Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl
$75.00 AUD
Category: Current Topics
Picking up where the New York Times bestseller Betrayal left off, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image-and the wreckage he's left in his wake.Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning- Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's imp ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
How Infrastructure Works: The Systems That Run Our World - and How We Fix Them by Deb Chachra
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong. 'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin Kleon. Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from t ...Show more
The Welcome to Country Handbook: A Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
The Welcome to Country Handbook by Professor Marcia Langton is your accessible introduction to First Nations Peoples, history and cultures. Drawn from the bestselling Welcome to Country, this guide is essential reading for every Australian, and an excellent resource for cultural awareness training in th ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics | Reading Level: good-very good
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more