Head Hand Heart - The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century by David Goodhart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to Head (cognitive), Hand (manual/craft) and Heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies they have got out of kilter. One form of human aptitude -cognitive ability - has become the gold standard of human esteem. The cognitive ...Show more
Homelessness: A Critical Introduction by Cameron Parsell
$36.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure. As this book shows, society – along with the public policy measures intended to address it – treats being homeless as an identit ...Show more
Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation by Kerry-Anne Walsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
Hooked: How Processed Food Became Addictive by Michael Moss
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a powerful exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. Everyone knows how hard it can be to ...Show more
House of Trump, House of Putin - The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A bombshell.' Daily Mail 'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator 'The story Unger weaves with his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.' The Washington Post House of Trump, Hous ...Show more
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
$48.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them. Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's greatest era of civil wars. While violence has declined worldwide, civil wars have increased. This has changed. Since 1946, ove ...Show more
How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in - the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions w ...Show more
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKThe moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that ...Show more
How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft by Rory Cormac
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An engaging and incisive investigation into the shadowy world of secret statecraft and covert action, by a leading expert on the topic. Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning to secret statecraft and the hidden ha ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighbours to one another? C.L. Skach feels differently. She always believed in th ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more