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 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
$22.99 AUD
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