The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us- other people's perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a ...Show more
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier
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Category: Current Affairs
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow Suddeutsche ...Show more
How to Vote Progressive in Australia: Labor or Green? by Dennis Altman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Red or Green? Traditionally, Australian progressives have supported the Australian Labor Party; increasingly, The Greens appeal. What are the key differences between the parties? Is greater collaboration desirable? Is it likely? Some progressives remain strongly committed to Labor or The Greens. Others ...Show more
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America by Jonathan Chait
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Category: Current Affairs
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded he ...Show more
Chronicles on Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Current Affairs
With Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty wrote a bestselling book that was widely agreed to be 'extraordinarily important' (Martin Wolf, Financial Times). His powerful, evidence-based analysis and solutions - including progressive wealth taxes to reduce inequality - were praised as much ...Show more
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Current Affairs
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course ...Show more
Tales From Boom Town: Western Australian Premiers from Brand to Barnett by Peter Kennedy
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Category: Current Affairs
Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy spent more than forty years observing eleven Premiers of Western Australia, across an extraordinary period of change in Western Australia's history, from 1970 to 2013. His insiders account reveals first-hand the issues linked with the jailing of two Premiers an ...Show more
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way by Steve Richards
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Category: Current Affairs
Something strange has been happening. All over the World, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in A ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: P.S.
Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010.
The Islamic Republic of Australia by Sami Shah
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What is Halal? A country bordering Shariahland, or a method of preparing food? Do the Five Pillars of Islam comply with modern building codes? Or are they simply a philosophy for living? And if Muslims first arrived in Australia as early as 1800, can they go back to where they came from?In this funny an ...Show more
Rogue Nation by Royce Kurmelovs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism. The ...Show more
China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon
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Category: Current Affairs
The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nation's financial system is a tangle of shadow banking entities, informal financ ...Show more