World Politics since 1989 by Jonathan Holslag
$36.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization - of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth - give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides of global politics from the Cold ...Show more
World as Lover, World as Self: 30th Anniversary Edition by Joanna Macy
$35.75 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An enduring classic of the ecology movement by the founder of the Work That Reconnects, now more timely than ever Humanity is in an existential crisis. Facing the magnitude of our global situation as individuals leaves us feeling alone, disempowered, and despairing. Who better to listen to for wisdo ...Show more
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pengun Special | Reading Level: very good
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
YOUNG MONGOLS by Menard, Aubrey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 1990, Mongolia's youth-led revolution threw off the Soviet yoke, ushering in multi-party democracy. Thirty years later, the country's youth are still leading Mongolia's democratic development. This powerful, inclusive book introduces readers to modern Mongolia through the stories of young leaders fig ...Show more
You Are Not Expected to Understand This How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch (Editor); Kelly Chudler (Illustrator); Ellen Ullman (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life — for better or worse.Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word 'code' makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expec ...Show more
You Have Not yet Been Defeated by Alaa Abd el-Fattah; Naomi Klein (Foreword by); Omar Robert Hamilton (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 39, is arguably the most high profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world. A leading figure among the young technologists and bloggers of the 2000s he rose to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more
You've Been Played by Adrian Hon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation ? and what we can do about it.
Zero Fail - The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work -- the determinative work -- in this field ... Terrifying.'--Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years ...Show more
Zero Risk by Tony Loughran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Keeping others safe in a dangerous world. We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determinatio ...Show more
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches ...Show more
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment syste ...Show more