Toast - Climate Change Is Doing Enormous Harm. Why Do Many Australians Deny It? Can We Avoid the Worst Effects? by Ralph Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In eight chapters, Toast: describes the huge threat climate change poses to the world and to Australia in particular; explains why it is difficult to perceive; goes through the evidence that shows the scientists are right; describes the "war" of influence and ideas that has promoted climate science deni ...Show more
Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia: A Groundbreaking Collection of Torres Strait Islander Voices, Past and Present by Samantha Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"My people are expert navigators, adventurers, innovators, ambassadors, teachers, storytellers, performers, strategists, chefs and advocates for change. The blood runs deep when I reflect on the past and the present and imagine what our future might look like." -Leilani Bin-Juda What makes Zenadth Kes/ ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...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
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...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