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
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Compelling... this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book Review From the Recipient of the 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Updated wiith a new introduction by the author Called "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by ...Show more
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite and fascinating' Paul Collier, Guardian, on Why Nations Fail By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains h ...Show more
Oil Under Troubled Water by Bernard Collaery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged with conspiracy to breach the Intelligence Services Act 2001. He was forbidden from talking about the charges against him, but under parlia ...Show more
Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity by Scott Galloway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The New York Times bestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world. The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps betwe ...Show more
The Contrarian - Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business and politics Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater global impact than S ...Show more
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideologic ...Show more
Pandemedia - How Covid Changed Journalism by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang (eds)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
If journalism is the first draft of history, what will it say about Covid? The Covid-19 pandemic ripped through the world with no regard for borders, age, status or wealth. It was brutal in its impact and created a raft of new social norms. And without warning, the pandemic changed journalism, in some ...Show more
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life by Arianna Huffington
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and one of the most influential women in the world, has written a passionate call to arms, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world. She likens our drive for money and power to two legs of ...Show more
Most Dangerous Man In The World: The Inside Story On Julian Assange And WikiLeaks by Andrew Fowler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"The Most Dangerous Man in the World is the definitive account of WikiLeaks, threats against its existence and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets. Through interviews with Julian Assange, his inner circle and those who fell out with him, Andrew Fowler tells the story of how a man ...Show more