The Taiwan Choice: Our Critical Dilemma: Australian Foreign Affairs 14 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the rising tensions over the future of Taiwan as China's pursuit of 'unification' pits it against the United States and US allies such as Australia.The Taiwan Choice looks at the growing risk of a catastrophic war and the outlook for Australia as i ...Show more
Lockdown by Chip Le Grand
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How does a city go from being the world’s most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Businesses were forcibly closed, classrooms shuttered, and community and social life relegated to an impersonal online world. To stop the spread of a virus, peopl ...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
Hard Labour: wage theft in the age of inequality by Ben Schneiders
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A startling investigation of how some of Australia's best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years. Whether it's at McDonald's, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billion ...Show more
She Said: The New York Times Bestseller by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
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Category: Current Affairs
On 5 October 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. Hollywood was talking as never before. Kantor and Twohey outmanoeuvred Harvey Weinstein, his team of defenders and private investigators, convincing some of the most famous women in t ...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
Trade Winds - A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Almost everything you consume, from your weekly shop to the Christmas presents you ordered online, arrived by cargo ship. Shipping is the engine of the world economy, transporting 11 billion tonnes of goods each year. Despite an environmental crisis, shipping emissions have doubled since 1990, producing ...Show more
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved ...Show more
Australia Breaks Apart by John Stapleton
$69.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
John Stapleton addresses the madness of the past few years elegantly and with an urgent clarity that puts most commentators - and all politicians and bureaucrats - to shame.Steve Waterson, Senior Editor, The Australian. The humanitarian crimes committed by Australian authorities against their own citize ...Show more
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