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What Does it Feel Like Being Born? by Jodie Miller
$22.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
CELEBRATING 2020: THE YEAR OF THE NURSE AND MIDWIFE It's 1999 and Jodie doesn't want children. When her husband threatens, baby or bust, she resists. But 30 is approaching, and her eggs aren't getting younger. By chance, Jodie gets access to the only public Birth Centre in South East Queensland; one o ...Show more
The Wake-Up Call - How the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West - and How to Fix It by John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world. The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where politics in the US an ...Show more
Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more
Griffith Review 70 - Generosities of Spirit by Ashley Hay (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontl ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics by Katharine Murphy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about Scott Morrison, and where is he taking Australia? Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the res ...Show more
The Carbon Club: How a Network of Influential Climate Sceptics, Politicians and Business Leaders Fought to Control Australia's Climate Policy by Marian Wilkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the qu ...Show more
The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level, from a global economist hailed by the Observer as 'one of the world's leading thinkers'. Professor Noreena Hertz has travelled the world to explore the loneliness epi ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
Webtopia: The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés by Felicity Ruby + Peter Cronau Eds.
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations - revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world - as battling sport ...Show more
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture' - Steven PinkerHave you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practise yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese ...Show more
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse - What You Urgently Need to Know by Nina Schick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and situations which never actually happened. When co ...Show more
