Australia and Indonesia: Can We Be Friends?: Australian Foreign Affairs - Issue 3 by Jonathan Pearlman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Yellow Journal
Australia and Indonesia examines the turbulent relationship between these two neighbours and the missteps and missed opportunities on both sides that have prevented the forging of a genuine friendship. It examines Indonesia's rise, its sharp religious and political divisions, and the opportunities and c ...Show more
The Knowledge Solution: Politics by Michelle Grattan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Can a return to direct democracy reconnect a jaded electorate with an out-of-touch establishment? Would reforming Canberra's toxic culture lead to worthwhile debate and better decision-making? Should today's leaders look back on successful governments to learn how to lead parliament to a full term?In Th ...Show more
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political
"We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future... This splendid book is an invaluable contribution to the debate about what ails democracy, and what can be done about it." ―Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice "Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should ...Show more
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
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The Inner Level : How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everybody's Wellbeing by Kate Pickett; Richard Wilkinson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now published in more than twenty languages, has been one of the most influential non-fiction books published in the last decade, showing conclusively how less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across a whole range of social measures - ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Quarterly Essay
How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial? In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, ...Show more
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2017 'Lively, compulsively readable, fluently written and unshowily erudite' Guardian 'A gripping portrait of a brilliant political thinker, who understood the dangers of authoritarianism and looked for ...Show more
One Last Spin: The Power and Peril of the Pokies by Drew Rooke
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
A poignant and compassionate work of literary journalism that tackles Australia's most controversial pastime. Almost 200,000 poker machines sing and flash in pubs, clubs, and casinos in every corner of the country. They're highly complex devices, their components designed by mathematicians, musicians, ...Show more
Hyper-Capitalism: The Modern Economy, its Values, and How to Change Them by Larry;Kasser Gonick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalismIn Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising, market-worshipping hyper-capitalism is threatening human well-being, social justice, and the planet.Drawing fro ...Show more
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff; David Corn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. I ...Show more
It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety--completed revised and updated. New York Times ...Show more
Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World by Jennifer Palmieri
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to t ...Show more