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  • A Different Kind of Power

    A memoir

    by Jacinda Ardern ...
    What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made political history and changed our ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Abundance

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future

    by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson ...
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BEST SUMMER BOOK and MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 FROM THE FINANCIAL TIMES and NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB'Downing Street's current hot read' Andrew Marr'Spectacular ... Inspires hope' New York Times**'Forceful, quick-moving ... important' Financial Times'Ambitious' New Yor... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Talking To My Country

    The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead

    by Stan Grant ...
    The acclaimed national bestseller - moving, passionate, deeply felt and powerful.In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Cheng Lei

    The extraordinary memoir of surviving China's secret prisons for readers of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Peter Greste, and Sean Turnell

    by Cheng Lei ...
    The extraordinary true story of journalist Cheng Lei whose life was abruptly transformed when she was detained in China on false charges of espionage.Journalist Cheng Lei spent more than three gruelling years in a Beijing prison after being wrongly accused of espionage. Harrowing, fierce and often darkly humorous, her memoir is about the power of the human spirit; bravery in the face of cruelty ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

    by Patrick Radden Keefe ...
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYNow an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+'Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century' Nick HornbyFrom the author of Empire of Pain – a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Murriyang

    Song of Time

    by Stan Grant ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Social Impact Book of the YearStan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness, rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra – deep silence and respect.**Murriyang, in part Grant’s response to the Voice ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

    by Omar El Akkad ...
    From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Landfall

    The totally propulsive crime mystery suspense thriller from the award-winning author of Clade

    by James Bradley ...
    'Propulsive' GUARDIAN'Unmissable' HEATHER CRITCHLOW'Masterful' SARA FOSTERThe world is in the grip of climate catastrophe. Sydney has been transformed by rising sea levels, soaring temperatures and increasingly intense social division and unrest.When a child on the margins goes missing from the area of the city known as the Floodline, Senior Detective Sadiya Azad is assigned to find her. But when ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Silk Silver Opium

    The Trade with China that Changed History

    by Michael Pembroke Hon Justice ...
    Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable – war and humiliation.Much about China's modern relationship with the West is the product of its past inter-reactions, conflicts, victories and humiliations. The South China Sea was the place from where the ultimately ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

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  • Kosciuszko

    The incredible life of the man behind the mountain

    by Anthony Sharwood ...
    Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds out why he's the hero the world needs right now.Kosciuszko - our iconic highest mountain - is a name ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Thinking Machine

    Jensen Huang and Nvidia, the company shaping the future of AI

    by Stephen Witt ...
    AI tech giant Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft.It has shaped the world as we know it.This is the inside story of the company that is inventing the future and its charismatic CEO Jensen Huang.‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming WaveIn June 2024, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • A Warning

    by Anonymous Anonymous ...
    An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its writer anonymity. Described only as "a senior official in the Trump administration," the author provided ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Prison notebooks - Gramsci

    by Antonio Gramsci ...
    Antonio Francesco Gramsci (1891 — 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, literary critic, linguist, historian, and politician. He wrote extensively on political theory, sociology, anthropology, history, and linguistics. Gramsci was elected as a deputy for the Italian Communist Party and spent eight years in prison under Mussolini's orders.From the period of his imprisonment, two ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD

  • SAS Insider

    An elite SAS fighter on life in Australia's toughest and most secretive combat unit

    by Clint Palmer, Robert Macklin ...
    Series Book 3 - Hachette Military Collection
    The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS.As a bush kid in the ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Martin Bunton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles in history. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton clearly explains the history of the problem, reducing it to its very essence - a modern territorial contest between two nations and one geographical territory. Adopting a fresh and original approach, each section ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • The Codebreakers

    The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

    by David Kahn ...
    The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret.Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the ... Read more

    $69.99 AUD

  • What Is Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism?

    SHORT STORY # 53. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

    by Alla P. Gakuba ...
    Series Book 53 - Nonfiction series
    What is capitalism, socialism, and communism? The author is very much familiar with both systems. She lived under socialism (in the former Soviet Union) and under capitalism (in the USA). The story gave definitions and introduced advantages and disadvantages of each system.Why countries have chosen to have a capitalism or a socialism system? In reality, there in no one country in the world that ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • It’s Not Fair

    why it’s time for a grown-up conversation about how adults treat children

    by Eloise Rickman ...
    Why do some adults think it’s fine to hit children? Why does the school system fail so many pupils? And when their future is on the line, why can’t children vote?How we treat children isn’t fair. Despite the lip service paid to their rights, children are still discriminated against in every aspect of their lives: rising levels of child poverty, underfunded and outdated education and childcare ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • The End of Empathy

    Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors

    by John W. Compton ...
    When polling data showed that an overwhelming 81% of white evangelicals had voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, commentators across the political spectrum were left aghast. Even for a community that had been tracking further and further right for decades, this support seemed decidedly out of step. How, after all, could an amoral, twice-divorced businessman from New York ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

  • Our Final Invention

    Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

    by James Barrat ...
    'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one' Washington Post'The best book yet written on the most important problem of the twenty-first century' Luke Muehlhauser, Executive Director, Machine Intelligence Research ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Why Empires Fall

    Rome, America and the Future of the West

    by John Rapley, Peter Heather ...
    What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

    by John Bardes, Karen Cook Bell, Associate Professor of History, Daryl A. Carter, Beau D. Cleland, Emmanuel Dabney, Adam H. Domby, Myisha S. Eatmon, Barbara Gannon, Scott Hancock, William Horne, LeeAnna Keith, Jonathan Lande, Anne Marshall, Jaime Amanda Martinez, Nicole Turner, Samuel Watts ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Trade Wars Are Class Wars

    How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

    by Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis ...
    Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers“The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through history and offer opinions about what went right and what went wrong . . . Worth reading for their insights into the history of trade and ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • Great Game On

    The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy

    by Geoff Raby ...
    Great Game On is the story of the remaking of the world order. Historically, China has sought its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence. Its expanding role and influence in Central Asia has been as incremental and piecemeal as it has been deliberate. Without firing a shot, China could potentially end the United States' international primacy to ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD