Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
Almost Perfekt: How Sweden Works And What We Can Learn From It by David Crouch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Sweden: A country that defies the laws of economic gravity. A land with high wages, strong unions and generous welfare. A dream location for business and a bastion of social responsibility, coming out on top for childcare, equality and quality of life. What can we learn from it? Having lived in Sweden f ...Show more
The Tyranny of Virtue - Identity Politics and the Culture of Complaint by Robert Boyers
$54.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, a thought-provoking volume of nine essays that elegantly and fiercely addresses recent developments in American culture and argues for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition. Written from the perspective of a libera ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more
The United States of Trump - How the President Really Sees America by Bill O'Reilly
$42.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research Readers around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing series-- ...Show more
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History by Stephen D. King
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Category: Current Affairs
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets, i ...Show more
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thri ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
We are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
$16.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut o ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Current Affairs
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
Free Schools by David Gillespie
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Category: Current Affairs
David Gillespie has six kids. When it came time to select high schools, he thought it worth doing some investigation to assess the level of advantage his kids would enjoy if he spent the required $1.3 million to send them all to private schools. Shockingly, the answer was: none whatsoever. Intrigued, Da ...Show more