Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell
$4.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world . . . this prospect frightens me much more than bombs' Fascism and Democracycollects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the p ...Show more
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to ...Show more
White Terror: A Neo-Nazi Killing Spree and the Global Rise of Homegrown Terrorists by Jacob Kushner
$34.99 AUD
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 ...Show more
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition by John Perkins
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions fo ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action. Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awar ...Show more
Make Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again by Mark Swivel
$20.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again(TM) is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond preserving itself. He advocates a new populism that's ...Show more
Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Having been accused of antisemitism for writing an account of the injustices she witnessed in Palestine, Rebecca Ruth Gould embarks on a journey to understand how the fight against antisemitism has been weaponized not to defend civil rights, but to deny them. In this exploration, she comes to a broader ...Show more
Equal: A Story of Women, Men & Money by Carrie Gracie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforc ...Show more
How to Think Like a Coder Without Even Trying by Jim Christian
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Without Even Trying!
A back-to-basics guide on coding for absolute beginners, whether adults or children - no prior experience required! Coding is set to change the way we work and the skills we will need in the future. For those who know nothing about coding, getting to grips with the basics is daunting. Too many of the be ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
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Category: Current Affairs
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I d ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more