The New Class War by Michael Lind
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
A maverick thinker who's drawn the applause of both the populist left and right offers a sophisticated indictment of globalization and the liberal elite.
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Britain as we know it is a direct product of our imperial past. And yet, empire is barely taught at school and continues to be a subject of both shame and glorification. Covering everything from our national habits to how we live - from the foundation of the NHS, to the nature of our racism, to our econ ...Show more
American Kompromat - How the KGB cultivated Donald trump and related tales of sex, greed, power and treachery by Craig, Unger
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information" This is a story of dirty secrets, and the most powerful people in the world. Craig Unger's new book, American Kompromat, tells of the spies and salacious events underpinning men's reputations and riches. It tells how a relatively insignificant targeti ...Show more
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible. In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the risi ...Show more
Insider: The Scoops, the Scandals and the Serious Business Within the Canberra Bubble by Christopher Pyne
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Christopher Pyne has been many things and called many things throughout his long career in politics. Member for Sturt. Minister for Defence. Manager of Opposition Business. Leader of the House. 'The Fixer'. Any Canberra story he doesn't know isn't worth telling.Now, after 26 years, the ultimate insider ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more
Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought by Jerome (INT) Hannah; Kohn Arendt
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Classics
Arendt describes the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill once more the vital essence of these concepts. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publ ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Oil. Corrupt? Yes. Unimaginably lucrative? Of course. But, the enemy of democracy? Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow. A blackly comic journey from Washington to Siberia ...Show more
War for Eternity - The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
Steve Bannon in the United States. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. Gábor Vona in Hungary. All rising to power in the past decade. All affiliated with an obscure philosophical movement called Traditionalism. Since the early 20th century, Traditionalism has defined itself against m ...Show more
We See It All: Liberty and Justice in the Age of Perpetual Surveillance by Jon Fasman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
An investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology, asking the question- what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety? The police now have unparalleled power at their fingertips- s ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
$13.00 AUD
Category: Political
What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th ...Show more
The World Is Not Big Enough: A Personal Journey to Understand One Refugee's Life by Vanessa Russell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The World Is Not Big Enough is the story of one woman's journey to understand the human cost of a broken system. At once an investigation into the murder of a refugee and an exploration of Australians' collective guilt, The World Is Not Big Enough explores the ways we are all hurt by Australia's migrat ...Show more