The Men Who Killed the News: The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy by Eric Beecher
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls - from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk - and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs. What's gone wrong with our media? Eric Beecher's answer is: its owners, ma ...Show more
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
Women Rising: The Forces That Hold Us Back. The Tools to Help Us Rise by Megan Dalla-Camina
$34.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It's time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It's time for women to rise. In Women Rising, you'll discover how to recognise and resist the very real forces of power that limit how you work and live as a woman. Are yo ...Show more
Make It Make Sense: From Shit You Should Care About's Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins by Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The debut book from the authors behind the global media sensation Shit You Should Care About.Shit You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram follow ...Show more
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social and financial fallout. The billionaire entrepreneur a ...Show more
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Zionism. When apartheid in South Africa ended, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keepin ...Show more
Birds Aren't Real: The true story of mass avian murder and the largest surveillance campaign in U.S. history by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history - and how to fight back.Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults.In the 1970s, the United States government kille ...Show more
The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without by John Oakes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A fascinating exploration of the unique history and biology of fasting - a practice resurging in popularity and an essential part of many health approaches, religions and philosophies. We fast all the time, even when we're not conscious of doing so. A fast manifests the idea of holding back, resisting t ...Show more
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
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From the beginning, humans have been wanderers. Our feet carried us out of Africa and propelled us to far-flung corners of the world, often through incredible feats of innovation and imagination. These explorations yielded great rewards: land and resources, food and knowledge. But in every landscape we ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other. We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighb ...Show more