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With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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
Joe Biden American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency This definitive history of Joe Biden tells the poignant story of the man – both his life in politics and the series of personal tragedies that have marked him – drawing on extensive co ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disa ...Show more
Lead the Way: How to Change the World, from the Frontline of the Schoolstrikes by Jean Hinchcliffe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Lead the Way is your ultimate guide to activism and making systematic change, your way. Jean Hinchliffe is one of the key organisers of School Strikes 4 Climate, and in this book she shares her tools, stories and learnings from the movement with you. From identifying your cause to finding allies, planni ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Dead in the Water: A Very Angry Book about Our Greatest Environmental Catastrophe... the Death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: The successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Play by the Rules: The Short Story of American Leadership by Michael Pembroke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In Play by the Rules, acclaimed writer and historian Michael Pembroke offers a fresh take on the USA's vast influence and asks whether it is still a force for good. The United States of America has long claimed to be the leader of the 'free world', however for the last seventy-five years, as it has rout ...Show more
The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy by Melissa Davey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Guardian Australia's Melbourne bureau chief Melissa Davey covered Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuses, and attended each of his trials for his alleged historic sexual offences against children--his committal hearing, mistrial, retrial, and appeal. What she sa ...Show more
Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics by Bill Bowtell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more