Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future by Beth Gardiner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The landmark book on air pollution: a major threat to the health and longevity of each and every one of us
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. 'An eye-watering account of the president's abuse of the rules of golf' The Sunday Times 'Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all his courses combined. It is by turns amusing a ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. From Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, to Kyiv, Siberia and Moscow, to Equatorial ...Show more
Burn: Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia by COLLINS Paul
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in Australia. In Burn, Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushifire in Australia, drawing on accounts of the most de ...Show more
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan ...Show more
Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin by Liam Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined earl ...Show more
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, A National Book Award Finalist A profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a black father for his son, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
$18.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more
Asian Waters - The Struggle over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries. China, Vietnam, Korea and Indonesia assert their right to trade routes, deploying military garri ...Show more
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experien ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion And Principle - The Biography by Margaret Simons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from workplace relations to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide. In this first-ever biography of Penny Wong, a ...Show more
A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The acclaimed author of AMERICAN DIRT reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book: the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A RIP IN HEAVEN is Jeanine Cummins' story of a night in April, 1991, when her two co ...Show more