The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crowis such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, ...Show more
Smile Or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
A brilliant, savagely funny attack on the cult of positive thinking - Ehrenreich's most compelling book since Nickel and Dimed. In this highly original and hugely entertaining account, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the cult of positive thinking in America. She examines the impact of positive thinking on ...Show more
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
$23.00 AUD
Category: American
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
$28.00 AUD
Category: American
A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a ...Show more
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantThe Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant; John F. Marszalek; David S. Nolen; Louie P. Gallo; Frank J. Williams
$65.95 AUD
Category: American
"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the reader's enjoyment of Grant's fluent narrative."--Ron Ch ...Show more
The Girl With No Name by Marina Chapman
$20.00 AUD
Category: American
A young girl who is abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle. She spends five years living with a family of monkeys before being found and sold in to slavery. This is her truly astonishing story.
Traitor - A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump by David Rothkopf
$50.00 AUD
Category: American
"Rothkopf does a brilliant job defining precisely how Trump has been aiding and abetting the enemy... compelling." --Financial Times Political historian and commentator David Rothkopf shows how Trump will be judged by history (Spoiler alert: not well) in Traitor. Donald Trump is unfit in almost every ...Show more
Culture Warlords - My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
$33.00 AUD
Category: American
"Lavin writes like her hands are on fire, forcing us to take a hard look at our ugliest truths." - Pamela Collof, The New York Times Magazine & Pro Publica Talia Lavin is every fascist's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic young Jewish woman, with the online investigative know-how to expose the ...Show more
American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution by EKIRCH A. ROGER
$28.00 AUD
Category: American
We Should Have Seen It Coming - From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution by Gerald F. Seib
$60.00 AUD
Category: American
The executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing rise, climax, and decline of one of the great political movements in American history--the forty-year reign of the conservative movement, from the election of Ronald Reagan to the Republican Party's takeover by Donald ...Show more
Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...Show more
Evil Geniuses - The Unmaking of America: a Recent History by Kurt Andersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: American
When did America give up on fairness? The New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change--and charts a way back to the future. "The one book everyone must re ...Show more