The Fifth Act - America's End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A Times Political Book of the Year 2022A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy.Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and, later, as ...Show more
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in our Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez Danielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our ...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
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A riveting insider account of how activists, politicians, educators and citizens are working to change minds, bridge divisions and save democracy from the bestselling author of Winners Take All It once seemed possible to build a political movement out of people with different ideas, different identities ...Show more
The Powerful and the Damned - Private Diaries in Turbulent Times by Lionel Barber
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY The real scoop isn't on the front page 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review, David De Cremer, Richard Florida, Ethan Mollick, Nita A. Farahany
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: HBR Insights Ser.
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now t ...Show more
Too Late to Awaken - What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future? by Slavoj Zizek
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume that it ...Show more
Value(s) - Climate, Credit, Covid and How We Focus on What Matters by Mark Carney
$25.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A radical book that speaks out accessibly' BONO 'Indispensable ... This is the essential handbook' CHRISTINE LAGARDE 'A remarkably good read' GILLIAN TETT, Financial Times 'A landmark achievement' WILL HUTTON, Observer We are at a pivotal moment in the fight against climat ...Show more
10 Arguments for Deleting Social Media.. by Jaron Lanier
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read' ZADIE SMITHJaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer and 'high-tech genius' (Sunday Times) who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effects are at the heart of its design, and explains in ten simple ar ...Show more
2020: The Year That Changed Us by The Conversation; Molly Glassey (Contribution by)
$21.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In January 2020, Australia went from battling one of its worst-ever bushfire seasons to preparing for COVID-19 to hit its shores. What ensued was crisis: a pandemic, political upheaval, an international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies dwarfed by a world spinning on an a ...Show more