An Indigenous Voice to Parliament: Considering a Constitutional Bridge by Frank Brennan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Australians will soon be asked to vote in a referendum asking 'Do you support an alteration to the Constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?'Frank Brennan has been an advocate for Indigenous rights for 40 years. Here he shows the difficult path travelled by Aboriginal ...Show more
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Turned On the West by Catherine Belton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The hacking of the 2016 US elections. Sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine the West. This rigorous and revelatory book explains how this happened, Putin's rise to power, a ...Show more
Deadliest Enemy - Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm; Mark Olshaker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"A powerful and necessary book that looks at the threat of emerging diseases with clarity and realism, and offers us not just fear but plans."---Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains ...Show more
Clear Bright Future - A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection of base instincts? Or will we soon be supplanted by algorithms and A.I. anyway? In Clear Bright Future, Paul Mason calls for a radical, impassioned defense ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
How to Sell A Massacre by Peter Charley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TVIn 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary entitled How to Sell a Massacre. The result of an audacious three-year infiltration of the US National Rifle Association, the do ...Show more
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News by Rob Brotherton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning newspaper. A time when the only way to see what was happening around the world was to catch the latest newsreel at the movies. Times have changed. Now we're inundated. The news is no longer con ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives.Joseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how globalization was hurting those it was meant to help. Many of its predictions came true, and it ...Show more
Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A masterful and eye-opening examination of Trump and the coercive control tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters written by "an authority on breaking away from cults...an argument that...bears consideration as the next election cycle heats up" (Kirkus Reviews). Since the 2016 ...Show more
Angrynomics by Lonergan BLYTH
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and eve ...Show more
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Zero day- a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant and shut down the power ...Show more
The Taiwan Choice: Our Critical Dilemma: Australian Foreign Affairs 14 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the rising tensions over the future of Taiwan as China's pursuit of 'unification' pits it against the United States and US allies such as Australia.The Taiwan Choice looks at the growing risk of a catastrophic war and the outlook for Australia as i ...Show more