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Current Affairs & Politics

Current Affairs & Politics

Stay informed with the latest in politics and current affairs. We publish books that take you behind the scenes of what is happening in your society; from politics and wars, to the environment and suburban life.

Dig down into the core of indigenous issues today with Russell Skelton's powerful and shaming portrait of a community in crisis King Brown Country.

Take a detailed tour of the possibilities and pitfalls inherent in the developing new world order in Doug Saunders' Arrival City.

Uncover Sex Lies & Pharmaceuticals as Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes reveal how women's deepest fears are to be exploited for the profit of corporations.

 

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Higher, Richer, Sleazier

Higher, Richer, Sleazier

by Roy Masters

A passionate polemic about money, sportsmanship, drugs and the future of sport, from a renowned former NRL coach and acclaimed and controversial journ... more

AUD $24.99

Planet Obesity

Planet Obesity

by Garry Egger and Boyd Swinburn

Explores how affluence and the development of new technologies has come at a huge, and potentially devastating, cost - an epidemic of obesity and a wo... more

AUD $24.99

More Money Than God

More Money Than God

by Sebastian Mallaby

The first book of its kind; a thorough and entertaining examination of hedge funds today.

AUD $35.00

Arrival City

Arrival City

by Doug Saunders

Explores how the movement of populations from rural to urban areas on the margins is reshaping our world and how these transitional spaces are where t... more

AUD $32.99

King Brown Country

King Brown Country

by Russell Skelton

Walkley award-winning journalist Russell Skelton presents a devastatingly revealing portrait of Papunya, a Western Desert community that once showed s... more

AUD $35.00

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals

Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals

by Ray Moynihan

A hard-hitting and provocative expose that takes us inside the corridors of medical power to watch the birth of the new 'disease' - Female Sexual Dysf... more

AUD $27.99

Dogs At War

Dogs At War

by Graeme Hughes

Both the autobiography of one of The Bulldogs' favoured sons and a revealing, insider's look at the workings of a football club, one that has experien... more

AUD $35.00

The Shallows

The Shallows

by Nicholas Carr

Is Google making us stupid? In this extraordinary new book, as incendiary as it's important, Nicholas Carr argues that the internet is changing dramat... more

AUD $32.99

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