Hip Hop and Hymns by Mawunyo Gbogbo
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
A memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist.'Hip hop and hymns- the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.'Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going A ...Show more
Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency by Gareth Evans
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why should we in Australia, or any country, care about poverty, human rights atrocities, health epidemics, environmental catastrophes, weapons proliferation or any other problems afflicting faraway countries, when they don’t, as is often the case, have any direct or immediate impact on our own safety or ...Show more
Morrison's Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy by Paul Kelly
$12.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges- an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by maki ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know about the Voice by Megan Davis, George Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point?Everything You Need to Know About the Voice to Parliament, written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from t ...Show more
The Persuaders - Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
$37.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion- changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over. ...Show more
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
A masterclass on how politics works and how to achieve real change.In recent years, the world of politics has taken a series of disastrous wrong turns. We have witnessed leaders who can't - or shouldn't be allowed to - lead, policies that are either self-serving or don't work, and world views that are c ...Show more
Danger On Our Doorstep by Jim Molan
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
An unsettling assessment of how - and when - war with China might break out and the consequences for the world, from bestselling author, ex-major general Jim Molan What are Australia's options in confronting a rising and belligerent China?For the first time in nearly 80 years, war on our doorstop is not ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one o ...Show more
1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Fully updated for 2021, 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds in history.
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
Flashpoint China - Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance by Andreas Rupprecht; Tom Cooper
$57.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
From the South China Sea to the mountains of Nepal, the continued economic rise of the People's Republic of China has led to a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the region. As a result, the relationship between China and its neighbors, as well as with the United States and its allies, has become ...Show more