Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists- asleep at the wheel (perhaps with the foot on the gas pedal) in the run-up to the great recession, squabbling about how to get out of it, tone-deaf in discussions of the plight of Greece or the Euro area; they seem to have l ...Show more
Don't Be Evil - How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world, but the ...Show more
Fascists Among Us by Jeff Sparrow
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents. The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The murders were not random. They expressed a particular ideology, one that the alleged perpetrator desc ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
The Bonjour Effect by Julie Barlow
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoit and Julie chronicle the le ...Show more
Meeting Saddam's Men by Ashton Robinson
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This book is Ashton Robinson's unique eye-witness account of the ISG's operations in Iraq, based at Camp Slayer, in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces the group's task was to search for weapons of mass destruction or to account for them if they did not exist. But the ISG discovered so much more. The ...Show more
The Coming Collapse of China by Gordon G. Chang
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This title predicts the imminent implosion of the economy and government of The People's Republic of China. Written by a Chinese American lawyer who has lived and worked in China for over 20 years, he brings his first-hand experience and economic expertise to this book.
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the ...Show more
How to Rig an Election by Nic Cheeseman; Brian Klaas
26.99 AUD
28.00 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
In this engaging and provocative work, the authors expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of tod ...Show more
True Stories - And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with p ...Show more