Red Roulette - An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously rea ...Show more
Money Code Space - Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation by Jack Parkin
$35.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Oxford Studies Digital Politics Ser.
Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic global economy--a world free from hierarchy and cont ...Show more
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democ by Frank Vogl
$56.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure ...Show more
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A shocking insight into what is really happening to China's Uyghurs. In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, ...Show more
Those Who Can, Teach - What It Takes to Make the Next Generation by Andria Zafirakou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'An amazing book . . . Read it gang, honestly' Zoe Ball'I haven't read a book for a long time that so often had me close to tears' Observer 'Inspirational . . . You can call this good teaching; what it looks like is love' Evening StandardThe powerful, inspiring story of Andria Zafirakou, 'the best teach ...Show more
Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Discover the truth about the billion-dollar online economy that made the internet's best known stars. Being an influencer is now the top future career choice for children. What if you could spend your life adored by fans, receiving freebies and countless riches. What if you could bypass the worst job ma ...Show more
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Podcasting is hailed for its intimacy and authenticity in an age of mistrust and disinformation. This portable audio format is hugely popular, with journalists, entertainers, corporates, celebrities, artists, activists and hobbyists all dipping a toe in the podcast pond.But while it is relatively easy t ...Show more
Money, Magic, and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb - Quantum Economics for the Real World by David Orrell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Orrell argues that modelling markets with the mathematical toolbox of quantum mechanics could lead to a better understanding of them ... Such ideas may still sound abstract. But they will soon be physically embodied on trading floors ... One way or another, finance will catch up." The EconomistHow quan ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era- authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power ...Show more
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate and ally, remembering that just because others are learning you don't need to be the teacher, from the dynamic and sharp co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf. Poignant, inspiring, funny and most importantly authentic, How to ...Show more