Toast - Climate Change Is Doing Enormous Harm. Why Do Many Australians Deny It? Can We Avoid the Worst Effects? by Ralph Evans
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In eight chapters, Toast: describes the huge threat climate change poses to the world and to Australia in particular; explains why it is difficult to perceive; goes through the evidence that shows the scientists are right; describes the "war" of influence and ideas that has promoted climate science deni ...Show more
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I d ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
My Israel Question: Reframing The Israel/Palestine Conflict by Antony Loewenstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
The election of Barack Obama brought hope to millions around the world. Change was promised. But the Israel/Palestine conflict remains mired in brutality and occupation. The election of a far-right Israeli government, the indiscriminate Gaza war and the illegal expansion of West Bank colonies seems to i ...Show more
The Everything Token - How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create by Steve Kaczynski; Scott Duke Kominers
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
NFTs cause excitement and skepticism. How much value can a token hold? What drives this value? The Everything Token is an essential primer on NFTs (non-fungible tokens), explaining their use, purpose, and how businesses can create and exploit them to develop new product lines, building customer loyalty ...Show more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel - the last fifteen for The New York Times - presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country's history. A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portr ...Show more
12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$51.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...Show more
Anansi's Gold - The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Fabulously entertaining' Daily Telegraph 'Thrilling . . . Yeebo tells the jaw-dropping story of [Ghanaian con artist Blay-Miezah] . . . meticulously researched' Guardian'Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.'s Catch Me If You Can' Publishers WeeklyThe astounding, never-before-told story of how an inge ...Show more