Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age (HB) by Mary Pipher
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: How to flourish as we age
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age. Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. ...Show more
The Breakdown: How to Make Sense of Politics in a Messed-Up World by Tatton Spiller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We're in a time of enormous political engagement, but most of us are ill equipped to truly understand and debate the issues currently rocking our world. Instead, we become entrenched in our echo chambers, convinced that those with a different viewpoint are stupid, awful human beings whose actions must ...Show more
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
The Difference Identity Makes by Lawrence Bamblett (Editor); Fred Myers (Editor); Tim Rowse (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and things. But in what ways is the Indigenous/non-Indigenous distinction being used and understood? In The d ...Show more
The Dawn Prayer (Or How to Survive in a Secret Syrian Terrorist Prison) by Matthew Schrier
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"What is your name?" asked General Mohammad. "Matthew," I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means 'dead' in Arabic. On New Year's Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he'd been photographing the intense combat of the country's civil war. Just 45 minutes ...Show more
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortes ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
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
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the bloody war on drugs by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different p ...Show more
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after Tiananmen Square by Liao Yiwu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our t ...Show more
Secret: the Making of Australia's Security State by Brian Toohey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Government Powers
Australia is less secure than it has ever been and the greatest threat comes from our elected government. Political leaders increasingly promote secrecy, ignorance and fear to introduce new laws that undermine individual liberties and safety.It is a criminal offence to receive or publish a wide range of ...Show more
Walking Towards Thunder: The true story of a whistle-blowing cop who took on corruption and the church by Peter Fox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims ...Show more