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
Work Pray Code - When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional plac ...Show more
Working Class History - Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Noam Chomsky (Foreword by); Working Class History Working Class History (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
History is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals--it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere have walked out, sat down, risen up, and fought back against exploitation, discrimination, colonization, a ...Show more
Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin: A Contested History by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wet ...Show more
Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
A timely political primer on Xi Jinping by acclaimed author and academic, Professor Kerry Brown.
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pengun Special | Reading Level: very good
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'An entertaining work of memoir-cum-political strategy' Publishers Weekly The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated th ...Show more
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren't waiting for new public housing to be ...Show more
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