What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story by Mark Edele
$32.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An examination of the causes of the Russian invasion and its implications for the future In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conf ...Show more
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A biting satire of corporate power - how it works, how it harms us and what we can do about it. Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it. The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to deny the scientific facts - ar ...Show more
Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016 - 2021 by Thomas Piketty
$26.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century"What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Ye ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide. In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
The Consultancy Conundrum: The Hollowing Out of the Public Sector by Andrew Jaspan, Lachlan Guselli
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In mid-2023, Australia was rocked by a scandal surrounding the local affiliate of business management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers. The crisis raised serious concerns about the role of consultancy and audit firms within our public service, and caused governments to re-evaluate their relationships ...Show more
The State Is the Enemy - Essays on Kurdish Liberation and Racial Justice by James Kelman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Kelman Library
Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemylay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants,asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of "a lowerorder." Drawing parallels between atrocities committed against the Kurdsby the Turkish State, ...Show more
The Real Anthony Fauci: Big Pharma's Global War on Democracy, Humanity, and Public Health (HB) by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
$64.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Children's Health Defense Ser.
When the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since November 1984 and the leading architect of "agency capture"--the corporate seizure of America's public health agencies by the pharmaceutical industry--happen to be the same man, conflicts of interest arise. Wear ...Show more
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Kim Jong Un | Reading Level: very good
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
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Category: Current Affairs
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Current Affairs
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more