Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews (HB) by Sam McAlister
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Sam McAlister is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew described as 'a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion'. She is many things beside- the first in her family to go to university; a trained barrister; a single mum; a master of pers ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
The Carbon Almanac by Seth Godin
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not o ...Show more
The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East: Iran, Palestine and Beyond by Sune Rasmus C. Elling Haugbolle
$59.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Radical Histories of the Middle East Ser.
The pivotal years that laid the foundations for our times in the Middle East and the world In the latter half of the twentieth century, a revolutionary idea promised to upend the global order. Anti-imperialist militancy, bolstered by international solidarity, would lead to not only the national liberati ...Show more
Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World by Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Offers hope and good sense in equal measure' Ian Bremmer 'A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world' Sheryl Sandberg Problems are mounting. We face sputtering growth, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, poor policy responses, inc ...Show more
The Art of the Impossible - A Blog History of the Election of Donald J. Trump As President by Steven Kates
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History by Stephen D. King
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets, i ...Show more
2020: World of War by Paul Cornish
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the Arctic trigger the military response called for in the NATO treaty? Will the simultaneous Chinese cyber-attack on the Pentagon cripple the world's biggest military machine? Who's arming the refugees ...Show more
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 (HB) by John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ...Show more