Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"It was easy for Vladimir Putin. He could erase the past by hurling secret files into his KGB station’s furnace at the end of the Cold War. In the era of globalised corruption he has since helped to create, destroying the past is not so simple. Every bribe, every kickback to a crony, every transfer of d ...Show more
How The World Ran Out Of Everything by Peter S. Goodman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that b ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
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Category: Current Affairs
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
The Archipelago of Us: A Search for Our Identity in Australia’s Most Remote Territories by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
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Category: Current Affairs
A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Renee Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories o ...Show more
Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Russia by Mark Galeotti, Anna Arutunyan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The compelling, first-to-market story of the rise, fall and death of the Wagner Group's Evgeny Prigozhin, and what this tells us about the chaotic new direction of late Putinism, by the acclaimed author of A Short History of Russia. Evgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the w ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
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Category: Current Affairs
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' --Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism, and even antisemitism, when th ...Show more
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport by Michael Waters
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Category: Current Affairs
The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, ...Show more
The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy
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Category: Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back. Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy's words have lit a clear way through ...Show more
White Terror: A Neo-Nazi Killing Spree and the Global Rise of Homegrown Terrorists by Jacob Kushner
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Category: Current Affairs
In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany – in an engrossing global story that examines violence, modern racism and national trauma. Before the storming of the U.S. Capitol; before the mass shootings a ...Show more
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In An Age Of Conflict by William Ury
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Category: Current Affairs
The author of the world's best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with the world's toughest conflicts to offer a way out of the seemingly impossible problems of our time. Conflict is increasing everywhere, threatening everything we hold d ...Show more
Monsters - A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
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Category: Current Affairs
***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL 'Monsters is extraordi ...Show more