The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The renowned radical economist Guy Standing turns his attention to our time, and how to reclaim it Time has always been political. Throughout history, how we use our time has been defined and controlled by the powerful, and today is no exception. But we can reclaim control, and in this book, the pioneer ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches ...Show more
The Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do ...Show more
Looking Into The Abyss by Barry Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This collection of insightful articles from Barry Jones follows in the footsteps of the acclaimed Knowledge Courage Leadership (2016) and includes reflections on the big political and social issues and concerns locally, nationally and internationally. Understand more about key issues including religious ...Show more
Practice: Journalism, Essays and Criticism by Guy Rundle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Known for his wild wit and irreverent commentary, Guy Rundle is one of Australia's most virtuosic minds. Practice distils his best writing on politics, culture, class and more. In it, Rundle roves the campaign trails of Obama, Palin and Trump; rides the Amtrak around a desolate America; bails up Bob Ka ...Show more
Chasing Hillary - Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling by Amy Chozick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
New York Times Bestseller Now in paperback, the dishy, rollicking, and deeply personal story of what really happened in the 2016 election and since, as seen through the eyes of the New York Times reporter who gave eight years of her life to covering the First Woman President who wasn't. "The Devil Wea ...Show more
Reset: Restoring Australia after the Pandemic Recession by Ross Garnaut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the bestselling author, a ground-breaking sequel to Superpower. In Reset, renowned economist Ross Garnaut shows how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset its economy and build a successful future - and why the old approaches will not work. Garnaut develops the idea of a ren ...Show more
Pravda Ha Ha - True Travels to the End of Europe by Rory MacLean
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carr In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric ...Show more
Levers of Power - How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do about It by Kevin A. Young; Tarun Banerjee; Michael Schwartz
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Understanding the power of the corporations and how to take the struggle directly to them It's no secret that "the 1%" - the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions- exercise enormous control over U.S. government. While this ...Show more
Morrison's Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy by Paul Kelly
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges- an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by maki ...Show more