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
How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics by Hein de Haas
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
An authoritative and myth-busting analysis that tells us why we're wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate emergency will not lead to mass migration. Border restrictions have actually produced more migration. These statements might sound like they completely contra ...Show more
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Hélène Landemore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."-Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy mean ...Show more
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
For several decades Chinese ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of soft power. The stories of their reach are breathtaking - Chinese-sponsored reporting in national newspapers and academia; the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands; Hollywood self-censor ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 82: Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of social security and concern for the future? Australia faces recession. In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of care and fear, of social security and concern for the future? In this original essay, George Megalogenis explains ...Show more
Danger On Our Doorstep by Jim Molan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An unsettling assessment of how - and when - war with China might break out and the consequences for the world, from bestselling author, ex-major general Jim Molan What are Australia's options in confronting a rising and belligerent China?For the first time in nearly 80 years, war on our doorstop is not ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
The Invisible Doctrine The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came To Control Your Life) Neo-liberalism by George Monbiot; Peter Hutchinson; Peter Hutchison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives- our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit - the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidab ...Show more
12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic ...Show more
Why Read Hannah Arendt Now by J. Richard Bernstein
$21.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in contemporary life that continue to plague us. She developed a concept of politics and public freedom that serves as a critical standard for judging what ...Show more
The Road to Somewhere : The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart
$44.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobil ...Show more
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State by Yascha Mounk
$55.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A novel focus on "personal responsibility" has transformed political thought and public policy in America and Europe. Since the 1970s, responsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to suggest an obligation to be self-sufficient. This narrow conception of responsibi ...Show more