Waleed Aly (I Know This to Be True): On Sincerity, Compassion and Integrity by Waleed Aly; Geoff Blackwell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: I Know This to be True | Reading Level: new
One of Australia's leading commentators on national and international issues, Waleed Aly answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to him. Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project, a daily primetime television news ...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
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
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
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
$34.99 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 ...Show more
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...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.
Whiteley on Trial by Gabriella Coslovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
It was a cause cel bre- the biggest case of alleged art fraud to come before the Australian criminal justice system, a $4.5 million sting drawing in one of the country's most gifted and ultimately tragic artists, Brett Whiteley, a heroin addict who died alone in 1992.It started with suspicions raised ab ...Show more
The Chaser Annual 2017 by The Chaser
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
It's back, better than ever. Featuring a full wrap of all the news, sport, entertainment and Trump jokes from a year that will forever be remembered as "Oh my God, remember 2017?" The Chaser Annual 2017also features original writing by some of Australia's top comedy writers, with overviews of the year ...Show more
The Putin Interviews : Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin by Robert (FRW) Oliver (CON); Scheer Stone
$28.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Showtime Documentary Films
Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span ...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