Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein
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Category: Politics | Series: A\Meditation Bk.
The ability to manipulate information has become the single most important element of success. High intelligence is an increasingly precious raw material. But despite decades of fashionable denial, the overriding and insistent truth about intellectual ability is that it is endowed unequally. In this aud ...Show more
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his redneck roots: 'the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks'. But he soon realised that these were the very people who had carried George W. Bush to victory. ...Show more
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know about the Voice by Megan Davis, George Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point?Everything You Need to Know About the Voice to Parliament, written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from t ...Show more
Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story by Mark Edele
$32.00 AUD
Category: Politics
An examination of the causes of the Russian invasion and its implications for the future In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conf ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
Babi Yar: The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust by A. Anatoli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all. 'So here is my invitation: enter into my fate, imagine that you are twelve, that the world is at war and that nobody knows what is going to happen next...'It was 1941 when the German army rolle ...Show more
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States by Emma Shortis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In Our Exceptional Friend, Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morality to mount a compelling and unique case as to why Australia's relationship with the United States needs a serious overhaul. Australians are told that we have two choices in this world: the United States, or ...Show more
So Greek: Confessions of a Conservative Leftie by Niki Savva
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbourne's working-class suburbs -- frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and Greek kids spo ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva
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Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
'There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.'-Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott's performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was inconsistent, and -?his colleagues thought?-?slightly ridiculous ...Show more
Inside the Greens: The True Story of the Party, the Politics and the People by Paddy Manning
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Category: Politics
A revelatory examination of the history and the future of the Australian Greens. After a decade of unprecedented political volatility, Australians appear increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties. Yet the Greens, the third force in Australian politics since the turn of the century, get comp ...Show more