The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way by Steve Richards
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
Something strange has been happening. All over the World, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in A ...Show more
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David Garrow
$44.99 AUD
Category: Political
The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary leader and his rise - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross. Barack Obama's ...Show more
Karl Marx : Grandeur and Illusion; a Historical Biography by Gareth Stedman Jones
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Category: Political
As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants debated an unparalleled range of economic, political, religious and intellectual challenges.One of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland and a man whose entir ...Show more
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Political
In Adults In The Room, Yanis Varoufakis exposes the shocking reality of how power is wielded behind the scenes at the EU - and argues that only radical reform can save it from collapse. Yanis Varoufakis became globally famous when was elected finance minister of Greece with a specific mandate to say no ...Show more
No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
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Category: Political
Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands . . . ' Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump ...Show more
Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
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Category: Political
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World by Bobo Lo
$10.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Lowy Institute Paper
With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y ...Show more
The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation by Antoine van Agtmael
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Category: Political
The remarkable story of how rustbelt cities such as Akron and Albany in the United States and Eindhoven in Europe are becoming the unlikely hotspots of global innovation, where sharing brainpower and making things smarter-not cheaper-is creating a new economy that is turning globalization on its head An ...Show more
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
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Category: Political
The result of the 2016 presidential election was widely thought to be a foregone conclusion: a historic victory for an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced and admired candidate against an opponent seen as not just unelectable but unfit for office. As we know, it didn't work out like that. So how ...Show more
Radical Hope: Letters of passion about hopes and fears from Trump's America by Carolina De Robertis
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Category: Political
An antidote to despair about our turbulent times from writers including Junot Diaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Jane Smiley. In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates' BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME and James Baldwin, RADICAL HOPE is a collection of love letters - to ancestors, to ...Show more
Depends What You Mean By Extremist by John Safran
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Category: Political
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more
Everything Under the Heavens by Howard W. French
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Category: Political
For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That fa ade, reports former New York Times Asia correspondent Howard French, has now been cast off. China is increasingly asserting its place among the global powers, signaling its pla ...Show more