Windsor's Way by Tony Windsor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
With neither side of Parliament receiving a clear majority at the 2010 election, Tony Windsor was placed in a balance of power situation along with five other crossbench members of the House of Representatives. He had already been in this sort of situation once before, in 1991, when he became the indepe ...Show more
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by Peter Warren Singer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"riveting and comprehensive, encompassing every aspect of the rise of military robotics." --Financial Times In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the greatest revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare. We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technolog ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
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Category: Current Affairs
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more
World Order by Henry Kissinger
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As Henry Kissinger observes in this magisterial book, there has never been a true "world order". For most of history, civilizations have defined their own concepts of order, each one envisioning its distinct principles as universally relevant. Now, as international affairs take place on a global basis, ...Show more
World Poverty for Dummies by Sarah Marland
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: For Dummies Ser.
Created especially for the Australian customer Uncover the global building blocks of poverty Ending world poverty is possible -- and you can help. With World Poverty For Dummies, you find out about the building blocks of poverty, as well as its varying causes and manifestations in different regions ar ...Show more
Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth by Patrick Nunn
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Category: Current Affairs
The traces of much of human history and that which preceded it lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent de ...Show more
Year It All Fell Down by Bob Ellis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A very readable, occasionally apocalyptic, almanac of ''interesting times''.' The Age '★★★★★ He...write[s] like an angel, albeit an avenging one with a taste for the salacious' Good Reading In 2011, history was made and the future broken... One of our most incisive and eloquent observers, Bob Ellis h ...Show more
Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden by Branko Marcetic
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Yesterday's Man exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States' longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called "Middle- Class Joe" served as a key architect of the Democratic Party's rightward turn, ushering in the ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
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Category: Current Affairs
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more