Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons (PB) by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Julia Gillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. As a result of their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...Show more
The Global Rise of China by Alvin Y. So
$35.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: China Today
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses. Exactly how did this Chinese developmental miracle happen? Focusing on ...Show more
Battleground - Why the Liberal Party shirtfronted Tony Abbott by Wayne ERRINGTON and Peter VAN ONSELEN
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Tony Abbott came to the prime ministership lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since Whitlam. Why then did he fail to succeed in the job to which he had aspired for decades? Battleground chronicles the paradox of the Abbott prime ministership: steadfast loyalty when pragmatism was requ ...Show more
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
What if you could look into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with messages that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world upside down. Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to start his own far-right insurgency, Cambridge Analyt ...Show more
Investing with She's on the Money: Build Your Future Wealth (from the creator of the #1 finance podcast) by Victoria Devine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The new book from the award-winning, number one bestselling author of She's on the Money Everything you need to know to get started investing and building your future wealth with financial advisor Victoria Devine, creator of the She's on the Money podcast. Secure your copy now!
The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLSDo you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our timesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst o ...Show more
The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck and Could Now Throw It All Away by Peter Hartcher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Australia is an international success story, but can it stay on top? The Sweet Spot takes a provocative look at how Australia continues to ride the boom, and what might cause it to fall.
Politics with Purpose: Occasional Observations on Public and Private Life by Lindsay Tanner
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'We cannot blame particular individuals for modern Labor's malaise, because it is part of a systemic global phenomenon. We are all under the sway of politics without purpose. And politics without purpose is pointless.' Nothing could better sum up Lindsay Tanner's forthright attitude to politics and the ...Show more
Talk of the Devil:Encounters with Seven Dictators by Riccardo Orizio
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
What happened to the great dictators of contemporary history, responsible for some of its most gruesome chapters? And, now that they are disgraced, or in prison, or exiled, or simply forgotten, do they still seem as terrifying as when they held power? Thanks to his conversion to Islam, the unrepentant I ...Show more
Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman by James C. Humes
$36.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman" reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britain's most famous Prime Minister, and how his critics perceived them throughout his political career Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduk ...Show more
A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it."--Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011 In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's "Daily Telegra ...Show more