The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services by Mark Considine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve.In t ...Show more
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull of Putin and Xi it seems that democracy is in a state of decay. And as governments around the world struggle to combat the coronavirus - often adopting draconian measures as a response - there is a sense, a panic, that democracy's ...Show more
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott R Nelson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain--along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the strug ...Show more
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connecte ...Show more
Dancing on Bones History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea by Katie Stallard
$39.00 AUD
Category: Political
History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones as she examines how the leade ...Show more
Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World by Chandran Nair
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
White privilege damages and distorts societies around the world, not just in the United States. This book exposes its pervasive global reach and creates a new space for discourse on worldwide racial equality. As Chandran Nair shows in this uncompromising new book, a belief in the innate superiority of ...Show more
The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity by Janine di Giovanni
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland.Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle
$45.95 AUD
Category: Political
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the left.The epochal shift toward neoliberalism-a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the ...Show more
Secret City - The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
"Not since Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history."--George StephanopoulosWashington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick's Secret ...Show more
A Sense of Balance by John Howard
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect that sense of balan ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia by Daniel Mulino
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Economist and Labor MP Daniel Mulino explains how the Australian welfare state was created - and what we need to do to protect and extend it The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefi ...Show more