The Demagogue's Playbook - The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump by Eric A. Posner
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What Happens to Democracy When a Demagogue Comes to Power? "It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book." --Bob Bauer, Former Chief Counsel to President Barack Obama What--and who--is a demagogue? How did America's Founders envision the presid ...Show more
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
‘When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down'Misha Glenny, author of McMafia‘A powerful, appalling, and stunningly reported exposé … It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true'Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money ‘Read Kleptopia now'Roberto Saviano, bestselling author of Gomor ...Show more
F**k Fast Fashion - 101 Ways to Change How You Shop and Help Save Our Earth by TEAM, THE F
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Did you know that over 300,000 tonnes of clothing are sent to landfill in the UK alone every year? And that the industry's carbon emissions are bigger than the world's flight and shipping footprints combined? But, it's OK... YOU CAN MAKE A CHANGE In this book, you'll find 101 simple tips and tricks you ...Show more
Women Are the Future of Islam by Sherin Khankan
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Category: Current Affairs
The future of Islam is female Named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016 Sherin Khankan is one of the very few female imams in the Western World. In addition she has founded the first mosque for women in Europe. In this urgent manifesto this remarkable woman challenges the idea that Islam should be defin ...Show more
Aspiration and Anxiety by Christina Ho
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The children of Asian migrants are often perceived to be perfect students: ambitious, studious and compliant. They are remarkably successful—routinely outperforming other students in exams, dominating selective school intakes, and disproportionately winning places at prestigious universities. While thei ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics by Katharine Murphy
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about Scott Morrison, and where is he taking Australia? Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the res ...Show more
When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; Asha Bandele
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Narrating her own work, Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the salient moments of her life that led her to become a founder of Black Lives Matter...pain, frustration, and joy emblazon] each word she utters." -- AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversationT ...Show more
Marking Time - Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood
$75.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America's prison system.More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities; it also exposes the ...Show more
The Velvet Rope Economy - How Inequality Became Big Business by Nelson D. Schwartz
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Category: Current Affairs
A new and gripping investigation into the rise of the virtual velvet rope economy.
Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia by Ben Bland
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: LOWY INSTITUTE PAPER
Although he has dominated Indonesian politics for years, President Joko Widodo remains a beguiling figure. He has consistently defied both his sternest critics and his strongest supporters. A brilliant instinctive politician, Jokowi, as he is known, was resoundingly re-elected in 2019. However, he has s ...Show more
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans
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Category: Current Affairs
If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now."This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man.The history of ...Show more
Democracy for Sale - Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'If you're concerned about the health of British democracy, read this book - it is thorough, gripping and vitally important' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland. Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. Politicians lie gleefully, making wild ...Show more