Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate tha ...Show more
The Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$4.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more
That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back? by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic defic ...Show more
The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Bestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's strategic mission in the modern world.In The Grand Chessboard, renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first ...Show more
Safe: How to Stay Safe in a Dangerous World by Chris Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life. He leads you through a variety of situations including what ...Show more
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of 2017 "An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our ...Show more
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars, this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016'The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events' New York Review of BooksIn the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the C. ...Show more
My Story (Audio CD) by Julia Gillard
$49.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Here, in her own words, Julia Gillard reveals what life was really like as Australia's first female prime minister. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three days for you to jud ...Show more
People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West by Waleed Aly
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
No two civilisations have spoken so many words about each other in recent years as those of Islam and the West. And no two seem to have communicated less. People Like Us confronts the themes that define this chasm head-on: women, jihad, secularism, terrorism, reformation and modernity. Its piercing exam ...Show more
Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How One Journalist Exposed the World's Most Powerful Media Mogul by Nick Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Since 2008, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly - determined, driven, brilliant - to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International. This book now brings us the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. Ho ...Show more
Politics Now: The Best of David Rowe by David Rowe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A riveting collection from Australia's finest and most instantly recognisable political cartoonist. This first and long-awaited collection throws us into the grotesque, malformed, and subterranean world that is Rowe's vision of politics now. Enter at your own risk. Featuring all the madness and downrigh ...Show more
China Dependence - Australia's New Vulnerability by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia's status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security. China Dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic and diplomatic ...Show more