Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...Show more
Unfreedom of the Press by Levin, Mark R.
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered ...Show more
Changing Jobs : The Fair Go in the New Machine by Jim Chalmers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Redback Quarterly Ser.
For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids' futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this country?Jim Chalmers and Mike Quigley believe that bursts in technolo ...Show more
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future by Alec Ross
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As the market consolidates under fewer and larger companies, it's increasingly in the interest of private companies to behave like nations. And when the government is bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and culture wars, people begin to look to nimble, powerful companies to solve these problems - a ...Show more
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No one in a position of power wants to admit that the problem is linked to the arrival of several million migrants--most of them young men--from Muslim-majority countries. In Prey, the best-selling aut ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era- authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power ...Show more
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Elite by Douglas Rushkoff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse- they want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event- the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these m ...Show more
No Enemies, No Friends: Restoring Australia's Global Relevance by Allan Behm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How can Australia recalibrate its national security settings to meet future demands amid global disruption? Plicy expert Allan Behm offers practical ideas, imbued with optimismIs increased defence spending all that Australia needs to ensure its national security? How well placed are we to deal with glob ...Show more
The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.We' ...Show more
Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics by David Goodhart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years. Fifty years ago, people in leafy North London and people in working-class ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more