Reconnected by Andrew Leigh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Friends are good for your health. The strength of your social relationships is a remarkably good predictor of how long you will live. Strong social connections also make communities more resilient, efficient and satisfying. But today Australians have fewer close friends and local connections than in the ...Show more
What Iranians Want by Arash Azizi
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to the streets across Iran, se ...Show more
The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by John Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Mind-expanding essays on modern life and the human experience in the first non-fiction work by #1 internationally bestselling author John Green - one of the world's most beloved novelists.A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 inter ...Show more
Energy Security by Roland Dannreuther
$35.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil fuels. It is easy to see why energy ...Show more
Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A tour de force.' -- Professor Rodney Tiffen Beforenewspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. Thismagisterial book revealswho owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield politicalpower. ...Show more
Compromised by Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
$69.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER How could General Electric--perhaps America's most iconic corporation--suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace? This is the definitive history of General Electric's epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall. Si ...Show more
The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent events in the Ukraine, and gives us the fullest and m ...Show more
Disorder Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson
$43.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new mone ...Show more
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book." SIMON REEVE by Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising the individual majesty, the complexity, the beauty, ...Show more
Putin's World Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world--and increased Russia's status on the global stage. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage ...Show more
Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity by Raina MacIntyre
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.In Dark Winter, world-leading epidemiologist Professor Raina MacIntyre navigates the past, present and future of pandemics and biosecurity. MacIntyre exam ...Show more
Revealing Secrets an Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence & the Advent of Cyber by Clare Birgin, John Blaxland
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation's efforts to reveal the secrets of others. What is Australian signals intelligence? Why do we have a national signals intelligence agency and why are our three armed services involved? What do they all do and why is it c ...Show more