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
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
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 The final book from David Graeber, the iconic intellectual, activist, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of free ...Show more
Refugee Rights Policy Wrongs A Frank, Up-To-Date Guide by Experts by Jane McAdam; Fiona Chong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. The government seeks to `stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal. In this new book, Jane McAdam an ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
$34.99 AUD
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
Choosing Openness: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Why global engagement is best for Australia by Andrew Leigh
$9.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
Across the developed world, global engagement has become a major political fault line. Populists say that we should hunker down in the face of difference, that trade is a zero-sum game, and that foreign investment will cost us in the long run. They say openness is the cause of the growing income gap. Th ...Show more
Dead in the Water: The AUKUS Delusion (Australian Foreign Affairs 20) by Jonathan Pearlman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's momentous decision to form a security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom that includes an ambitious, expensive and risky plan to acquire nuclear-power submarines - a move that will have far-reaching military and strategi ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs. Ours ...Show more