Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him. F ...Show more
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they coul ...Show more
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to dr ...Show more
Hard Labour: wage theft in the age of inequality by Ben Schneiders
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A startling investigation of how some of Australia's best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years. Whether it's at McDonald's, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billion ...Show more
Internet-Linked Atlas of Discovery by JACARANDA
$51.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Covers amazing places, natural and built environments, people and culture - a world that challenges students to inquire, investigate, discover and understand.
Adrift - How the World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf; Frank Wynne (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. "Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor." -- The New York Times Book Review The United ...Show more
Stern Justice: The Forgotten Story of Australia, Japan and the Pacific War Crimes Trials by Adam Wakeling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
'For the first time Australia speaks, not for herself alone, but for the whole British Commonwealth.' So wrote a journalist about the Tokyo trials of the Japanese military for war crimes. Australia played a key role in these trials, and in others held elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, including Manus Islan ...Show more
People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West by Waleed Aly
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: very good
No two civilisations have spoken so many words about each other in recent years as those of Islam and the West. And no two seem to have communicated less. People Like Us confronts the themes that define this chasm head-on: women, jihad, secularism, terrorism, reformation and modernity. Its piercing exam ...Show more
Posthuman Glossary by Braidotti, Rosi, Hlavajova, Maria
$69.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide by Karl Weber
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer and What You Can Do About It.Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by "Entertainment Weekly" as "more than a terrific movi ...Show more
We See It All: Liberty and Justice in the Age of Perpetual Surveillance by Jon Fasman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
An investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology, asking the question- what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety? The police now have unparalleled power at their fingertips- s ...Show more
Brave New Humans - The Dirty Reality of Donor Conception by Sarah Dingle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: good
An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative exposé, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its very human fallout. Journalist Sarah Dingle was 27 when she learnt that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah ha ...Show more