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
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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
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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
Meanjin Vol 80, No 3 by Jonathan Green
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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
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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
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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
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Essential reading' Ai Weiwei' *** 'Deeply courageous' Philippe SandsA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of on ...Show more
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott Shapiro
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Category: Current Affairs
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before. Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military intelligence broke into the Democratic National Committee network, grabbed what it could, and ...Show more
The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2021 by Antonio Giustozzi
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Category: Current Affairs
How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement’s extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban’s external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affect ...Show more