The Truth About China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers by Bill Birtles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Em ...Show more
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War by Phillip Deery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency- ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at counter ...Show more
The Persuaders - Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
$37.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion- changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. People increasingly write each other off instead of seeking to win each other over. ...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
The Carbon Club: How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy by Marian Wilkinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the qu ...Show more
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy. 'Essential reading' - Tony Blair Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is oftenbased on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrowsdee ...Show more
The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism From the Time of Christ to Kanye West (Second Edition, Revised and Supplemented) by Alex Ryvchin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author's most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time. The 7 Deadly Myths traces antisemitism from its earliest origins to the present day and uncovers the dangerous conspiracy theories that have cor ...Show more
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more
Putin by Philip Short
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' ObserverVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Under Putin ...Show more
Impeachment - A Citizen's Guide by Cass R. Sunstein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Sunstein has written the story of impeachment every citizen needs to know. This is a remarkable, essential book." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public's ...Show more
Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline by Richard Cooke
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Polarised, unequal, enraged and spiritually bereft, the American experiment, under Donald Trump, looks to be on the brink of failure. In this award-winning series of dispatches and essays, Richard Cooke explores US society before, during and after one of the most high-stakes midterm elections in history ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$47.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetenc ...Show more