The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsua ...Show more
Twentysomething Treatment by Meg Jay
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Category: Current Affairs
In Skills Over Pills, clinical psychology Dr Meg Jay sounds the alarm about a problem which has reached epidemic proportions: the over-prescription of antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs to young people who are in many cases going through normal developmental challenges. Psychologist, Dr Meg Jay mak ...Show more
JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson
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Category: Politics
The truth behind the assassination of JFK - reissued and updated for the sixtieth anniversary Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US of ...Show more
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the Victorian War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
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Category: Popular Science
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age.In 1811, a twelve-year-old ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
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Category: 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 televisi ...Show more
Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World by Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An insightful playbook for getting out of the permacrisis we seem mired in’ - Walter Isaacson ‘A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world’ - Sheryl Sandberg Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world. ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
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Category: General Non Fiction
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
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Category: Politics
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
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Category: Current Affairs
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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Category: Politics
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more