Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, has been found guilty of five sexual crimes against children.Updated edition. He is the most senior Catholic figure in the world to be charged by police and convicted of child sex offences. The abuse involved choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick's ...Show more
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World by Jeremy Rifkin
$32.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a s ...Show more
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev; Stephen Holmes; Anon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformati ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
Unfinished Business - Life As a Senator by Derryn Hinch
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Category: Current Affairs Politics
Derryn Hinch made headlines in 2016 when he went from media personality to Victorian Senator at the head of a new political party and made a lasting impact on the political landscape. This is an unflinchingly honest account of his last two years as a senator, before he lost his seat in the 2019 election ...Show more
The Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl; Dana Mackenzie
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and ...Show more
Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how th ...Show more
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: very good
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own re ...Show more
Secret: the Making of Australia's Security State by Brian Toohey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: Government Powers
Australia is less secure than it has ever been and the greatest threat comes from our elected government. Political leaders increasingly promote secrecy, ignorance and fear to introduce new laws that undermine individual liberties and safety.It is a criminal offence to receive or publish a wide range of ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
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Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have mor ...Show more