Best Laid Plans: a Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: the Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar by Sean Turnell
$13.00 AUD
Category: Political
Best laid Plans is a unique first-hand account of the radical economic reforms implemented in Myanmar under the ill-fated civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These reforms, designed both to turn around Myanmar's dire economy and lay the economic foundations for democracy, were brought to a dram ...Show more
Human Rights - The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms After the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards, for privacy, fair trials and free speech, and outlawing ...Show more
Slick: Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil by Royce Kurmelovs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
A riveting expose of the global oil industry's multi-decade conspiracy to muddy the waters around the science of climate change and use the Australian government to undermine worldwide efforts to address environmental devastation. Slick- Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil takes a comprehensive ...Show more
How Tyrants Fall - And How Nations Survive by Marcel Dirsus
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it's their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses ...Show more
Ukraine in the Shadow of Geopolitics by Richard Falk
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political
This book addresses the geopolitical dimensions of the Ukraine War. From its inception the United States and the NATO alliance that it dominates regarded this conflict as primarily a battle for the future of global security in the post-Cold War 21st Century world. In effect, international law regarding ...Show more
Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The spectacular fallout from Australia's duplicitous AUKUS deal Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind, from the boule ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine In a newly updated edition of Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. H ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
God, Guns, and Sedition - Far-Right Terrorism in America by Bruce Hoffman; Jacob Ware
$60.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: A\Council on Foreign Relations Book Ser.
Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These incidents, however, are neither novel nor unprecedented. They are the lat ...Show more
The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America by Daniel Shea, Nicholas F. Jacobs
$62.95 AUD
Category: Political
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victo ...Show more
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO by Peter Apps
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFEThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that ...Show more
The Wild Men - The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government by David Torrance
$40.00 AUD
Category: Political
Thoroughly researched...brings superbly to life figures whom history should not have forgotten - Simon Heffer, Daily TelegraphA highly readable, enjoyable and informative book - Financial TimesThe incredible story of the first Labour government, and the 'wild men' who shook up the British establishment. ...Show more