Blasphemy by Asia Bibi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, ...Show more
Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business by James Button
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Category: Political
James Button spent a year writing speeches for Kevin Rudd. Before that, he reported on politics as a highly regarded journalist for Fairfax. But James also has politics in his blood: his father was the larger-than-life, street-fighting Senator John Button, who was a minister in the Hawke government. Gro ...Show more
Kennedys,the by Collier P/horowit D
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Category: Political
The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family ...Show more
The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley
$57.95 AUD
Category: Political
Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving monarch. This book tells the unexpected story of his life and 60-year rule: how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people as a living Bud ...Show more
George F. Kennan - An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two ...Show more
Barack Obama: The Making of a Man by David Maraniss
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Category: Political
Millions have read Barack Obama's "Dreams from my Father" and think they know his story. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss has produced a startling biography which reveals the true narrative of Obama's early years. In "Barack Obama", David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative wh ...Show more
Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man by Richard Stengel
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Category: Political
Written by the co-author of international bestseller "Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man" presents fifteen powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela, whose fight against apartheid in South Africa has become an enduring exampl ...Show more
Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and a Love Reclaimed by Leslie Maitland
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Category: Political
Separated by war and her family's disapproval, the young lovers lose each other for fifty years. It is a testimony to both Maitland's investigative skills and her devotion to her mother that she successfully traced the lost Roland and was able to reunite him with Janine. Unlike so many stories of love d ...Show more
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility: Volume 3 by Alastair Campbell
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Category: Political
Provides an account of life at the centre of the Blair government. This title also provides accounts of a variety of domestic crises: foot-and-mouth disease and protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt.
Once Upon a Secret by Mimi Alford
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Category: Political
In 1963, Mimi Beardsley was a naive young American girl, very much a product of her class and time - she had attended the same exclusive girls' school as Jackie Bouvier, now installed in the White House as the president's wife, which is also where Mimi found herself, as an 18-years-old intern. The JFK W ...Show more
No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
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Category: Political
For eight years, Condoleezza Rice participated in the highest political councils and had a crucial role in shaping policy that affected not just America but the world. Here, she writes candidly of the many fascinating people with whom she interacted and the momentous events that tested her resolve. What ...Show more
Bringing the House Down by Barry Cohen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political
The only thing that kept me sane, well reasonably sane, during 20 years "hard labor" was the hilarious things that my erstwhile colleagues became involved in.