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
The achievement of marriage equality in Australia in 2017 was hailed by many as the crowning event of a fifty-year story of hard work by activists, which began with campaigns to decriminalise sex between men in the early 1970s. In that same five decades, feminist activism, including campaigns for aborti ...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
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO by Peter Apps
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFEThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that ...Show more
The Wild Men - The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government by David Torrance
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Thoroughly researched...brings superbly to life figures whom history should not have forgotten - Simon Heffer, Daily TelegraphA highly readable, enjoyable and informative book - Financial TimesThe incredible story of the first Labour government, and the 'wild men' who shook up the British establishment. ...Show more
The Fight Is Here - Volodymyr Zelensky and the War in Ukraine by Simon Shuster
$42.99 AUD
Category: Political
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides.
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge
$59.99 AUD
Category: Political
This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty 'Exhilarating, brilliant and u ...Show more
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World & How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
From the 2023 Reith lecturer Politics is failing us. This is why. 'Brilliant . . . a must-read' Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations Fail When it comes to politics, there are five goals that voters generally agree upon. We all want a say in how we're governed, to be treated equally, a safety net ...Show more
The Dissident - Alexey Navalny Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
$43.00 AUD
Category: Political
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny-- lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war ...Show more
The Death of Consensus - 100 Years of British Political Nightmares by Phil Tinline
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled wit ...Show more