Worldmaking - The Art and Science of American Diplomacy by David Milne
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the presentWorldmaking is a compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retelling the story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially di ...Show more
Class in Australia by Threadgold Steven
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a ‘lucky country’ with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. ...Show more
Leo and Mina Fink: For the Greater Good by Margaret Taft
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political
During the darkest days of the Holocaust, Europe’s Jews faced annihilation. In faraway Melbourne, immigrants Leo and Mina Fink rallied to rescue the survivors. It was a massive task. Undaunted, they battled bureaucrats, public opinion and at times the Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell. Marshalling ...Show more
China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to its gro ...Show more
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGurl
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
As the story goes- Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave us Amazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dyna ...Show more
Team of Five - The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump by Kate Andersen Brower
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
USA Today BestsellerFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women--also a New York Times bestseller--comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have forme ...Show more
BROKEN HEARTLANDS: A JOURNEY THROUGH LABOUR'S LOST ENGLAND by Payne
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour's red wall from Sebastian Payne - an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. 'Impressive and entertaining' - Sunday Times 'Immensely readable' - O ...Show more
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong
$32.00 AUD
Category: Political
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Modi's India - Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot; Cynthia Schoch (Translator)
$63.00 AUD
Category: Political
A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first ...Show more
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy and the Displacement of American Power by Rush Doshi
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Bridging the Gap Ser.
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the UnitedStates. What ...Show more
The Age of Unpeace - How Globalisation Sows the Seeds of Conflict by Mark Leonard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope that it would make war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of con ...Show more