Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity by Ross Garnaut
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality- Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world.'-Ross Garnaut We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the ...Show more
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! "Gretchen McCulloch is the internet's favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix." --Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever ...Show more
1947 - When Now Begins by Elisabeth Asbrink; Fiona Graham (translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age -- the one we call now. This shift does not happen overnight, from one day to the next; instead, the world vibrates for a number of years. People try to find their way back to homes that are no longer there, or on to an u ...Show more
Adults In The Room - My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famouseconomist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.Varoufak ...Show more
Budapest - Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, were all agreed: the best thing about Budapest is its position. With the Danube, Budapest forms one of the most beautiful cityscapes that exist along a river.T ...Show more
Legitimate Sexpectations: The Power of Sex-Ed by Katrina Marson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Can we promise future generations a life free of sexual violence, in which their sexual wellbeing will be protected? Is this a promise we can keep?As a sexual offences prosecutor, Katrina Marson works for an institution that can only respond, one case at a time, to sexual violence once the damage is alr ...Show more
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labour Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'Chokepoint Capitalism tells us how the vampires crashed the party, and provides protective garlic.'-Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the ...Show more
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World by Elle Hardy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Neo-Charismatic Pentecostalism has some 600 million followers worldwide, and by 2050 their numbers will grow to 1 billion: that's one in ten people. This i ...Show more
The Most Important Job In The World by Gina Rushton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Should we become parents? It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world as it is now and as it will be. When Gina Rushton admitted she had little time left to make the decision for herself, the magnitude of the choice overwh ...Show more