Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to dr ...Show more
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An urgent call to build a new model for the pharmaceutical industry, from the multi-award-winning Times journalist. The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a S ...Show more
Sick of It - The Global Fight for Women's Health by Sophie Harman
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Category: Current Affairs
A powerful call to confront the reasons why global politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic We know the causes of death and disease among women all over the world. We have the funding and commitment from governments and philanthropists to tackle it. So why a ...Show more
Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller FIRE AND FURY, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With FIRE AND FURY, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in SIEGE, he has written an equally essential and explosive bo ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
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Category: Current Affairs
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more
Simply Climate Change: Facts Made Fast by DK
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Category: Current Affairs
The clearest, simplest guide to climate change ever publishedExploring the science behind climate change has never been easier Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Climate Change is an essential introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. ...Show more
Six Capitals Updated Edition: The Revolution Capitalism Has to Have--Or Can Accountants Save the Planet? by Jane Gleeson-White
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Category: Current Affairs
An accessible, timely and fascinating account of the revolution going on in the world of finance - and how accountants really can save the planet - from the acclaimed author of Double Entry.
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it impossible to ignore the issue of race. Still, it is ...Show more
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market by Scott Hamilton, Stuart Kells
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Category: Current Affairs
The Murray-Darling Basin is Australia's greatest environmental asset. The story of water in Australia is written into its ancient rivers, creeks and wetlands. It's home to more than forty Indigenous nations, and it covers an area bigger than France. It is the beating heart of our regions and sustains 40 ...Show more
Sold Out!: How Severed Supply & Surging Inflation Will End Consumer Choice by James Rickards
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Category: Current Affairs
Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages- crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality for many as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the cost of consume ...Show more
Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
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Category: Current Affairs
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
Solved - How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis by David Miller; Bill McKibben (Foreword by)
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduc ...Show more