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
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
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
On China by Henry Kissinger
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience, examining China's history from the classical e ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising ...Show more
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
$57.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From President Obama's chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, a spellbinding account of ten days of the presidency, in June 2015, when a racist massacre and two impending Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a President's words could bring the nation together or tear it a ...Show more
The Superpower Transformation: Making Australia's Zero-Carbon Future by Ross Garnaut
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia - rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape - could become an economic superpower of the post-carbon world. Now, in The Superpower Transformation, he turns that idea into a practic ...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
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
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry ‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton ‘A jaw-dr ...Show more