Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
Category: Current Affairs
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner
Category: Current Affairs
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel - the last fifteen for The New York Times - presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country's history. A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portr ...Show more
Pandora's Box - The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television by Peter Biskind
Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls chronicles the heady rise and fall of television The revolution has been televised. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
Category: Current Affairs
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: 50 cards to protect your energy and find self-love by Florence Given
Category: Current Affairs
Be brave and bold - there's nobody quite like you - it's time to recognize your confidence and express your true self brazenly.In a fast-paced world, sometimes it's easy to lose sight of the things that make us extraordinary and brilliant and shake our confidence. However, we all need to take time to si ...Show more
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin
Category: Current Affairs
The first account from a prisoner of war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A shocking, hugely powerful memoir by British-born Ukrainian marine Aiden Aslin, who spent six months in Russian captivity.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing ...Show more
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid our mistakes, to be better, to make the world better? ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
Category: Current Affairs
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
We Are Not Alone - The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies by Marc Hartzman
Category: Current Affairs
Do you want to believe? Explore our fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence through exclusive interviews, archival photos, and strange but true stories from history. After decades of cover-ups and denials, in a June 2021 report, the US government finally admitted what many people al ...Show more
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
Category: Current Affairs
An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment syste ...Show more
The Divider - Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."--The Washington Post * A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times"A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."--NPR.comThe insid ...Show more
A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy by Gordon Conochie
Category: Current Affairs
Cambodia’s Hun Sen is the world’s longest-serving prime minister, in power since 1985. In 2013, Sen’s rule came under threat when the exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, unexpectedly returned just before a national election. One hundred thousand supporters hailed him at the airport as protests swept t ...Show more