The Power of Suffering by David Roland
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The Power of Suffering is psychologist David Roland's personal investigation into the nature of human suffering. When our world is turned upside down, what does it do to us, how do we survive it, and, most importantly, how can we grow as a result? David takes the lived experience of eleven incredible pe ...Show more
#MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement by Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Natalie Kon-yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
#MeToo is not just about famous people ... If #MeToo is going to ultimately make the big difference we all want to see, it's got to mean something for [any] woman who gets harassed. - Julia Gillard This is the first collection that aims to make sense of the #MeToo movement in Australia. A collection th ...Show more
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah,Sara Saleh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
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
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession by Ross Garnaut
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
From the bestselling author, a ground-breaking sequel to Superpower. In Reset, renowned economist Ross Garnaut shows how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset its economy and build a successful future - and why the old approaches will not work. Garnaut develops the idea of a ren ...Show more
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Towes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
ritten by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them. Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COV ...Show more
The Medicine - A Doctor's Notes by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
What happens when a doctor kills a patient? Are GPs overprescribing antidepressants? Does 'female Viagra' work? What role can psychedelics and cannabis play in treating pain? What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads? In The Medicine, Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday ...Show more
China Dependence - Australia's New Vulnerability by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia's status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security. China Dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic and diplomatic ...Show more
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the G ...Show more
Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities by Peter Seamer
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change. Australia's population is growing- between 2017 and 2046 it is projected to increase by 11.8 million, the equivalent of adding a city the size of Canberra each year for thirty years. Most of this growth will occur in the major cities, and ...Show more
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia by Dominic Kelly
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia - of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm ga ...Show more
How to Defend Australia by Hugh White
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future. Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White cons ...Show more