Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
Provocations: New and selected writing by Jeff Sparrow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Genuine radicalism depends on the provision of hope. It provokes through a scandalous insistence that life can be otherwise, that we aren’t doomed to economic and environmental decline, and that the future can exceed than the past.’Jeff Sparrow is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. From g ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
Putin vs. the People - The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene; Graeme B. Robertson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance of support for Putin amid deepening disillusionment ...Show more
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multi-faceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a super-power ...Show more
Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution by Samuel Ramani
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin viewed this attack on a neighbour as a legacy-defining mission, which sought to restore a central element of Russia’s sphere of influence and undo Ukraine’s surprisingly resilient demo ...Show more
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A playbook for the future of the internet written by the world's most successful blockchain investor What will the internet of the future look like? The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of unbridled innovation. In the past decade, the internet ...Show more
Right Here, Right Now by Natalie Isaacs
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The climate action countdown and how women can lead the way In this inspiring think piece and call to action, the founder and CEO of the global climate action movement 1 Million Women explains why the place for climate action is here, why the time is now and how women can work together to lead the way. ...Show more
Russia Without Putin - Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War by Tony Wood
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the world and dominates Western media coverage. But, as Tony Wood argues, the obsessive focus on Putin gets in the way of any real understand ...Show more
Should All Drugs Be Legalized?: A primer for the 21st century by Mattha Busby
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Big Idea Ser.
A timely re-examination of the pros and cons of legalizing drug use. Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this book provides a survey of the history of drug use, a review of the impact of the war on drugs, an appraisal of the effects of legal vs illegal drugs an ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more