Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'This book is about a revolution. It has radically upended how we've understood and interacted with our world. It has demolished traditional barriers and empowered millions who were previously marginalized. It has created vast new sectors of our economy, while devastating legacy institutions. It is ofte ...Show more
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA 'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES 'Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent mirac ...Show more
Gang Politics - Revolution, Repression, and Crime by Kristian Williams; Robert Evans (Foreword by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Demystifying forces of the state, gangs, and revolutionary violence. In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society's understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between "gangs" of all sorts--cops and ...Show more
Ground Breaking by Philip Mulvey, Freya Mulvey
$35.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Practical solutions for agricultural management, enabling the restoration of landscape, climate and community. Reaching zero emissions alone won't stop the Earth heating up. There's another factor at play, even bigger than rising greenhouse gas levels: agricultural land use, and it is turning th ...Show more
Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the ...Show more
Homecoming The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World by Rana Foroohar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A sweeping case that a new age of economic localization will reunite place and prosperity, putting an end to the last half century of globalization--by one of the preeminent economic journalists writing today"This invaluable book is as bold in its ambitions as it is readable."--Ian Bremmer, New York Tim ...Show more
How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An authoritative and myth-busting analysis that tells us why we're wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate emergency will not lead to mass migration. Border restrictions have actually produced more migration. These statements might sound like they completely contra ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
In Defense of Processed Food by Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
An iconoclastic celebration of canned, packaged, and preserved foods. By turns a scientific, feminist, and economic critique, this book gleefully attacks received wisdom about the dangers of processed food. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo argues that, in fact, most processed foods are relatively healthy and ...Show more
Inspiring Change : How to Influence Behaviour for a Better World by Liam Smith (Editor); Jim Curtis (Editor); Peter Bragge (Editor); Paul Kellner (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Change can be hard. We try our best as individuals to improve our fitness, dietary habits and financial stability, and to do the right thing by others and the planet, but it often falls to government and other institutions to persuade us to change our ways.BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA) is a leading beh ...Show more