News: The Politics of Illusion by W. Lance Bennett
$69.70 AUD
Category: Political
Updated in a new 9th Edition, News: The Politics of Illusion, by W. Lance Bennett discusses and analyzes the dramatic shifts in news consumption and creation that have both ended and begun new eras of journalism in our time. How well does the news, as the core of the national political information syst ...Show more
When the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics and Policy in NSW 1930-32 by Geoff Robinson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
This book uses previously unexamined archival records and oral histories to show how Lang's government made policy, engaged with the bureaucracy and pushed the conventions of parliamentary democracy to the limit.
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering - their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the n ...Show more
Our Corrupt Legal System: Why Everyone is a Victim [except Rich Criminals] by Evan Whitton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Looks at the adversary system used in Britain and its former colonies, including Australia, the US, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa. Details the origins and methods of the more widespread investigative (inquisitorial) system used in other countries including Japan and South Korea. ...Show more
The Quest : Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
"The Quest" continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin began twenty years ago with his No.1 International Bestseller "The Prize", revealing the on-going quest to meet the world's energy needs - and the power and riches that come with it. A master story teller as well as our most expert analyst, Yergin p ...Show more
From Postbox to Powerhouse: A Centenary History of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Patrick Weller
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
Now a century old, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is at the heart of government in Australia. From Postbox to Powerhouse tracks its history, from its very humble beginnings as a department that did little more than circulate papers between other government departments. Since the start of W ...Show more
Deadly Waters: Inside the Hidden World of Somali Pirates by Jay Bahadur
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political
For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. The world sees nothing but opp ...Show more
True Blue: Strange Tales from a Tory Nation by Chris Horrie
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
Whatever happened to middle England? Two of our funniest writers set out on a journey through conservative country - with hilarious results. The Women's Institute. Polo matches. The Duke of Edinburgh. Nimbys, shooting and game fairs. Pall Mall clubs, the Countryside Alliance and Boris Johnson. Hampshir ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by Peter Canellos
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have p ...Show more
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ide ...Show more
Bean's Gallipoli - The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent by Kevin Fewster (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Probably no person saw more of the Anzacs in battle on Gallipoli than C.E.W. Bean. After sailing with the first convoy, he landed with them on that fateful first morning of April 25, 1915, and remained until the evacuation. His diary overflows with powerful descriptions of battle and touching eulogies t ...Show more