Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China’s past, prese ...Show more
Spinning the Secrets of State - Politics and Intelligence in Australia by Justin T. McPhee
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Investigating Power Ser.
What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clarifies national security decision-making. Ideally, that process ought to be politically neutral and detached from the policy objectives of the government it se ...Show more
Spy vs Spy: The New Age of Espionage: Australian Foreign Affairs 9 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The ninth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores the rapidly evolving espionage threat facing Australia as changes in technology enable malign actors to target individuals, officials, businesses and infrastructure.Spy vs Spy examines how Australian agencies can defend against this attempt to not o ...Show more
Statements from the Soul: The Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Shireen Morris, Damien Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution. In this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Contributors ...Show more
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler; Jamie Wheal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
NATIONAL BESTSELLER CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2017 "Steven and Jamie have done a wonderful job of balancing the promises, perils, and how-to prescriptions of engineering peak states such as 'flow.'" --Tim Ferriss, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek ...Show more
Still-Burning Bush (Updated Edition) by Stephen Pyne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch. Australia is one of the world’s fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themse ...Show more
Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope by Sophie Bond, Amanda Thomas, Gradon Diprose
$30.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: 1st
Lessons learned from the powerful climate justice campaign in Aotearoa New ZealandStopping Oil dives into the story of how deep-sea oil exploration became politicised in Aotearoa New Zealand, how community groups mobilised against it and the backlash that followed. It is also a story of activists exerci ...Show more
Stories from the Streets by MITCHELL. THERESA
$28.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Have you ever stopped to really consider what it's like to be homeless in Australia? Homelessness does not discriminate; no-one is immune - all people, from all walks of life, including families, children and the elderly, are at risk. In fact, statistics show we are all just one major trauma away from b ...Show more
Stuff They Don't Want You to Know by David Southwell; Graeme Donald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Taking each theory in turn, Stuff They Don't Want You to Know considers more than 80 conspiracies, examining the evidence and key suspects in an explosive account of the world's secrets. Meticulously researched, it contains fresh revelations on historical conspiracies that won't go away, as well as info ...Show more
Subimperial Power: Australia in the International Arena by Clinton Fernandes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A book to reshape Australians' understanding of their nation and themselvesHow does Australia operate in the world? And why? In this closely evidenced, original account, former Australian Army intelligence analyst Clinton Fernandes categorically debunks Australia's greatest myth- that of its own indepen ...Show more
Summertime: Reflections on a Fractured Future by Danielle Celermajer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Cele ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more