Power Plays: The Real Stories of Australian Politics by Laurie Oakes
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
Laurie Oakes is the most influential political journalist in Australia - if he says something has happened, the rest of the media (especially the Canberra Press Gallery) believe him and report it as news. He is respected by political insiders and his name is known to the wider public. He has worked in C ...Show more
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the World by John Perkins
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political
"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder." John Perkins should know--he was an economic hit man. Hi ...Show more
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington
$22.95 AUD
Category: Political
It's not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation. Th ...Show more
The Fog on the Hill: How NSW Labor Lost Its Way by Frank Sartor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: sartor frank
The crisis in New South Wales Labor is so deep and has such significant ramifications that we need a massive dose of unadulterated, no-holds-barred honesty. The man who can deliver this honesty is Frank Sartor. An independent outsider who became a Labor minister in 2003, Sartor impressed and irritated i ...Show more
News: The Politics of Illusion by W. Lance Bennett
$69.70 AUD
Category: Political
Updated in a new 9th Edition, News: The Politics of Illusion, by W. Lance Bennett discusses and analyzes the dramatic shifts in news consumption and creation that have both ended and begun new eras of journalism in our time. How well does the news, as the core of the national political information syst ...Show more
When the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics and Policy in NSW 1930-32 by Geoff Robinson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
This book uses previously unexamined archival records and oral histories to show how Lang's government made policy, engaged with the bureaucracy and pushed the conventions of parliamentary democracy to the limit.
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering - their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the n ...Show more
Our Corrupt Legal System: Why Everyone is a Victim [except Rich Criminals] by Evan Whitton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Looks at the adversary system used in Britain and its former colonies, including Australia, the US, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa. Details the origins and methods of the more widespread investigative (inquisitorial) system used in other countries including Japan and South Korea. ...Show more
The Quest : Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
"The Quest" continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin began twenty years ago with his No.1 International Bestseller "The Prize", revealing the on-going quest to meet the world's energy needs - and the power and riches that come with it. A master story teller as well as our most expert analyst, Yergin p ...Show more
From Postbox to Powerhouse: A Centenary History of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Patrick Weller
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
Now a century old, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is at the heart of government in Australia. From Postbox to Powerhouse tracks its history, from its very humble beginnings as a department that did little more than circulate papers between other government departments. Since the start of W ...Show more
Deadly Waters: Inside the Hidden World of Somali Pirates by Jay Bahadur
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political
For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. The world sees nothing but opp ...Show more