The Jakarta Option: Could Indonesia ever be an ally?; Australian Foreign Affairs 21 by Jonathan Pearlman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Jonathan Pearlman is the editor of Australian Foreign Affairs and is a correspondent for the Telegraph (UK) and the Straits Times (Singapore). He previously worked at the Sydney Morning Herald, covering foreign affairs and politics from Canberra and Sydney. He has worked as a correspondent in the Middle ...Show more
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyber-Psychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online by Mary Aiken
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, forensics and technology - comes a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behaviour. The average person now checks their phone over 200 times a day. That's a serious addiction - ...Show more
Evidence by Brook Andrew
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Evidence: Brook Andrew is an immersive installation and publication that draws on the rich and varied Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection to explore the theme of evidence. Brook Andrew is internationally recognised for his interdisciplinary practice that often interrogates knowledge systems, ...Show more
The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Here is the path–breaking book that rocketed a political philosophy into the forefront of the nation's consciousness, written in words whose vigor and relevance have not tarnished with age.
China Matters - Getting it Right for Australia by Bates Gill; Linda Jakobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready? Australia's prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class satisfied whi ...Show more
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ...Show more
The Sorrows of Mexico by Lydia Cacho et al.
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Over the last twelve years, as Mexico has become the epicentre of the international drug trade, more than one hundred journalists, a generation of writers, has been killed or disappeared. And not a single culprit has been jailed. There are vast areas of the country where no-one now dares to report from ...Show more
Drone Theory by Grégoire Chamayou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare. In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world. Drawing on philosophical debate, ...Show more
Lucky Peach Issue 23 : The Suburbs Issue by Chris (EDT) Peter (EDT); Ying David; Meehan Chang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Lucky Peach | Reading Level: General Adult
Lucky Peach is a quarterly journal of food and writing. Each issue focuses on a single theme, and explores that theme through essays, art, photography, and recipes. The theme of Lucky Peach Issue 23 is Suburbs.
Power Failure: The inside story of climate politics under Rudd and Gillard by Philip Chubb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of a wicked problem ... What should Australia do about climate change? A succession of leaders has tried to answer this question - and come unstuck. Politicians and public servants call it a "wicked" problem - one highly resistant to solution - and many approaches have been developed a ...Show more
Peace with Justice: Noam Chomsky in Australia by Clinton Fernandes
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 2011, cognitive scientist, philosopher & political activist Chomsky came to Australia to receive the Sydney Peace Prize. He delivered lectures & answered questions about economics, history, international relations, linguistics, philosophy, justice & more. This is an edited record of his t ...Show more
Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice by Cormac Cullinan
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Wild Law fuses politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient wisdom into a fascinating story. It has been seminal in informing and inspiring the global movement to recognise rights for Nature.