Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A masterclass on how politics works and how to achieve real change.In recent years, the world of politics has taken a series of disastrous wrong turns. We have witnessed leaders who can't - or shouldn't be allowed to - lead, policies that are either self-serving or don't work, and world views that are c ...Show more
The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider 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
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 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
Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West by Doug Stokes
$30.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across universities, fringe theories became the new orthodoxy, with a cadre of activists backed by university t ...Show more
New Domino Theory: Does China really want to attack Australia? Australian Foreign Affairs 19 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines China's ultimate goals as an emerging superpower, including the extent of its territorial ambitions. New Domino Theory looks at Australia's place in China's long-term plans and at the threat - if any - that Beijing poses to Australian security, pol ...Show more