Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny of Isra ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more
The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of mo ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
Co-Intelligence - Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Consumer AI arrived with a bang in November 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT. Within four months it hit one billion users, and media pundits were forecasting the end of jobs and a knowledge revolution. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT really meant - after millions of ...Show more
How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An authoritative and myth-busting analysis that tells us why we're wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate emergency will not lead to mass migration. Border restrictions have actually produced more migration. These statements might sound like they completely contra ...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
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
Adults In The Room - My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famouseconomist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.Varoufak ...Show more
Vanity Fair's Women on Women by Radhika Jones (Editor); David Friend (Editor)
$52.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama. And two Ma ...Show more
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why bookstores matter and how we can helpCan bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and the source of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our commun ...Show more