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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
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inspiration for the film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand.
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
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
Funny You Should Ask... (Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves) (PB) by John Lloyd; Sarah Lloyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI. Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show's 'Why Workshop' where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners. Funny You Should Ask features the QI Elves' answers to questions on to ...Show more
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humanity. In this timely and important book, two of the principle creators of that agreement show us why and how we can now realise its' promise. I hope it is widely read and acted on' Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger o ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
$14.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Faber Social Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam by Yasmine Mohammed
$44.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel meets The Handmaid's Tale Since September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about the faith is polarized--one camp praises "the religion of peace" while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadi ...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
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
Arab Australian Other: Stories of Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah; Sara Saleh (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures. Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, an ...Show more
