What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam by Professor Jenny Hocking
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the lett ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more
Disloyal - A Memoir - The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney And Personal Advisor--The Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval OfficeOnce Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staun ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
From Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson Haunting yet strangely consoling, in a world defined by its divides, Caste connects. - Johny Pitts In this powerful and extraordinarily timely social history, Wilkerson investigates the origins, evolution, and inner workings of America's "shape-shifting, unsp ...Show more
What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19 by Emma Dawson; Janet McCalman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainab ...Show more
War in the Age of Trump - The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran by Patrick Cockburn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Is the fall of ISIS the end of the perpetual war in the Middle East? In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in ...Show more
Hiding in Plain Sight : The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
$62.00 AUD
Category: Political
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.This program is read by the author. The story of Donald Trump's rise to power is the story of ...Show more
How to Win an Election by Chris Wallace
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking – including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but many Australian elections are very clo ...Show more
The Alternative by Owen Jones
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
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Abe - Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds
$71.99 AUD
Category: Political
From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln , many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other ic ...Show more