My Promised Land - The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I d ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...Show more
The Coming Wave: A.I., Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recent ...Show more
Zelensky The Frontline President by Andrew L. Urban, Chris Mcleod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The message from the free world to Russian President Putin has always been clear: Leave Ukraine alone... get out! What Russia thought would be a three-day hit-and-run mission to oust the Ukraine government of Volodymyr Zelensky was an abject failure. The message from the free world to Russian President ...Show more
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care) by Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Understand the news stories that matter. Be part of the important conversations. And feel confident - whether you're walking into a date, a work event or a voting booth. From the creators of the phenomenally successful news service The Daily Aus comes your ultimate playbook for how the world works.Do yo ...Show more
Spin Dictators by Daniel Treisman; Sergei Guriev
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recap Tayyip Erdog ...Show more
The Storm Is Here - America on the Brink by Luke Mogelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.'This is a searing book, exquisitely reported, lyrically told, and so vivid it will make your ...Show more
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea by Jonathan White
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the current climate crisis Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and p ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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