Underground Asia - Global Revolutionaries and the Overthrow of Europe's Empires in the East by Tim Harper
$69.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widesp ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...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
Made in America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Bryson
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Ro ...Show more
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker; Carol D. Leonnig;
$30.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington DC, and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign alliances and tested American institutions. It would be all too easy to mistak ...Show more
Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin by Liam Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined earl ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Refugee Rights Policy Wrongs A Frank, Up-To-Date Guide by Experts by Jane McAdam; Fiona Chong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. The government seeks to `stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal. In this new book, Jane McAdam an ...Show more
Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires by Sally Young
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'A tour de force.' -- Professor Rodney Tiffen Beforenewspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. Thismagisterial book revealswho owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield politicalpower. ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$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