The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80, No 2 by GREEN JONATHAN
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'The world knows that the Australian immigration process is very tough.' In the magazine's cover feature Still Lives, five people now resident in Australia and New Zealand tell in vivid first-hand accounts the stories of lives stilled by statelessness or detention, and lives settled in a new home and a ...Show more
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment syste ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journa ...Show more
In Bad Faith: Inside a secret ultra-Orthodox sect and the brutal betrayal it tried to hide by Dassi Erlich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'I am a sexual abuse survivor, but I am also more than a survivor. I will continue fighting for justice for all victims.' Dassi Erlich grew up in St Kilda East, the fourth of seven children born to parents who had joined one of the strictest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. As a girl, he ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80, No 3 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'I've never been too impressed with the metaphoric mountain-top that Black race scholars and civil rights activists have typically been concerned with, of a promised land and a dream . . . As appealing as it sounds I don't believe that such a world will ever be possible in a settler colonial state . . . ...Show more
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80 No 1 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Australia is the fourth biggest country in the world for QAnon social media content and discussion, and its fans are a wide ranging group, from celebrity chef Pete Evans to federal MP's like George Christensen. Margaret Simons wonders what brings them all together, why ideas like the theories promoted b ...Show more
Crown: Playing in the Shadows by Tom Ravlic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The dark reality of what really happened behind the bright lights and sounds of the casino floor. Crown is a case study in a decaying corporate culture with celebrities, former politicians, corporate governance failures, tax dodges, and casino junkets tailor-made for colourful gambling identities. It ex ...Show more