How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$24.99 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 part ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Voice of Russia Radio and heard that the Kre ...Show more
The Future Is Now - Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's Technologies by Bob McDonald
$58.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of: CBC's "27 Canadian books we can't wait to read in September" CBC's "60 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch for in fall 2022"Toronto Star's "40-plus books we're most looking forward to this season" Is a global pandemic what it took to show us that saving our planet is possible? In t ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
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Category: Current Affairs
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Ame ...Show more
The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt
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Category: Current Affairs
The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of mo ...Show more
Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell by Lucie Morris-Marr
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The dramatic story of the extraordinary trial of the third most senior Catholic cleric in the world for child sex abuse, and the conviction that sent ripples around the world.
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more
Merchants of Truth: Inside the War for Control of the News by Jill Abramson
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Category: Current Affairs
Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. Drawing on revelatory access, Abramson takes us behind the scenes at four media tit ...Show more
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matt Huber
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Category: Current Affairs
The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will take a class struggle to solve. In this ground breaking class analysis, Matthew T. Huber argues ...Show more
Pell Contra Mundum by Fr Robert A Sirico (Edited by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE: the text in this book appears first in English, with all subsequent text being the same content, but in Italian, then Spanish, then French. The English text runs from pages iii to 52. Pages 52 to 239 are of the same text, but not in English. The world groans and the Church stumbl ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
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Category: Current Affairs
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Prison Journal, Volume 1: The Cardinal Makes His Appeal by George Cardinal Pell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Prison Journal Ser.
"Innocent!" That final verdict came after George Cardinal Pell endured a gruelling four years of accusations, investigations, trials, public humiliations, and more than a year of imprisonment after being convicted by an Australian court of a crime he did not commit. Led off to jail in handcuffs, follow ...Show more