Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In this book, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza ...Show more
Planet Jackson - Power, greed & unions by Brad Norington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Kathy Jackson was hailed as a heroine for blowing the whistle on the million-dollar fraud of Michael Williamson, the corrupt boss of the Health Services Union. While remaining steadfast in this very public ordeal, she endured bitter personal attacks from enemies in the Labor Party and the union movement ...Show more
The Phoenix Years : A History of Modern China by Madeleine O'Dea
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
If there is one lesson that can be drawn from our current times it is that the instinct be true to oneself, and to live an authentic life is a universal one, even in the face of autocracy or terrorism. From a young girl agitating for education in Pakistan, to idealistic filmmakers in Iran, from punk poe ...Show more
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Erik M Naomi;Conway Oreskes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small y ...Show more
Baby Boom: How it Got That Way...and it Wasn't My Fault...and I'll Never Do it Again by P. J. O'Rourke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. ...Show more
DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
$23.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Best-selling humorist P.J. O'Rourke is back with his latest political masterpiece, DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards. Using his signature wit and keen observational skills, O'Rourke reflects on his forty year career as a political commentator, spanning his addled hippie youth to his current s ...Show more
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Just over a decade into the new millennium, America is beset by a sense of crisis. The seismic shifts that occurred in the space of a generation have created a country of winners and losers, leaving the social contract in pieces. In "The Unwinding", George Packer narrates the story of America over the p ...Show more
Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Amie Jonathan; Parnes Allen
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: General Adult
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begi ...Show more
The Impulse Society - What's Wrong with Getting What We Want by Paul Roberts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What do soaring debt, endemic narcissism, road rage, political attack ads and killer drones share in common? All are symptoms of a society that moves, reflexively and relentlessly, to exploit the fastest, most efficient means to any end, without regard to cost. This is the 'impulse society' in which we ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 55: A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth by Noel Pearson
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia's original peoples? Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: 'We have a committed prime minister ...Show more
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
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Category: Current Affairs
John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s w ...Show more
Dreaming Too Loud by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Christopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as 'the greatest living Australian' and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him 'an Australian who has had a vowel transplant'. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republic ...Show more