Rogue Nation by Royce Kurmelovs
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism. The ...Show more
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy by Noam Chomsky
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course ...Show more
The Ascent to Power, 1996: The Howard Government, volume 1 by Tom Frame
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Ascent to Power, 1996 takes a critical look at the Howard Government's rise to power; its policies and priorities, successes and shortcomings in what Paul Kelly calls the `foundational year'. This first of four volumes on the Howard Government's nearly 12 years in office draws on unpublished documen ...Show more
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath an ...Show more
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin by David Satter
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took s ...Show more
From the Company of Shadows by Kevin Michael Shipp
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
From the Company of Shadows. Read firsthand accounts of fascinating events inside the CIA. Learn how the CIA conducts operations, recruits agents and protects defectors from assassination. Understand the current global and domestic threat of terrorism from the perspective of a decorated CIA officer. Rea ...Show more
Revolution by Emmanuel Macron; Jonathan Goldberg (Translator); Juliette Scott (Translator)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
The bestselling memoir by France's president, Emmanuel Macron. Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilization is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect ourselves from the great transformations taking pla ...Show more
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove th ...Show more
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard N. Haass
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A World in Disarray is a wise and visionary examination of the current world by Richard Haass, the president of the US Council on Foreign Relations. It is rich in history, examining how we got where we are today, and what needs doing to make things better. Haass shows that the world cannot have stabilit ...Show more
Truth about Trump by Michael D'Antonio
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters struggled to be ...Show more
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information by John Lloyd
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the vast political power of Rupert Murdoch's News International and the merger of television and politics in Italy, to the part that Facebook and Twitter played in the Arab revolts and the radical openness stimulated by WikiLeaks, and from the growing worldwide power of public relations and the dec ...Show more