Radical Heart Three Stories Make Us One by Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Neither Indigenous nor white, Shireen Morris is both outside observer and instrumental insider in the fight for Indigenous rights. Shaped by her family's Indian and Fijian migrant story, Morris is a key player in what many consider the greatest moral challenge of our nation- constitutional recognition o ...Show more
The Future of Everything: Big, Audacious Ideas for a Better World by Tim Dunlop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are felt on all corners of the earth. It could give all of us a better quality of life and new, more cooperative ways of living. Or it could further concentrate the world's wea ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
Put Your Damn Phone Down by Glenn Manton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
At a party? You're on your phone. Lying in bed? You're on your phone. Out for dinner? You're on your phone. In class, on the train, at a concert, in the gym: phone, phone, phone, phone. And what's wrong with that? Everyone else is doing it. But do you ever get the feeling that while you're glued to you ...Show more
Anti-Social Media: Conventional Militaries in the Digital Battlespace by Kevin Foster
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How the growing presence of social media is impacting the military and warOver the past decade the gravitational centre of contemporary conflict has shifted from the physical battlefield to the online battlespace, where the ingenuity of non-state actors has vexed governments and tested their militaries. ...Show more
The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour c ...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
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more