Is Globalization Over? by Jeremy Green
$33.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Looming trade wars and rising nationalism have stirred troubling memories of the 1930s. Will history repeat itself? Do we face the chaotic breakdown of the global economic system in the face of stagnation, protectionism and political tumult? Jeremy Green argues that, although we face grave problems, g ...Show more
Is It Tomorrow Yet? - Paradoxes of the Pandemic by Ivan Krastev
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable...'Beneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing speeches and the conflicting advice, the Coronavirus pandemic acted, changing our world in the most profound ways. The tragic human cost an ...Show more
Is Our Food Killing Us? by Joy Manning
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
This thought-provokingvolume from noted food writerJoy Manning dissects how theproduction and consumptionof food have become harmfulto our personal, societal, andenvironmental health--andassesses the possible remedies. In the developed world, small-scale family farms have largely been replaced by factor ...Show more
Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice by Aviva Chomsky
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Myths Made in America Ser.
Why social, racial, and economic justice is just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe. We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we've already done, the droughts, the wildfires, the super-storms, the melting glaciers, the h ...Show more
Island off the Coast of Asia - Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy by Clinton Fernandes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Investigating Power Ser.
Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy is an unprecedented 230-year Australian study that reveals the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the ‘national interest’. Australia’s search for security has meant much more than protection from m ...Show more
It's Not about the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would descri ...Show more
It's the Government, Stupid!: How Governments Blame Citizens for Their Own Policies by Keith Dowding
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Governments have developed a convenient habit of blaming social problems on their citizens, placing too much emphasis on personal responsibility and pursuing policies to ‘nudge’ their citizens to better behaviour. Dowding shows that, in fact, responsibility for many of our biggest social crises — includ ...Show more
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
$31.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In Jesus and John Wayne, a seventy-five-year history of American evangelicalism, Kristin Kobes Du Mez demolishes the myth that white evangelicals "held their noses" in voting for Donald Trump. Revealing the role of popular culture in evangelicalism, Du Mez shows how evangelicals have worked for decad ...Show more
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul by Elizabeth Farrelly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
I've lived in Sydney some thirty years. But I feel that the city I love is under genuine threat. Motorways, Mirrorglass, McMansions: this knock-down-rebuild mentality is everywhere. I get hundreds of emails, all the time, from people who are infuriated, or despairing, over what is happening to Sydney. A ...Show more
Kilo - Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels by Toby Muse
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Join the deadly journey of cocaine, from farmer to kingpin. Meet Jose.Jose doesn't see himself as a criminal. He's just a farmer growing a crop he won't lose money on- coca. This is Fabian. Fabian calls himself a freedom fighter. But wars cost money. And transporting drugs is the fastest way to raise ca ...Show more
Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland
$23.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Kinglake-350 to VKC. Urgent, do you read me? The fire’s here now. God help us. Kinglake-350 is a masterpiece of writing about family, community, country life and what happens when a day of ultimate terror arrives. Adrian Hyland takes a dramatic and compelling sequence of events on that day and weaves th ...Show more
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide by Miranda Devine
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became th ...Show more