Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"It was easy for Vladimir Putin. He could erase the past by hurling secret files into his KGB station’s furnace at the end of the Cold War. In the era of globalised corruption he has since helped to create, destroying the past is not so simple. Every bribe, every kickback to a crony, every transfer of d ...Show more
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon by Jessica Mudditt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 - just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a h ...Show more
POWER: A woman's guide to living and leading without apology by Kemi Nekvapil
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'This book is a miraculous event.' - Elizabeth Gilbert, from the foreword A transformative path for women to reclaim their power in a world all too eager to strip it away Women know what it's like to feel powerless. We have had power diminished, taken from us and used over us. Yet the strongest, most en ...Show more
Towards Reproductive Justice by Ronli Sifris
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In June 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that overturned Roe v Wade, declaring that the American Constitution did not protect the right to abortion. Several US states immediately banned abortion, while others were quick to enact restrictive regulation. This decision sent shoc ...Show more
Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience by Herman Narula
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A definitive guide to the metaverse- why it's important, why it matters to society, and how to create a metaverse that works for us A definitive guide to the metaverse- why it's important, why it matters to society, and how to create a metaverse that works for all of us The metaverse is a vision of how ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century wa ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
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Category: Current Affairs
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more