Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Our future hangs on the success of the Oxford vaccine.This is the story of its creation, its makers and how science will ultimately beat the virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within ...Show more
An Insider's Plague Year by Peter Doherty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An illuminating glimpse into the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic from Australia's most prominent 'insider' In An Insider's Plague Year, Nobel laureate and prominent COVID-19 authority Professor Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020-February 20 ...Show more
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World by Ian Goldin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Developme ...Show more
Crime & Justice - A guide to Criminology 6th ed by Marmo M et al
$116.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Queens of Animation - The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures).From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocc ...Show more
Class in Australia by Threadgold Steven
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a ‘lucky country’ with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. ...Show more
The Square and the Tower Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling."--The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book...In 400 pages you will have ...Show more
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
Crooked Alleys: Deliverance and Despair in Iran by Soraya Lennie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
By 2013, Iranians were suffocating, as though the streets had become narrower, the buildings taller, the dirty air thicker. In electing Hassan Rouhani, they chose a new, reformist leader, burying the days when a Holocaust-denying president had pushed Iran to the edge of economic collapse and conflict. B ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. The origins of Covid-19 are shrouded in mystery. Scientists and government officials insisted, for a year and a half, that the virus had a natural ori ...Show more
The Bigger Picture Book of Amazing Dyslexics and the Jobs They Do by Kate Power; Kathy Iwanczak Forsyth; Paul Smith (Foreword by)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A beautifully designed book (packed with photos) full of wise words and encouragement from successful dyslexics working in comedy, architecture, law, fashion and many other amazing (and achievable!) careers. Honest about the challenges of dyslexia (like problems or embarrassment at school), while showin ...Show more
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