ConfusionThe Making of the Australian Two-Party System by Paul Strangio; Nicholas Dyrenfurth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Academic Monograph Ser.
In Confusion, some of Australia's foremost political historians including Judith Brett and Stuart Macintyre revisit the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives.In May 1909, Alfred Deakin, the radical liberal doyen, struck an agreement for a controversial 'fusion' with the ...Show more
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s w ...Show more
Every Man in This Village is a Liar: an education in war by Megan Stack
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre on 9/11, journalist Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she travelled to war-r ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Dealing with the mafia, the Clintons and Trump: In A Higher Loyalty former FBI director James Comey details his experiences with some of the most important cases in USA history. In his Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of t ...Show more
How Political Correctness is Destroying Education by KEVIN. DONNELLY
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
There¿s no doubt that political correctness has undermined and weakened Australia¿s education system and made it almost impossible for teachers and schools to fulfil their roles as key guardians of our children¿s education and the nation¿s future. Dr Kevin Donnelly follows his highly acclaimed and bests ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
From the Corner of the Oval Office by Rebecca Dorey-Stein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. The ultimate DC outsider, she joined the elite team who accompanied the president wherever he went, recorder and mic in hand. On ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2018 by Russ Radcliffe (ed)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Pat Campbell, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Rowe, Andrew Weldon, Cathy Wilcox, Paul Zanetti, and many more . . .
Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller FIRE AND FURY, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With FIRE AND FURY, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in SIEGE, he has written an equally essential and explosive bo ...Show more
Isis: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Here, two of America's leading experts on violent extremism have joined together to explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State.
A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World by Bobo Lo
$9.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Lowy Institute Paper
With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y ...Show more
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher Wil ...Show more