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
Puff Piece by John Safran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...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
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more
Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be...wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable,philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realis ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pengun Special
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult. From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have ...Show more
The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship by Allan Behm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious ...Show more