Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction by Christopher Wright
$49.95 AUD
Category: Political
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping politic ...Show more
How Long Will South Africa Survive?The Looming Crisis by R. W. Johnson
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again. "The big question about ANC rule," Joh ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
Settling the Office by Paul Strangio, Paul T'Hart, James Walter
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation throug ...Show more
Firm Commitment: Why the Corporation is Failing Us and How to Restore Trust in it by Colin Mayer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Political
The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a substantial proportion of the wealth that we possess. But ...Show more
World Order by Henry Kissinger
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
Walter Isaacson, Time: “Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book.” Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling t ...Show more
Hardball How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game by Chris Matthews
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
How politics is played by one who knows the game...host of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews.Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revise ...Show more
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is the story of how state, law and democrac ...Show more
The Origins Of Political Order: From pre-human times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the p ...Show more
Machine Rules A Political Primer by Stephen Loosely
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
But does a powerbroker like Stephen Loosley ever leave the political word? In his candid memoir, Loosley writes about defending the indefensible, the best way to start and kill off rumours, the value of truth in campaigning, how to use humour to squash a scandal, the key to fundraising and why bullshit ...Show more
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality - On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
With an exclusive introduction by the acclaimed Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes, this is the complete text of the landmark encyclical letter by Pope Francis that has 'rocked the international community' (Time). The only secular edition of the Pope's remarks, the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequali ...Show more
The Reith Papers by Peter K. Reith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Peter Reith was a senior federal Cabinet minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the face of the Coalition government's tough waterfront reforms, a major contributor to the Fightback! policy, a potential leader of the Liberal Party, the architect of sweeping industrial laws and defence minister during the ti ...Show more