Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson by Ferdinand Mount
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.There is a c ...Show more
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
The Indi Way: how a rural community sparked a social and political movement by Voices for Indi
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A behind-the-scenes account of how a rural community found its own voice, elected its own independent representatives, and inspired a national movement that is transforming Australian politics. Twelve people met for the first time at their local library in the rural and regional electorate of Indi in n ...Show more
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
Roe - The History of a National Obsession by Mary Ziegler
$41.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history
American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the USA. And so it would be - just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The ...Show more
Circle of Stars - A History of the EU and the People Who Made It by Dermot Hodson
$51.95 AUD
Category: Politics
A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it--from Maastricht to today The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives of over 500 million Europeans, ...Show more
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A riveting insider account of how activists, politicians, educators and citizens are working to change minds, bridge divisions and save democracy from the bestselling author of Winners Take All It once seemed possible to build a political movement out of people with different ideas, different identities ...Show more
Climate Politics in Oceania: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World by Susan Harris Rimmer; Caitlin Byrne; Wesley Morgan
$40.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Australia's ambitions for global climate policy leadership have been seriously undermined in recent years, its reputation reduced by political inertia, policy blind spots and diplomatic isolation. At the same time, Pacific Island nations have gained global traction, their leaders recognising the influen ...Show more
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No is Not Enough. The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre ...Show more
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia's brightest and most astute political commentator. Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more