Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"In this eye-opening debut study, Frerick, an agricultural policy fellow at Yale University, reveals the ill-gained stranglehold that a handful of companies have on America's food economy...It's a disquieting critique of private monopolization of public necessities." --Publishers Weekly, starred Bar ...Show more
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A collection of essays and advice about navigating racism in modern Australia, and creating your own safe space, for those who have faced racial discrimination and their allies. I’ve played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. ...Show more
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more
Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer com ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration in the US Between 1964 and 1972, the United States endured domestic violence on a scale not seen since the Civil War. During these eight years, Black residents ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women a ...Show more
Alan Joyce and Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon by Peter Harbison; Derek Sadubin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Alan Joyce & Qantas - The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon is the fascinating, unauthorised story of Alan Joyce's meteoric rise and turbulent 15-year tenure as the CEO of Qantas. The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contains all the ingredients of a corporate ...Show more
Whistleblower - My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other employees, but 'starting a bonfire on creepy sexual be ...Show more
Trade Winds - A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer
$15.00 AUD
$39.99 (62% off)
Category: Current Affairs
Almost everything you consume, from your weekly shop to the Christmas presents you ordered online, arrived by cargo ship. Shipping is the engine of the world economy, transporting 11 billion tonnes of goods each year. Despite an environmental crisis, shipping emissions have doubled since 1990, producing ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
$15.00 AUD
$27.99 (46% off)
Category: Current Affairs
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more