Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change by Scott Galloway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here.We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhe ...Show more
Defending Women's Spaces by Karen Ingala Smith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Who counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a particular boiling point emerges through conflicting demands over women's spaces. Which should govern access ...Show more
Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer by The Secret Barrister
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
<b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week‘</b> Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir <i>Nothing But The Truth</i> tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, ...Show more
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Real World Ser.
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner ...Show more
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
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods by Margaret Cook
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When floods devastated South East Queensland in 2011, who was to blame? Despite the inherent risk of living on a floodplain, most residents had pinned their hopes on Wivenhoe Dam to protect them, and when it failed to do so, dam operators were blamed for the scale of the catastrophic events that followe ...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
In This Economy? - How Money and Markets Really Work by Kyla Scanlon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon." --Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money An illustrated guide to the mad math and terrible terminology of economics, from one of the internet's favorite financial educators. The stuff you really need to know ...Show more
Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
‘I’m going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?’ When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz asked her colleagues this question in 2011, she had no idea that less than a decade later it would inspire a global movement of 250 million people in 177 countries to reduce their plastic use. Plastic Free tells the incr ...Show more
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
$25.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Open Media Ser.
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggle ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more