Fall and Rise: the Story Of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author who's spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, huma ...Show more
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (TPB) (EE) by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Current Affairs
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
Trade Winds - A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Almost everything you consume, from your weekly shop to the Christmas presents you ordered online, arrived by cargo ship. Shipping is the engine of the world economy, transporting 11 billion tonnes of goods each year. Despite an environmental crisis, shipping emissions have doubled since 1990, producing ...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
It's a Conspiracy! - The World's Wildest Conspiracy Theories. What They Don't Want You to Know. and Why the Truth Is Out There by Tom Cutler
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Category: Current Affairs
* Did NASA fake the moon landings? * Did aliens build the pyramids? * Is Finland really there? Dive down the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole with bestselling author and conspiracy buff Tom Cutler. Mingle with the millions who do not trust the official version and find out what THEY - the global elites - d ...Show more
Do As I Say: How cults control, why we join them, and what they teach us about bullying, abuse and coercion by Sarah Steel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has research ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C. J. Polychroniou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the ...Show more
Asian Girls are Going Places: How to Navigate the World as an Asian Woman Today by Michelle Law
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Girls Guide to the World Ser.
The third in the Girls Guide to the World series,Asian Girls are Going Places is a gift book with a difference: it features practical advice (and more) from author Michelle Law and her interviewees that specifically targets the joys, fears and obligations unique to Asian women travelling the world. Sepa ...Show more
Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by Brigid Delaney
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Category: Current Affairs
The inspiration for a Netflix series starring Celeste Barber, Wellmania is an in-depth, entertaining, laugh-out-loud-funny exploration of wellness culture.Now with a new preface by the author.Cold-pressed juices, quitting sugar, Paleo, hot yoga, mindfulness ... if you embrace these things you will be ha ...Show more
The Archipelago of Us: A Search for Our Identity in Australia’s Most Remote Territories by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Renee Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories o ...Show more