Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Toxic Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of a band of hackers who were hired to fix Facebook - and came to question whether it was beyond saving.Facebook knew it had a problem. The company had been humiliated by headlines, painted as complicit in the election of Trump and in an assault on the global social fabric. Their stated ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...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
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
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
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
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant by Paul Cleary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating $19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aborig ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...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
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
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$24.99 AUD
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