You Are a Global Citizen - A Guided Journal for the Culturally Curious by Damon Dominique
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Who are you? Why are you, you? What kind of person do you want to be?You Are A Global Citizen challenges us to take a deeper look at our role as global citizens, from the armchair traveller to the frequent flyer and everyone in between, providing a springboard for us to understand the world and other cu ...Show more
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Everyone knows the word "war". But very few understand what it truly means - when you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. All of your plans are suddenly interrupted - Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. This is the gripping, urgent and movi ...Show more
You Talk, We Die: the battle for Victoria's first safe injecting facility by Judy Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'If not us, who? If not now, when?' You Talk, We Die is a highly personalised account of inner-city residents uniting in desperation to change their state government's response to a major health problem- people struggling with drug addiction.Heroin addiction and its tragic consequences are a key feature ...Show more
Youth to Power - Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin; Greta Thunberg (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power i ...Show more
Zealot by Jo Thornely
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to give themsel ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...Show more
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: very good
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more
What's Wrong with Economics - A Primer for the Perplexed by Robert Skidelsky
$47.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our timeThis insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not t ...Show more