Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also c ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more
Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made by David Gergen
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A powerful guide to the art of leadership from David Gergen--former White House adviser to four US presidents, CNN analyst, and founder of the Harvard Center for Public Leadership.As nations careen from one crisis to the next, there is a growing cry for fresh leadership. Those in charge have repeatedly ...Show more
How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and h ...Show more
Rise of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy by Lydia Khalil
$13.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
ASIO says right-wing extremism now makes up half its case load, and that it anticipates a terrorist attack on Australian soil within the year. There is a 250% increase in right-wing terrorism globally since 2014. But what exactly is right-wing extremism? Why is it a global problem? How does it threaten ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$47.95 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Mersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about ...Show more
What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics by Andrew Leigh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse. Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic event--for example, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or out- ...Show more
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly cont ...Show more
The Shortest History of Democracy by John Keane
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals.From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia - and not Athens - to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and ...Show more
Too Famous - The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting by Michael Wolff
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal attention became one of the world's most valua ...Show more