No Man's Land: The Untold Story of Automation on QF72 by Kevin Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
nstinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 ...Show more
All This in 60 Minutes by Nicholas Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia's most-respected and most-watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton, Mike Munro, Jennifer Byrne, Liz Hayes and Tara Brown, among many others. All This in 60 Minu ...Show more
Making Headlines by Chris Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for over a dozen years. In this humorous and revealing book he gives first hand details about the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and med ...Show more
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The First Casualty: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism by Peter Greste
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalism has become the new battleground. Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threat ...Show more
Not Quite Australian by Peter Mares
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Permanent migration has long been vital to the story of Australia. From the arrival of early settlers to waves of post-war immigration, the symbolic moment of disembarking onto Australian soil is an image deeply embedded in our nation's consciousness. Today, there are more than million temporary migran ...Show more
Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more
The Hunt for MH370 by Ean Higgins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Somewhere out in the wild seas of the southern Indian Ocean, in the underwater canyons of Broken Ridge near the alien sub-terrain known as the Seventh Arc lies the answer to the world's greatest aviation mystery.Why, on the night of 8 March 2014, did Malaysia Flight MH370 suddenly U-turn on the trip fro ...Show more
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie Wood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about t ...Show more
FAKE - Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets - How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer by Robert T Kiyosaki
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
Robert Kiyosaki -- author of the #1 Personal Finance book of all time -- has built a legacy around simplifying complex and often-confusing subjects like money and investing. He continues to challenge conventional wisdom and asks the questions that will help readers sift through today's information overl ...Show more
Greta Thunberg (I Know This to Be True): On Truth, Courage and Saving Our Planet by Geoff Blackwell; Greta Thunberg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
One of the leading contemporary voices on climate change, Greta Thunberg answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to her.
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam SangheraAward-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from pre ...Show more