Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crises (or Don't) (H/B) by Jared Diamond
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steeland Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countrie ...Show more
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and f ...Show more
Trump in Asia : Australian Foreign Affairs issue 2 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
'We've hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.' MICHAEL WESLEY The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States' sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides insights into Do ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Economics is like a tyre lever- it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.'What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevit ...Show more
Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by MATTHEW QVORTUP
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An excellent book.' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times 'A biography that reads like an Icelandic saga.' - The Times The definitive UPDATED biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world fully updated to within a month of publication. Matthew Qvortrup's definitive and insightful biogr ...Show more
Our Sphere of Influence: Rivalry in the Pacific - Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 6 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's struggle to retain influence among its Pacific island neighbours as foreign powers play a greater role and as small nations brace for the impacts of climate change. Australia's Sphere of Influence explores the security challenges facin ...Show more
The Force of Nonviolence - The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Bernstein. Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected t ...Show more
Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young by Helen Razer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This updated and expanded edition of Richard Denniss' bestselling Quarterly Essay gives a template for understanding the next federal election; discusses how and why the right of politics has continued to splinter; focuses on why energy and climate policy is such a problem for conservative politics; and ...Show more
China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Disruption has blown the old world apart. The rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set t ...Show more