The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
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Category: Current Affairs
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recen ...Show more
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
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Category: Current Affairs
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of Ameri ...Show more
The Restless Wave - Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations by John McCain; Mark Salter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect of people on both sides of the aisle as a model for bipartisanship and political integrity. After forty years in politics, his words are more important today than ever. The Restless Wave begins in 2008 with McCain's presidential campaign a ...Show more
Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how th ...Show more
Russia Without Putin by Tony Wood
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Category: Current Affairs
It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage of it to an extraordinary extent. In Russia itself, he is likewise the centre of atte ...Show more
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
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Category: Current Affairs
______________________'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics Featured in FT Best Books of the Year 2020______________________The world has finally awoken to the ...Show more
The Rebel and the Kingdom - The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative and his high-stakes attempt to change the world. In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for h ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Most Powerful Man in the World by Stefan Aust; Adrian Geiges
$51.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately poor rural regions where families ...Show more
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
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Category: Current Affairs
A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete'Mo is an exquisite writer and speaker with deep expertise of technology . . . ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontro ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: Current Affairs
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation--and the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mi ...Show more