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Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange by Ashley Hay (Editor); Natasha Cica (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
Europe has been thrown into sharp relief by the impact of a devastating pandemic. As country after country succumbs to the contemporary plague, deeply buried memories of death and destruction resurface.But Europe has emerged from devastation before, and become stronger and more connected. A year ago Fre ...Show more
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
Behind the Lines: the Year's Best Political Cartoons 2020 by Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House (Produced by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
A companion to the Museum of Australian Democracy's Behind the Lines exhibition.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Barefoot Investor The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need by Scott Pape
$29.95 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
** Reviewed and updated for the 2020-2021 financial year** This is the only money guide you'll ever need That's a bold claim, given there are already thousands of finance books on the shelves. So what makes this one different? Well, you won't be overwhelmed with a bunch of 'tips' … or a strict budge ...Show more
F. L. Y. : Financially Literate Youth: Every Young Person's Go-To Guide for Life's Important Financial Decisions by Marlies Hobbs; Jai Hobbs
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
FLY- Financially Literate Youth is the perfect handbook for every young person who wants to be armed with the financial knowledge and confidence to set themselves up for success as they chart the course of their life. Whether they are contemplating leaving the nest or are already beginning to spread the ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future by Judith Brett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, accounting for over a third of coal exports worldwide. In 2018, coal overtook iron ore as our most valuable export. Scott Morrison’s government has embraced coal, doubling down on supporting the industry, calling climate-based boycotts of coal companies “i ...Show more
The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy by Melissa Davey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
Guardian Australia's Melbourne bureau chief Melissa Davey covered Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuses, and attended each of his trials for his alleged historic sexual offences against children--his committal hearing, mistrial, retrial, and appeal. What she sa ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more
Finding Resilience ... by Brian Walker
$45.00 AUD
$59.99 (24% off)
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless ja ...Show more
How to Win an Election by Wallace, Chris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking – including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but many Australian elections are very clo ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more