Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
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Category: Current Affairs
Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Heidi Blake uncovers exclusive details of Vladimir Putin's worldwide meddling with dissident voices. This is the explosive and true story of how Russia operates in our cities, right under the noses of the most powerful nations in the world, and why even they can't stop ...Show more
The Great Cave Rescue by James Massola
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Category: Current Affairs
The complete story of the miraculous rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team boys and their coach in Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand in July 2018. Keen to go exploring after soccer practice, the boys of the Wild Boars soccer team ignored the sign at the cave entrance warning visitors not to enter duri ...Show more
History of the World Map by Map by DK
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Category: Current Affairs
Much more than a history atlas, this book drops you right in the heart of the action, as 130 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the race for space. After the foreword written by renowned broadcaster and historian Peter Snow ...Show more
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
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Category: Current Affairs
Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.
Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Category: Current Affairs
A powerful and provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge In February 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way discussions of race and racism in Britain were constantly being led by those who weren't aff ...Show more
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America by Jonathan Chait
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: General Adult
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded he ...Show more
In the Company of Cowards by Michael Mori
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Category: Current Affairs
On a beautiful, balmy evening in Cuba in 2007, David Hicks walked out of Guantanamo Bay, in that moment ceasing to be a detainee of the United States and regaining his rights as an Australian citizen. Watching on was the man who had fought for four long years for Hicks's right to go home: Major Michael ...Show more
Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening by Maajid Nawaz
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Category: Current Affairs
"Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music, graffiti and girls, he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir(the Liberation Party) where he played a leading and international role in the shaping and dissemination of an aggress ...Show more
Counting SheepThe Pastoral Heritage of Britain by Philip Walling
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Category: Current Affairs
Sheep are the thread that runs through the history of the English countryside. Our fortunes were once founded on sheep, and this book tells a story of wool and money and history, of merchants and farmers and shepherds, of English yeomen and how they got their freedom, and above all, of the soil. Sheep h ...Show more
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Current Affairs
What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle, such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan, or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse? I decided on the simplest approach possible. I would ask a few of the astronauts and find out - The men had it. Yeager. ...Show more