Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
Griffith Review 71 - Remaking the Balance by Ashley Hay (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance features essays, reportage, memoir, fiction and poetry that examine our relationship with resources both tangible and intangible, physical and personal. What we grow, eat, mine, burn, transform and manufacture all place increasing stress on the world's ecosystems ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks ...Show more
The Beijing Bureau: Reporting China's Rise by Trevor Watson (Editor); Melissa Roberts (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays from twenty-four of Australia's leading foreign correspondents revealing their experiences and insights into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world ...Show more
Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan Allen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden's harrowing ride to victory, from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House--not Do ...Show more
The Truth About China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers by Bill Birtles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Em ...Show more
On Indignation( On Series) by Don Watson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they coul ...Show more
Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
$19.95 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia's brightest and most astute political commentator. Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye ...Show more