Knowledge Wars by Peter Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Climate scientists have warned that we need to change our behaviour in ways that may be inconvenient and threaten the commercial status quo. The result has been a polarising division in society and a sustained attack on their research. In The Knowledge Wars, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty makes a pass ...Show more
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-y ...Show more
Coming of Age in the War on Terror: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'One minute you're a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them? We now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who have grown up only ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Did you know: women are 59% more likely than men to receive an incorrect diagnosis when experiencing heart attack. Or: women are more susceptible to pain medications than men, leading to higher rates of addiction because doctors simply prescribe pain medication in the same way. Or: among alcoholics, wom ...Show more
She Said: The New York Times Bestseller by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
On 5 October 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. Hollywood was talking as never before. Kantor and Twohey outmanoeuvred Harvey Weinstein, his team of defenders and private investigators, convincing some of the most famous women in t ...Show more
The Price of Fortune: The untold story of being James packer by Damon Kitney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty; Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate a ...Show more
The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence for war crimes and torture. In the aftermath Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of Wikileaks, found himself at the center of a media storm, accused of hacking and later sexu ...Show more
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river sy ...Show more
Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians by Paul Frijters, Cameron Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The shocking story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, and managed to rob the majority of ordinary Australians of half our wealth. 'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be sho ...Show more
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan (editors)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modern ...Show more