Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capit ...Show more
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This journalist's portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is "a book of great economy and power with] a supreme sense of the absurd" (New Republic). Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense o ...Show more
How Democracies Die - What History Reveals about Our Future by Steve Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political
How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Z ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine In a newly updated edition of Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
Personal Politics - Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia by Leigh Boucher; Michelle Arrow; Barbara Baird; Robert Reynolds
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
God, Guns, and Sedition - Far-Right Terrorism in America by Bruce Hoffman; Jacob Ware
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: A\Council on Foreign Relations Book Ser.
Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the lat ...Show more
The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America by Daniel Shea, Nicholas F. Jacobs
$62.95 AUD
Category: Political
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victo ...Show more
Adventures in Democracy by Erica Benner
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
A political philosopher explores the elusive promises of popular government around the world 'There's no simple way to measure how strong a democracy is, or how weak.' Democracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in kee ...Show more