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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 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
Lead the Way: How to Change the World, from the Frontline of the Schoolstrikes by Jean Hinchcliffe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Lead the Way is your ultimate guide to activism and making systematic change, your way. Jean Hinchliffe is one of the key organisers of School Strikes 4 Climate, and in this book she shares her tools, stories and learnings from the movement with you. From identifying your cause to finding allies, planni ...Show more
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. ...Show more
Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...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
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
$26.95 AUD
Category: Politics
A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Ha ...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
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
Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton; Alex Joske (Contribution by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
The Inner Sanctum - Secrets of Australia's Most Private Leaders by DAMON. KITNEY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Inner Sanctum is a sample of Damon Kitney's finest catch over a decade of working for The Australian newspaper.It is a product of his firm belief that behind the share prices, EBITDA and endless sanitized investor briefings, it is still human beings that are our leaders. From Mike Cannon-Brookes nur ...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 | Reading Level: very good
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
