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What Is to Be Done: Political Engagement and Saving the Planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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, e ...Show more
The Palace Letters: The Queen, The Govenor General and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam. by Professor Jenny Hocking
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the lett ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
Change Machine by Jaya Savige
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies on the loss of a child appear alongside poems that set a pulse to new life, biomedical surveillance, leaf blowers ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics by Katharine Murphy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What has the coronavirus pandemic revealed about Scott Morrison, and where is he taking Australia? Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia, and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the res ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement Towards Voice, Treaty and Truth (HB) by Thomas Mayor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
An important and unique book that takes us into the lives of Indigenous people today, and offers constructive ideas about how we can live together, moving beyond the injustices of the past. This is a book for all Australians. Since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was formed in 2017, Thomas Mayor ...Show more
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen shows what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower -- a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly ap ...Show more
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideologic ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
The Little Book of Politics by DK
$16.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Packed with infographics and flowcharts that explain complex concepts in a simple but exciting way, this book is the perfect pocket-sized introduction to politics and political thought. From the origins of democracy to Machiavelli's cunning statecraft, Rousseau's "social contract" to the American Decla ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
