We Still Here - Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill; Frank Barat (Editor); Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means--and how we take steps to get there.
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
What Do YOU Think?: How to agree to disagree and still be friends by Matthew Syed
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The third children's book by bestselling mindset author and two-time Olympian, Matthew Syed will help readers to find their voice, flex their social superpowers, and speak up with kindness and confidence. What if you could disagree with someone without it turning into the argument of the century? I'm he ...Show more
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
What It Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'I don't know what it is about heights. I'm scared of 'em. Dead scared. But not of fallin'. I'm scared of jumpin'. Coz whenever I'm high up, I get this overwhelmin' urge to just... leap off.'Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' lik ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. F ...Show more
White Feminism by Koa Beck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Koa Beck writes with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women's movements and feminist culture, past and present. Curious, rigorous, and ultimately generous, White Feminism is a pleasure and an education.' Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad'I ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
White Malice - The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Congo's Patrice Lumumba strike u ...Show more
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
Who Owns History? The Case of Elgin's Loot (HB) by Geoffrey Robertson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The controversy about the Elgin Marbles continues to rage. This book will be the first to propound a system for the return of cultural property, based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts to decide whether artworks, manuscripts and sculptures have cultural importance and ...Show more