The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frederic Martel; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
In the Closet of the Vatican is a fascinating description and evaluation of financial, sexual and political misconduct throughout the Catholic Church at a time when new revelations are being uncovered each and every week. This audiobook explores the underlying causes and includes interviews with numerou ...Show more
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
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
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$10.00 AUD
$32.99 (69% off)
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
Interference by Zebley, Aaron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
The behind-the-scenes story of the investigation that shook America to its core — the Mueller investigation that presented all the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — as told by Robert Mueller’s closest colleagues, including never-before-revealed details into how the tea ...Show more
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY' Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of "free speech" is a myth. From the middl ...Show more
The Chairman's Lounge: Qantas and the Ultimate Loyalty Program by Joe Aston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the nation’s favourite brands brought itself to ground. Joe Aston's incredible ability to break a story made his AFR column ‘Rear Window’ essential reading about how power, money and influe ...Show more
God is Good for You - A Defence of Christianity in Troubled Times by Greg Sheridan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics, Current Affairs & Social Issues
Second- hand, paperback in as new condition. The Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation for more than 2000 years, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of the West where Christianity has become a minority faith ...Show more