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
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
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
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
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era. 'How to find the right words to frame this horror? How to understand why men do what they do to women? How to comprehend this malign force that seems to seep from the male psyche and ...Show more
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
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero; Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Well Hello: Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3 by Leigh Sales
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 comes a smart, hilarious and heartfelt book about friendship, the vagaries of life and culture, and everything in between. In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started a rambling conversation tha ...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
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