Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
Working for the World - The Evolution of Australian Volunteers International by Peter Britton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
Since 1951 thousands of volunteers from all over Australia have worked in developing countries across the world.This is the story of the organisation that made this possible, the Overseas Service Bureau later known as Australian Volunteers International. From its origins as a community-based association ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Kleptopia - How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World (US ED) by Tom Burgis
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' George Monbiot, Guardian 'When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down' Misha Glenny, autho ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
They Said No to Nixon - Republicans Who Stood up to the President's Abuses of Power by Michael Koncewicz
$40.95 AUD
Category: Political
"One reason Koncewicz's narrative is so compelling is that it's also a redemption story."--The Washington Post "Excruciatingly timely."--Kirkus Reviews In more than three thousand recorded conversations, the Nixon tapes famously exposed a president's sinister views of governance that would eventually ...Show more
Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
A masterful and eye-opening examination of Trump and the coercive control tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters written by "an authority on breaking away from cults...an argument that...bears consideration as the next election cycle heats up" (Kirkus Reviews). Since the 2016 ...Show more
Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity by Timothy Snyder
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think abou ...Show more
Green New Deal - Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-fossil fuel culture. A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and sett ...Show more
THE NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT Renewing the Liberal Vision for Australia by Tim Wilson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Kapunda Press Ser.
A new generation of Australians are walking away from the liberal promise and embracing socialism in a way that was unthinkable before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The New Social Contract offers a powerful proposal for restoring liberalism's appeal to Australian voters. It situates Australian liberali ...Show more
Republic of Wrath - How American Politics Turned Tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump by James A. Morone
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A prize-winning political scientist untangles the deep roots of tribalism in America.American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone shows that today's rancor isn't what's new -- the clarity of the battle lines is. Past eras wer ...Show more