American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
Mental State: The insanity of Australia's mental health system - and how to fix it, from the bestselling author of ANXIETY and CHANGING MINDS by Dr Mark Cross
$35.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing both patients and professionals. What he h ...Show more
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she ...Show more
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social and financial fallout. The billionaire entrepreneur a ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Prequel: An American fight against fascism by Rachel Maddow
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Category: Current Affairs
The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'A ripping read. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling' New York Times'A chilling history lesson... Vivid, urgent, smart' Washington PostAs Hitler's ascendancy began to make a Second World War inevitable, a clandestine network flooded t ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
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Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia by Stephanie Baker
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Category: Current Affairs
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war against Russia after Putin's invasion of Ukraine - written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale ...Show more
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) In An Age Of Conflict by William Ury
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Category: Current Affairs
The author of the world's best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with the world's toughest conflicts to offer a way out of the seemingly impossible problems of our time. Conflict is increasing everywhere, threatening everything we hold d ...Show more