Digital Empires - The Global Battle to Regulate Technology by Anu Bradford
$84.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The global battle among the three dominant digital powersDLthe United States, China, and the European UnionDLis intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$55.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Rise and Fall of the American Dream by DAVID. LEONHARDT
$37.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR) The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter. Two decades into the twenty-first ...Show more
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
$40.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis. 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New YorkerLydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life ...Show more
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Phil Plait
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thing you'd see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may ...Show more
This is Europe The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
$37.00 AUD
Category: European
What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossi ...Show more
AND THEN WHAT?: Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Ukraine, Iran and more to reveal how modern- day diplomacy really works.So much of modern-day diplomacy still takes place behind closed doors, away from cameras and prying eyes. So what does this vital role really loo ...Show more
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ... and Why Can't We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken
$35.00 AUD
Category: Health
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.It's not you, it's the food.We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially proc ...Show more
Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life by Peter Coveney,Roger Highfield
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher in a n ...Show more
Sacred Foundations - The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna Grzymala-Busse (Contribution by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: European
Sacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation. Existing accounts focus on early modern warfare or contracts between the rulers and the ruled. In contrast, this major study shows, that the Catholic Church both competed with medieval monarchs and pr ...Show more
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists. Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in mi ...Show more
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Simon Sharpe
$38.00 AUD
Category: Climate
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and ins ...Show more