The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers by Richard Harris
$38.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Diving doctor on the Thai Cave Rescue (now a Netflix series) and former joint Australian of the Year explores the stories of other people who regularly risk their lives and what we can learn from their expertise. ‘Harry’ Harris – Thai Cave Rescuer, joint Australian of the Year – does something for fun t ...Show more
Growing Up Asian in Australia by Alice Pung (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Growing Up
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is h ...Show more
Practice: Journalism, Essays and Criticism by Guy Rundle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Known for his wild wit and irreverent commentary, Guy Rundle is one of Australia's most virtuosic minds. Practice distils his best writing on politics, culture, class and more. In it, Rundle roves the campaign trails of Obama, Palin and Trump; rides the Amtrak around a desolate America; bails up Bob Ka ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and two ways to stop themThe truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books ...Show more
The Worst Is yet to Come - A Survival Guide to Post-Capitalism by Peter Fleming
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Capitalism is about to commit suicide and is threatening to take us down with it. But will it give way to a grand social utopia or the beginning of a new dark age... albeit WiFi enabled? The Worst is Yet to Come explores the disturbing possibility that the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism isn't g ...Show more
A Life in Words: Collected writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon. 'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age 'He's been called Australia's Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his ...Show more
Are We Asian yet?: History vs Geography - Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 5 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia?s struggle to define its place in Asia as it balances its historic ties to the West with its geography. Are We Asian Yet? explores Australia?s changing population, outlook and identity as it adjusts to the Asian Century. David Walker- 'Gr ...Show more
About a Girl: A Mother's Powerful Story of Raising her Transgender Child by Rebekah Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Transgender | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 2000, Rebekah Robertson gave birth to twin boys, George and Harry. But as they grew older, their preferences began to show, and by the age of three it was clear Georgie was drawn to anything that was pretty or had a skirt that could swirl. Before long Georgie began to insist that she was a girl and b ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Podcasting is hailed for its intimacy and authenticity in an age of mistrust and disinformation. This portable audio format is hugely popular, with journalists, entertainers, corporates, celebrities, artists, activists and hobbyists all dipping a toe in the podcast pond.But while it is relatively easy t ...Show more