Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States by Emma Shortis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
In Our Exceptional Friend, Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morality to mount a compelling and unique case as to why Australia's relationship with the United States needs a serious overhaul. Australians are told that we have two choices in this world: the United States, or ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment ...Show more
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
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
Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance by Eda Gunaydin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
That there is no easy translation for ‘awkward’ in other languages suggests that I’m only myself in English. This feels like a loss, because I’d like to think of myself as Turkish, too.There is a Turkish saying that one’s home is not where one is born, but where one grows full – doğduğun yer değil, doyd ...Show more
Lessons From History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia’s Greatest Challenges by Edited by: Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
In Lessons from History leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian histor ...Show more
Fighting for Our Lives - The History of a Community's Response to AIDS by Nick Cook
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Fighting For Our Lives is the inspirational story of communities directly affected by the AIDS crisis. Against a harrowing backdrop of illness and death, fear and anger, hate and discrimination, they bravely took action. During the darkest years of the epidemic, marginalised communities – mostly gay men ...Show more
Conspiracies Uncovered by Lee Mellor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Enter a hidden world of mysteries, scandals, secrets, and lies Perhaps it is human nature to believe there is more to the world than meets the eye - that the greatest secrets and truths are hidden from us. Whatever the reason, conspiracy theories are a global phenomenon. Conspiracies Uncovered delves in ...Show more
The Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Nine months after the spill that catapulted him to the prime ministership, Scott Morrison won the 2019 election, shocking politicians and political pundits (and, quite possibly, himself). Yet, unlike his predecessors, little was really known about the former marketing man whose hard-nosed political inst ...Show more
Woke Inc - Inside the Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of capitalism. The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, corporate elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more