Benny the Blue Whale - A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT by Andy Stanton
39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A bestselling author and AI team up to write a novel. Chaos ensues.AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more...Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televis ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
The Future of Language - How Technology, Politics and Utopianism Are Transforming the Way We Communicate by Philip Seargeant
40.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives? Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future of Language distinguishes myth from reality and superstition from scientifically-based prediction as it p ...Show more
Micro Activism: How to Use Your Unique Talents to Make a Difference in the World by OMKARI WILLIAMS
27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In this age of activism, many people who aren't cut out to be leaders or protest marchers are left wondering, "How can I make an impact?" In Micro Activism, political consultant and life coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise in empowering introverts and highly sensitive people to help others find t ...Show more
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan
54.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century "Continuing Robert D. Kaplan's work as the premier American scholar of geopolitics . . . a book that everyone who wa ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
On the Voice to Parliament by Charles Prouse
16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Australia is on the brink of a landmark decision to establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament that will be enshrined in the Constitution. From there, treaty-making and truth-telling will follow. But how do we cut through the debate, get to the heart of the issue and vote in the best interests of In ...Show more
Megathreats: The Ten Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini
34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Reces ...Show more