Trigger Points - Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America by Mark Follman
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
"An urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change." --John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood For the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings--a hopeful, myth- ...Show more
Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom by Thomas G. West
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders’ political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas. The book is intended as a response to the current scholarly consensus, which holds that the Found ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama.Tingle notes that leaders must command not only their country, but also their party. Where do ...Show more
American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information" American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive inter ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$27.99 AUD
Category: New 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
God Save the Queen: The Strange Persistence of Monarchies by Dennis Altman
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies.An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies.When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
$36.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity by Raina MacIntyre
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.In Dark Winter, world-leading epidemiologist Professor Raina MacIntyre navigates the past, present and future of pandemics and biosecurity. MacIntyre exam ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball by Noam Cohen
$36.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
How the titans of tech's embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner place In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam Cohen chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American ...Show more
CRABGRASS FRONTIER by Kenneth T. Jackson
$43.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architecturalanalysis, and ta ...Show more
Crashed - How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehm ...Show more