Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
**WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE**'The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people.'Mail Online'You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.' Economist'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.' Times Literary Supplement'A future classic of disas ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
Recovery: How we can create a better, brighter future after a crisis by Andrew Wear
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In times of crisis lies opportunity. Recovery shows us how we can build back better after COVID-19.We have recovered from many crises in the past- war, depression, pandemic, natural disaster. Often, we've bounced back to create an even better future. The Spanish Flu was followed by the economic prosperi ...Show more
Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Our future hangs on the success of the Oxford vaccine.This is the story of its creation, its makers and how science will ultimately beat the virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within ...Show more
The Truth About China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers by Bill Birtles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Em ...Show more
An Insider's Plague Year by Peter Doherty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An illuminating glimpse into the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic from Australia's most prominent 'insider' In An Insider's Plague Year, Nobel laureate and prominent COVID-19 authority Professor Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020-February 20 ...Show more
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Oil. Corrupt? Yes. Unimaginably lucrative? Of course. But, the enemy of democracy? Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow. A blackly comic journey from Washington to Siberia ...Show more
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more