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Kamala's Way by Dan Morain
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
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Play by the Rules: The Short Story of American Leadership by Michael Pembroke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
In Play by the Rules, acclaimed writer and historian Michael Pembroke offers a fresh take on the USA's vast influence and asks whether it is still a force for good. The United States of America has long claimed to be the leader of the 'free world', however for the last seventy-five years, as it has rout ...Show more
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
Bland Fanatics - Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empires by Pankaj Mishra
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its f ...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
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
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$28.00 AUD
Category: Political
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
Twilight of Democracy by ANNE APPLEBAUM
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply engaged in both Europe and America: how did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written wi ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Reconnected: A Community Builder's Handbook by Andrew Leigh
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
Friends are good for your health. The strength of your social relationships is a remarkably good predictor of how long you will live. Strong social connections also make communities more resilient, efficient and satisfying. But today Australians have fewer close friends and local connections than in the ...Show more
Post Corona - From Crisis to Opportunity by Scott Galloway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The New York Times bestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world. The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps betw ...Show more