Why Didn't We Riot? - A Black Man in Trumpland by Issac J. Bailey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In Why Didn't We Riot?, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to pove ...Show more
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World — and How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it. Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are t ...Show more
Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A blazing call-to-arms for living a life in rebellion, inspired by the author's unshakeable, deep-rooted love for our planet Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important. Because we need ...Show more
Why We're Polarised by Ezra Klein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended? 'Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarised.' - Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post'It is likely to become the political bo ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
Wilful Blindness - Why We Ignore the Obvious by Margaret Heffernan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and ask, how could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers and white collar crim ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their p ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
Women Changing the World: Why Women Hold the Key to Unlock the Future by PEACE MITCHELL
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
WHAT IF WE COULD INSPIRE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO CHANGE THE WORLD? This question was the inspiration for creating this book. A vision to create something beautiful yet powerful that would inspire others to take action, in their own lives and the work they do, to find ways to make the world a better place i ...Show more
Wooleen Way: Renewing an Australian Resource by David Pollock
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Australian Memoir
The outback conjures many images that the Australian psyche is built upon. Its grand vistas of sweeping dusty plains and its evocation of a tough pioneering spirit form the foundation of our prosperous culture. But these romantic visions often hide the stark environmental, economic, and social problems ...Show more