Fighting for Our Lives - The History of a Community's Response to AIDS by Nick Cook
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Fighting For Our Lives is the inspirational story of communities directly affected by the AIDS crisis. Against a harrowing backdrop of illness and death, fear and anger, hate and discrimination, they bravely took action. During the darkest years of the epidemic, marginalised communities – mostly gay men ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Griffith Review 80 Creation Stories by Culver Carody
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The capacity to tell stories — along with language and the ability to create art — is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we’ve forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in th ...Show more
Successful English 2 Student book (2nd Edition) by Amanda Ford
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Successful Ser.
Skillworks, Second Edition is a fully revised weekly homework program. Each week students complete a thematically based, double-sided worksheet and build their knowledge and skills in grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary and comprehension. Each worksheet contains a clear explanation of aparticular ...Show more
Fly!: Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 by Richard de Crespigny
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 2010, thousands of feet in the air above Singapore, the 469 passengers aboard QF32 found themselves in a crisis that no one could have anticipated when the A380 in which they were flying suffered a catastrophic explosion.Captain Richard de Crespigny and his crew confronted extraordinary challenges ov ...Show more
Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Ov ...Show more
The Year Everything Changed: 2001 by Phillipa McGuinness
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
On New Year's Eve 2001, with her husband by her side, Phillipa McGuinness buried her son. They stood with a young priest in Chua Chu Kang Cemetery and watched a small coffin go into the ground. Later that night, shattered, they sat looking out at the hundreds of ships waiting to come into port in Singap ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Discoveries by independent researchers have dramatically challenged understanding of ancient Egypt and raised questions about our past. This text explores why researchers have now been forbidden to do further work and how and why the Egyptian government is working with NASA.
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, has been found guilty of five sexual crimes against children.Updated edition. He is the most senior Catholic figure in the world to be charged by police and convicted of child sex offences. The abuse involved choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick's ...Show more
2028... and Australia has gone to hell in a handbasket by Ken Saunders
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death.The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world g ...Show more