Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Toxic Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The inside story of a band of hackers who were hired to fix Facebook - and came to question whether it was beyond saving.Facebook knew it had a problem. The company had been humiliated by headlines, painted as complicit in the election of Trump and in an assault on the global social fabric. Their stated ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
The Manner of their Going: Prime Ministerial exits in Australia by Norman Abjorensen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Politics
For those who want to understand Australian politics today - Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Has the job of prime minister become more difficult? It has certainly become more insecure, with six changes in the eleven years between 2007 and 2018. Here is the story of how all twenty ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
Living Democracy: An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World As We Know It by Tim Hollo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
There's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of ecological crises, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, and a post-truth in politics that's divorced from reality. But what if it were possible for us to not just survive, but thrive, in the 21st century? What if the solutions to our eco ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontro ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The truth behind the assassination of JFK - reissued and updated for the sixtieth anniversary Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US of ...Show more
Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World by Peter Navarro (UNIV OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical detectiv ...Show more