A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more
How Democracies Die - What History Reveals about Our Future by Steve Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Z ...Show more
Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia by Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
The achievement of marriage equality in Australia in 2017 was hailed by many as the crowning event of a fifty-year story of hard work by activists, which began with campaigns to decriminalise sex between men in the early 1970s. In that same five decades, feminist activism, including campaigns for aborti ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation by Danny Kruger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
'It is uplifting to see a frontline politician setting out a vision of such scope and ideological coherence ... persuasively argued and elegant to read' Sunday Times Contemporary conservatism can easily be seen as a hollowed-out creed. Combining heartless free-market individualism with an unthinking soc ...Show more
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A masterclass on how politics works and how to achieve real change.In recent years, the world of politics has taken a series of disastrous wrong turns. We have witnessed leaders who can't - or shouldn't be allowed to - lead, policies that are either self-serving or don't work, and world views that are c ...Show more
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by BRANDS HAL
$80.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also c ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more