The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
An expert on China's global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. From the ocean floor to outer space, China's digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China's surveilla ...Show more
Rise of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy by Lydia Khalil
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
ASIO says right-wing extremism now makes up half its case load, and that it anticipates a terrorist attack on Australian soil within the year. There is a 250% increase in right-wing terrorism globally since 2014. But what exactly is right-wing extremism? Why is it a global problem? How does it threaten ...Show more
Sold Out!: How Severed Supply & Surging Inflation Will End Consumer Choice by James Rickards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages- crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality for many as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the cost of consume ...Show more
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him - the last that he gave - as well as unfiltered access to his ex ...Show more
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
'Essential reading' Ai Weiwei' *** 'Deeply courageous' Philippe SandsA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of on ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer com ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. From greedy to generous, from cold to kind-hearted, from rogue to hero, Bill Gates is an extraordinarily complex public figure. Yet over th ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff d ...Show more