Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
The Skripal Files - Putin, Poison and the New Spy War by Mark Urban
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' John Le CarréA Sunday Times Best Book of 2018 Agent. Prisoner. Target.Who is Sergei Skripal? 4 March 2018, Salisbury, England.A man and his daughter are found slumped on a bench, poisoned by the deadly nerve agent Novichok. He was a ...Show more
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: 11-Sep
* "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." The Times "Although many years have passed since 9/11, this book, told with such immediacy, brings so vividly back to mind the shock of that day, and why it continues to shape the tragic history that has followed." Lawrence Wright, author of T ...Show more
Don't Be Evil - How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world, but the ...Show more
Breaking The Banks by Joseph Healy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What was once an industry built on trust, professionalism and value, has become synonymous with greed, complacency and everything that has gone wrong with capitalism. So how did Australian banks, which avoided much of the aftermath of the GFC, lose their way and become engulfed in scandal?Breaking the B ...Show more
The Outpost: (FTI) by Jake Tapper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice' Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild At 5:58 ...Show more
Justice Denied by John Suter Linton; Bill Hosking
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Mira Ser.
In this tell-all book, discover how the justice system works and why, at times, the innocent are convicted and the guilty set free. Bill Hosking looks back at his career as a criminal barrister in a candid account of his time at the bar. He tells the true story behind some of his most famous cases, inc ...Show more
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thri ...Show more
Saving the Last Rhinos: The Life of a Frontline Conservationist by Grant Fowlds; Graham Spence
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Each year, more than one thousand rhinoceroses are killed - in South Africa alone. There are fewer than 18,000 white rhinos and only 5,000 black rhinos left alive in the wild. The situation with regard to this corrupt, illegal war on wildlife is clearly critical. And what are rhinos killed for? Their ho ...Show more
Can We Trust America: Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 8 Australian Foreign Affairs 8 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The eighth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the changing status of the United States as its dominance in the Asia-Pacific faces challenge from China and its "America First" foreign policy marks a shift away from global engagement. Can We Trust America? looks at the uncertainties for Austral ...Show more
Drone (Object Lessons) by Adam Rothstein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toy ...Show more
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate by James Verini
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millennia-old, Mosul was a birthplace of Western culture but also infamous for its cruelty, from the Assyrians to Saddam Hussein. Through the eyes of soldiers and f ...Show more