Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This journal of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv.
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
Zelensky The Frontline President by Andrew L. Urban, Chris Mcleod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The message from the free world to Russian President Putin has always been clear: Leave Ukraine alone... get out! What Russia thought would be a three-day hit-and-run mission to oust the Ukraine government of Volodymyr Zelensky was an abject failure. The message from the free world to Russian President ...Show more
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
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Category: Current Affairs
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: Current Affairs
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new b ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Current Affairs
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
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Category: Current Affairs
A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete'Mo is an exquisite writer and speaker with deep expertise of technology . . . ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
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Category: Current Affairs
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Sex Talk: A Feminist Discussion of Sexual Empowerment by Olympe de Gê, Stéphanie Estournet
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Category: Current Affairs
Sex Talk has a clear mission – breaking the taboo of taboos – by opening up the discussion of sex and desire in a clear, engaging and motivational way. The book takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery through nine chapters, discussing everything from self-stimulation, exploring sexual orientatio ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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Category: Current Affairs
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
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Category: Current Affairs
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
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Category: Current Affairs
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more