Power & Consent by Rachel Doyle
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The scandal involving Dyson Heydon, former justice of the High Court, confirmed that the scourge of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces was also to be found in the chambers of one of the seven most senior judges in the country. An unquestioning reliance on the calibre of the fine legal minds appo ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more
Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment by Jenny Valentish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Her travels around Australia take her to treatment facilities and AA groups. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as chil ...Show more
Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession by Ross Garnaut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
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
Stories We Tell Ourselves - Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
An examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
The Ruby Princess by Duncan McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passenge ...Show more
An Unconventional Wife: The Life of Julia Sorell Arnold by Mary Hoban
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
The page-turning biography of an Australian woman who refused to bend to the expectations of her husband and her time. Julia Sorell was an original. A colonial belle from Tasmania, vivacious and warm-hearted, Julia's marriage to Tom Arnold in 1850 propelled her into one of the most renowned families in ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
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$39.99 (50% off)
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about clim ...Show more
Bewitched and Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years by Samantha (ed) Trenoweth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Bewitched and Bedevilled looks at the reasons Julia Gillard, our first female Prime Minister, was so vehemently attacked, the varied reactions to being a female prime minister, her unfortunate position at the receiving end of a barrage of sexism and misogyny and how much this played a part in her politi ...Show more
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more
A People Betrayed: A History of 20th Century Spain by Paul Preston
$59.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. In 1898 Spain was in a state of despair and unrest. They had lost the war with America and with it the last of their major colonies ...Show more
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: Puffin Teenage Bks.
The headmaster of Trinity College asks Archie Costello, the leader of the Vigils, a secret society that rules the school, to help with the selling of 20,000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. Archie sees the chance of adding to his power - he is the Assigner, handing out to the boys ...Show more