Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' --Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism, and even antisemitism, when th ...Show more
The LGBTQ + History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Various; DK Publishing
$42.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A bold, accessible, and truly global overview of LGBTQ+ history, from the ancient world to the present day. Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions. Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGB ...Show more
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
$17.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
David Baddiel examines the -ism that woke culture and identity politics leave behind: antisemitism. Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you.It is t ...Show more
Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia by Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The achievement of marriage equality in Australia in 2017 was hailed by many as the crowning event of a fifty-year story of hard work by activists, which began with campaigns to decriminalise sex between men in the early 1970s. In that same five decades, feminist activism, including campaigns for aborti ...Show more
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Blending history, travel and reportage, this is a wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an examination of their role in shaping our world today. In this book James Crawford argues that our enduring obsession with borders has brought us to a crisis point: that we are entering the endga ...Show more
Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI by Susie Alegre
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A highly topical manifesto about what it means to be human in the age of AI by a leading barrister. No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love. In this urgent polemic, leading ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call to action. Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awar ...Show more