China Panic: Australia's Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering by David Brophy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an 'ocean of goodwill' between our country and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what's the way out?We hear, weekly, alarm ...Show more
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors by Tom Bower
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
Tom Bower, Britain's leading investigative biographer, unpicks the tangled web surrounding the Sussexes and their relationship with the royal family. From courtroom dramas to courtier politics, using extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews from insiders who have never spoken before, this book ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
How does Italy actually work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels ...Show more
Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia by Sophie Cousins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
The COVID-19 pandemic has with great speed fundamentally altered the world in which we live. The changes it has wrought are of a type and on a scale unseen by most people alive. We are realising the truths we understood as immutable, the basis of our social order, are not rigid and inevitable, but const ...Show more
Interior Silence: 10 Lessons From Monastic Life by Sarah Sands
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Category: Culture & Society
"Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on earth, and introduces us to people whose inner peace is a balm for our troubled times. I loved every page of it." - Nich ...Show more
The Rome Plague Diaries - Lockdown Life in the Eternal City by Matthew Kneale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
Freedom: The End of the Human Condition by JEREMY GRIFFITH
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Category: Culture & Society
The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery-the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our 'good and ev ...Show more
The Mutant Project - Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey
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Category: Culture & Society
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of the next scientific revolution to ask- whose values are guiding gene editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity? At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies ...Show more
Tightrope - Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn
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Category: Culture & Society
New York Times Best Seller "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."--Tara Westover, author of Educated With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrop ...Show more
Red Roulette - An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum
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Category: Culture & Society
'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith of power and money in 21st century China and whose wife was disappeared - and then mysteriously rea ...Show more
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love interest by taking revenge over a very F ...Show more
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Illustrated Edition by Peter Frankopan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world.Peter Frankopan, number one bestselling author and historian, explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in this extraordinary book about how the east married the wes ...Show more