Pelosi by Molly Ball
$43.00 AUD
Category: Political
An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball She's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend Americ ...Show more
The Year 1000 - When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium. In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuri ...Show more
First among Equals - Australia's Prime Ministers from Barton to Morrison by Kim Wildman; Derry Hogue
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Trump is as bad as we thought, and worse. His reelection would be a disaster for democracy, for America, and the world as we know it. A thirty-year veteran of national political campaigns and one of the most famous ad makers in politics, Rick Wilson brings his experience, insight, knowledge, and signatu ...Show more
Internationalism or Extinction by Noam Chomsky; Charles Derber (Editor); Suren Moodliar (Editor); Paul Shannon (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Universalizing Resistance Ser.
In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats from ...Show more
The Lessons of Tragedy - Statecraft and World Order by Hal Brands; Charles Edel
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political
An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create ...Show more
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late ...Show more
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut' Antony Beevor'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' Max Hastings'Brilliant and sparkling ... reads like a thriller. I couldn't put it down' Peter Frankopan On a wet afternoon in Sep ...Show more
American Oligarchs - The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power by Andrea Bernstein
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
A multigenerational saga of two families who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of U.S. power that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein creates a vivid portrait of two emblematic American families. Their journ ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. From Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, to Kyiv, Siberia and Moscow, to Equatorial ...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
War for Eternity - The Rise of the Far Right and the Return of Traditionalism by Benjamin Teitelbaum
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Steve Bannon in the United States. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. Gabor Vona in Hungary. All rising to power in the past decade. All affiliated with an obscure philosophical movement called Traditionalism. Since the early 20th century, Traditionalism has defined itself against m ...Show more