Net Privacy: How We Can Be Free in an Age of Surveillance by Sacha Molitorisz
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Category: Current Affairs
In our digital world, we are confused by privacy - what is public, what is private? We are also challenged by it, the conditions of privacy so uncertain we become unsure about our rights to it. We may choose to share personal information, but often do so on the assumption that it won't be re-shared, sol ...Show more
Never Again - Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8 by Andrea Gaynor (Editor); Peter Newman (Editor); Philip Jennings (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs
The lead-up to the 2017 Western Australian state election saw a large and lively protest over the construction of stage 8 of the Roe Highway (Roe 8) and the Perth Freight Link. Years of opposition to Roe 8 culminated in civil disobedience, mass arrests, and media theatrics as the bulldozers tore across ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West by David E Sanger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitze ...Show more
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
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Category: Current Affairs
From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying al ...Show more
New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt
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Category: Current Affairs
We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.We' ...Show more
New Power by Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
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Category: Current Affairs
In this indispensable guide to navigating the 21st century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing - and how 'new power' is reshaping politics, business and life. Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Australian Jere ...Show more
News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World by Alan Rusbridger
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Category: Current Affairs
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age o ...Show more
Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Current Affairs
BILL BRYSON 'Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration' MALCOLM GLADWELL In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, bestselling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of fifty radical inventions that chan ...Show more
Nine Lives - My Time As MI6'S Top Spy by Paul Cruickshank; Tim Lister; Aimen Dean
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Category: Current Affairs
As one of Al Qaeda's most respected scholars and bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and met Osama Bin Laden himself. His job was already one of the most dangerous in the world. But what the others didn't know was that he was working undercover for MI6.
No Choice: The Fall of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect the Right to Abortion by Becca Andrews
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Category: Current Affairs
'Powerful, deftly researched. A necessary and urgent deep-dive' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Brilliantly researched and enlightening' STYLIST, Books You Need to Know This Autumn'Absolutely captivating' LESLIE JAMISON----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Frid ...Show more
No Enemies, No Friends: Restoring Australia's Global Relevance by Allan Behm
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Category: Current Affairs
How can Australia recalibrate its national security settings to meet future demands amid global disruption? Plicy expert Allan Behm offers practical ideas, imbued with optimismIs increased defence spending all that Australia needs to ensure its national security? How well placed are we to deal with glob ...Show more
No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel
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Category: Current Affairs
An Irish Times ‘Book to Look Out For in 2022’ A devastating account of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee Nury Turkel was born in a ‘re-education’ camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution. He spent the first several months of his life in c ...Show more