The Women Who Made Modern Economics by Rachel Reeves
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
THE WOMEN WHO MADE MODERN ECONOMICS tells the story of the women who for too many years have been locked out of the economy with negative consequences for them and for society as a whole. Economic thinking has also largely ignored what women have to offer, marginalising the work of female economists or ...Show more
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. 'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY Our world is losing its humanity. Too many d ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more
Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morn ...Show more
Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World by Michèle Lamont
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self-reliance, and wealth. Decades of neoliberalism have driven our definition of success. Yet, as we have amasse ...Show more
Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia by Nora Krug
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
Immediately following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug connected with two anonymous subjects - 'K.', a Ukrainian journalist, and 'D.', a Russian artist - and began what would become a year of correspondence. Deeply moved by the rawness of their responses, she felt that through th ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
Naked City by John Silvester
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys, pool halls and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice, and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidante of cops, criminals, ...Show more
The Race to the Future by Kassia St Clair
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float th ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
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Category: Politics and Society
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. From greedy to generous, from cold to kind-hearted, from rogue to hero, Bill Gates is an extraordinarily complex public figure. Yet over th ...Show more