The Apology by Eve Ensler
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Changed the World," comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement. Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifet ...Show more
Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments by Ashley Hay (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres - from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions - hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature. While crim ...Show more
American Carnage - Behind the Scenes of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of Trump by Tim Alberta
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party--how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Tr ...Show more
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All by Robert E. Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that tech ...Show more
Glimmer of Hope by March For Our Lives
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. 100% of the authors' proceeds will benefit the March for Our Lives Foundation and the ongoing fight for sensibl ...Show more
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics by Richard H. Thaler, Richard H Thaler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015. Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look in ...Show more
Refugee Rights Policy Wrongs A Frank, Up-To-Date Guide by Experts by Jane McAdam; Fiona Chong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. The government seeks to `stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal. In this new book, Jane McAdam an ...Show more
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
Fascism - A Warning by Madeleine Albright
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
#1 New York Times Bestseller A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of stateA Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, "is someone who ...Show more
How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
Fascists Among Us by Jeff Sparrow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents. The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The murders were not random. They expressed a particular ideology, one that the alleged perpetrator desc ...Show more
Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics by David Goodhart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years. Fifty years ago, people in leafy North London and people in working-class ...Show more