Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: International | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$49.99 AUD
Category: International | Reading Level: near fine
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, ec ...Show more
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Philip Carol; Rucker Leonnig
$29.99 AUD
Category: International
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he r ...Show more
Guilty Admissions - The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal by Nicole LaPorte
$39.99 AUD
Category: International
This entertaining expos on how the other half gets in tells the shockingly true story of the Varsity Blues scandal, and all of the crazy parents, privilege, and con men involved. Guilty Admissions weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he preyed on the ...Show more
The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia by Andrew Scott, Rod Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: International
How the Nordic approach can shape Australia's future for betterClimate and energy. Work/life balance. Mining taxes. Progress on policy issues like these is essential, and yet they have become subject to the most rancorous partisanship, the precipitation of culture wars, and have brought down governments ...Show more
The War on Normal People - The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
$22.99 AUD
Category: International
From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward automation ...Show more
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
$19.99 AUD
Category: International
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-y ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$32.99 AUD
Category: International
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$9.99 AUD
$24.99 (60% off)
Category: International
The Ukrainian people's message to the world - the only book officially authorised by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the ...Show more
Can We Talk about Israel? - A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch; Christopher Noxon (Illustrator)
$36.99 AUD
Category: International
From the expert who understands both sides of one of the world's most complex, controversial topics, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexed-a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?" This is the question Daniel ...Show more
The Chief Witness: escape from China's modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius
$35.00 AUD
Category: International
A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes - and the story of one woman's fight to survive.I will never forget the camp. I cannot forget the eyes of the prisoners, expecting me to do something for them. They are innocent. I have to tell their story, to tell about the darkness they ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$29.99 AUD
Category: International | Reading Level: very good
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more