Voices of us: The independents' movement transforming Australian democracy by Tim Dunlop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Australian politics is changing.The two-party system is disappearing. The balance of power is shifting, and while it feels fragile now, we may just be on the precipice of a transformative era for democracy in Australia.On 21 May 2022, Australia voted, not just for change in individual seats, but a compl ...Show more
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
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
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
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
Everybody Lies - What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth ...Show more
The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern Age by Iain Overton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
We live in the age of the suicide bomber. The suicide bomb itself takes more lives than any other type of explosive weapon. Moreover, in the last 5 years more people have been killed by suicide attacks than at any other time in history. How has this descent deep into the heart of terror escalated in suc ...Show more
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the G ...Show more
This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerants ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more