Masters of the Lost Land - The Untold Story of the Fight to Own the Amazon by Heriberto Araújo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The gripping true story of the fight for human, economic and environmental justice raging in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. 'An essential book' - Joe Jackson, author of The Thief at the End of the WorldDeep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious l ...Show more
Maybe the People Would Be the Times - Essays by Lucy Sante
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In his second collection, Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City. The ...Show more
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Based on a series of extensive interviews - and now revised and updated to reflect current events - Media Tarts provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system and explores the part played by the press in their downfall. ' ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
Meet You at the Main Divide - A family's story of life on Lake Hawea Station by Geoff Ross; Justine Ross
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Authors of Every Bastard Says No on giving up their city life for a high-country station in Central Otago In Meet You at the Main Divide, innovators, disrupters, and authors of Every Bastard Says No share the challenge of a lifetime: leaving behind their Herne Bay mansion to farm 10,000 merino sheep on ...Show more
Meltdown - Stories of Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical by Joel Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship with nuclear power and the ongoing s ...Show more
Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on their roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed larg ...Show more
Mental State by Cross, Dr Mark
$35.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing both patients and professionals. What he ...Show more
Mentoring: The key to a fairer world by Jack Manning Bancroft
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As a 19-year-old university student, Jack Manning Bancroft realised that education was the key to leading the most disadvantaged kids in Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander high school kids - out of inequality. He founded AIME, The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, with 25 Indi ...Show more
Merchants Of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed directo ...Show more
Merchants of Truth: Inside the War for Control of the News by Jill Abramson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. Drawing on revelatory access, Abramson takes us behind the scenes at four media tit ...Show more
Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development - Sustaining Cultural Security by Cheryl Kickett-Tucker (Editor); Dawn Bessarab (Associate Editor); Juli Coffin (Associate Editor); Michael Wright (Associate Editor)
$81.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Until recently, Aboriginal people have been subjected to mainly top-down development, which has proven damaging to communities. Mia Mia Aboriginal Community Development offers an alternative to such approaches, promoting cultural security in order to empower Aboriginal people to strengthen their own com ...Show more