Just Money: Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap by Royce Kurmelovs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The debt business is booming. Millions of Australians grapple with credit cards, mortgages and student debt repayments each day. As the result of a car crash without insurance, investigative journalist Royce Kurmelovs finds himself among them. When a debt collector knocks on his door, he embarks on a j ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become--with illustrations throughout. In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye ...Show more
The Feminism Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by Lucy Mangan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organizations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this guide is an essential introduction to feminism. The Feminism Book is a complete study of feminism. Trace the subject from its origins, through the suffrage campaigns of the late 19 ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us--humans, animals, trees--find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning ...Show more
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings; Erin Meyer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies. There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it ge ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more
Michaela: The Power of Culture by Katharine Birbalsingh
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Michaela Community School in Brent, London is one of the most talked-about schools in the UK. In this follow-up to the best-selling book Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Teachers, their teachers further explain how their relentlessly high expectations are helping young people to get great results and be success ...Show more
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It?
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species. Yet modern-day technology and capitalism have supercharged our short-termist tendencies and trapped ...Show more