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
James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media by James Acaster
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when ...Show more
The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics by Margot Saville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville, this is the fourth book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. In the 2 ...Show more
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Writings from Manus Prison
Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and f ...Show more
Progress and Parasites by Douglas Carswell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Politics has never been more unpredictable. Radical populists and insurgents have turned politics-as-usual on its head. Progress and Parasites explores how we got here, where we are heading and what we can do about it. Douglas Carswell argues that these insurgencies are a reaction against the emergence ...Show more
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the bloody war on drugs by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different p ...Show more
A Warning by Anonymous
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
The Next Great Migration - The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Rich with eclectic research and on-the-ground reporting, Shah's book presents us with a dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific histor ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
Griffith Review 72: States of Mind by Hay Ashley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Ask yourself this: What state am I in? And how much is it a reaction to the state of the world today?Griffith Review 72: States of Mind examines the ways we think about our psychological, existential and political condition. Anxiety and depression are on the rise in Australia and across the globe. Digit ...Show more