Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers by Chris Bowen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
How much do you know about the history of Australia’s oldest political party, the Australian Labor Party? You know the big names: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke and Keating. But what about the names behind the big names? The unsung and overlooked True Believers who have been the backbone of the Labor P ...Show more
Time for Socialism - Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 by Thomas Piketty
$34.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of h ...Show more
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideologic ...Show more
The Zelensky Effect by Olga Onuch, Henry E. Hale
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces stood ready to evacuate Ukraine's neophyte leader, a man whose main qualification just three years earlier seemed to be having played a president on TV. But in what became an international rallying cry, Volodymyr Zelensky reported ...Show more
American Carnage - On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
New York Times' Top Books of 2019 Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern Republican Party--how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unli ...Show more
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by TOM. MUELLER
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy." -- New York Times-bestselling author Wendell Potter "Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what i ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age by Sebastian Smee
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 72
What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age? Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitudeand reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and theagitation of modern life, everything f ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
$37.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Command and Controlinterweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depi ...Show more
A Short History of Stupid: The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream by Helen Razer
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
How did everything get so dumb?..How did we become hostages to idiocy?..What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'?..The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and rage. It ...Show more
In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia by Laura Tingle
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
With the politics of rage and resentment dominating many Western nations, including Australia, Laura Tingle's calm, perceptive analysis is more relevant than ever. What has happened to good government? Can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past to put things right? When leaders surf the wave of ...Show more
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by DAVIS, STEPHEN
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
**Soon to be a major TV drama** The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years. On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 4 ...Show more
The Great Decoupling - China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy by Nigel Inkster
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
'Linking his knowledge of China's past and present to fascinating detail of its achievements and aspirations in advanced technology, Inkster provides a powerful and compelling narrative of the decoupling of China and the United States. You will learn much of importance from this book.' Book jacket.