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Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy by Zainab Usman
$0.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa Ser.
Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the 'curse' of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria's major development challe ...Show more
Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections That Shaped Australia by Frank Bongiorno (Editor); Benjamin T. Jones (Editor); John Uhr (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Politics Ser.
In a world of fake news and populist politics, elections can seem like theatre. With growing rates of informal votes and a perceived narrowing of differences between the major parties, do Australian elections really matter? Taking ten examples, this book argues that elections do matter (even when you th ...Show more
Europe at the Gates: In the Era of Brexit and Trump by Guy Rundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Politics
The people of France went to the polls in 2017, narrowly avoiding elevating President Le Pen, a year after `Brexit' and Trump had stood the world on its ear. In Brussels, the EU's leaders consign Greece to despair, pure colonial repression. In Scandinavia, nativist parties take the place social democrat ...Show more
Holding on by Mervyn Jones
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: History and Politics
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser.
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Terror in France : The Rise of Jihad in the West by Gilles (INT) Gilles; Kepel Kepel
$60.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafes and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a truck ...Show more
The Laundromat: Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein
$23.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: politics
Now a major motion picture.The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstien takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions ...Show more
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$55.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations base ...Show more
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