Why We're Polarized - The International Bestseller from the Founder of Vox. com by Ezra Klein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended?
The Fight of Our Lives - My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of ...Show more
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking ti ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution by ARROW, MICHELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women’s advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for wome ...Show more
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more
Daniel Andrews: The revealing biography of Australia's most powerful premier by Sumeyya Ilanbey
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Category: Politics
The revealing biography of Australia's most powerful premier.State premiers have risen to national prominence in a way not seen in a half century, with Victoria's Daniel Andrews the most successful. This fascinating biography uncovers the story behind his surprising rise to leadership, and his handling ...Show more
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in seven Americans live below the poverty line, a line which hasn’t shifted over the last fifty years, despite the efforts of successive governments and extensive relief programs. Why is there ...Show more
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
*A Telegraph Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World Wa ...Show more