The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action. Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awar ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor, Saul Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Ja ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Outsiders by Mark Latham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Mark Latham is the original Outsider, a politician who rose to the very top of his profession but refused to be cowed by political correctness and refused to bend his knee to the leftist fads of the day. Outsiders is a thoughtfully curated collection of Mark's previously-published articles and thoughts ...Show more
Freedom's Salesman by David Leyonhjelm
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Collection of previously published and delivered articles and speeches covering: Becoming a poltician; balancing the Budget; tax and superannuation; minimum wage; free trade; child care and health care; the Nanny State; same-sex marriage; terrorism; free speech; environment and conservation, and much mo ...Show more
Candidates Disease by Peter Breen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In Candidates Disease, Peter Breen examines the 44th Australian Parliament (2013-2016) and the 45th Parliament (2016-2019) in light of the controversial 2018 leadership spill. He looks at the sickness in Australian politics that gave rise to boatloads of independents and minor parties three million prim ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more