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The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
Play by the Rules: The Short Story of American Leadership by Michael Pembroke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
In Play by the Rules, acclaimed writer and historian Michael Pembroke offers a fresh take on the USA's vast influence and asks whether it is still a force for good. The United States of America has long claimed to be the leader of the 'free world', however for the last seventy-five years, as it has rout ...Show more
Glimpses of Utopia by Jess Scully
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
Can We Trust America: Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 8 Australian Foreign Affairs 8 by Jonathan Pearlman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
The eighth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the changing status of the United States as its dominance in the Asia-Pacific faces challenge from China and its "America First" foreign policy marks a shift away from global engagement. Can We Trust America? looks at the uncertainties for Austral ...Show more
People Without Power: The war on populism and the fight for democracy by Thomas Frank
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
An eye-opening account of populism, the most important -- and misunderstood -- movement of our time. Everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today, populism is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But th ...Show more
How to Sell A Massacre by CHARLEY PETER
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TVIn 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary entitled How to Sell a Massacre. The result of an audacious three-year infiltration of the US National Rifle Association, the do ...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
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
Penny Wong: The Biography by Margaret Simons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from workplace relations to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide. In this first-ever biography of Penny Wong, a ...Show more
Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
'The next Bill Bryson' (New York Times) explores international relations past and present between three East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea and China - in this lively, absorbing travelogue China, Korea and Japan are the neighbours who love to hate each other. But why? More than neighbours, these ...Show more
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
$20.00 AUD
Category: Political
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies colla ...Show more