Big Book of Conspiracy Theories by Tim Rayborn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Did America fake the moon landing? Was 9/11 an inside job? What is the government hiding at Area 51? From secret societies to aliens and assassinations, decode history's greatest cover-ups and decide for yourself. Humanity has long been obsessed with the unexplained, and we have ascribed many mysteries ...Show more
Engaging China: How Australia Can Lead the Way Again by Jamie Reilly (Editor); Jingdong Yuan (Editor); Gareth Evans (Foreword by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Public and Social Policy Ser.
As the strategic rivalry between the United States and China rapidly deepens, growing distrust and fears of China are once again shaping Australian media coverage and public discourse, with potent implications for Australia's China policy. At this crucial historical moment, Engaging China offers a full ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A devastating exposé.' Mail on SundayThe world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average partner salary rivals that of a Premier League footballer. But how has the seemingly humdrum profession of acco ...Show more
Firefighting - The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons by Ben S. Bernanke; Timothy F. Geithner; Henry M. Paulson Jr.
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now. In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the lessons ...Show more
Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements and What We Can Do About Them by Jamil Jivani
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Using his own story as a jumping off point, Jivani discusses why it's so often young men who fall into patterns of violence and extremism, and how we can bring change to this ever increasing global problem. Why Young Men is not just a powerful and beautifully written non-fiction narrative book, it's a b ...Show more
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
Addressing Modern Slavery by Justine Nolan; Martijn Boersma
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more