Dirty Secrets : Our ASIO files by Meredith Burgmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby, Peter Cundall, Gary Foley and Anne Su ...Show more
Class Act by Maxine McKew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Through a series of conversations and case studies Maxine McKew documents the transformation that's now underway in classrooms around Australia and examines the strategies that are helping to lift academic performance, particularly in some of Australia's most challenged schools. Class Act invites reflec ...Show more
Stand and Deliver: Fifty Years of the National Press Club of Australia by Steve Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
If Australian politics and public policy is a war of ideas, the National Press Club is the battleground. For the past half-century, the NPC has been the epicentre of political and social debate in Australia. Leaders and opinion-makers have used its stage to launch leadership bids, rattle the cage of ...Show more
Gillard Project by Michael Cooney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It was a comedy of manners, it was a comedy of errors, it was a tragedy, it was a bunch of stuff that happened; it was a calvary and a triumph. This is what I most want to tell you: it was worth it. Michael Cooney was Julia Gillard's speechwriter for most of her time in office. He came to the job a true ...Show more
Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now seen to have serious flaws, and 'Progressive Capitalism' seeks to replace it with a new, Progressive political economy. This is based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries ...Show more
War on Women in Israel by Elana Maryles Sztokman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Across Israel, women are being harassed as a rising Orthodox Jewish faction seeks to suppress them. In this gripping expose, leading women's activist Elana Sztokman investigates the struggles of Israeli women against increasing religious and political intrusion, from segregation on public buses to being ...Show more
Money Men, the Australia's Twelve Most Notable Treasurers by Chris Bowen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The Money Men is the first in-depth look at the most interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings his unique insider perspective to reveal the lessons learned from the successes and failures of twelve treasurers. From the first pioneer, George Tu ...Show more
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"Garry Kasparov has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition in the 2008 Presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra-like prophecies about Putin's intentions fulfilled have left Kasparov with the realization of a darker truth: Putin's Russia, ...Show more
The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey by Antony Lerman
$70.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Antony Lerman traces his five-decade personal and political journey from idealistic socialist Zionist to controversial critic of Zionism and Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. As head of an influential UK Jewish think tank, he operated at the highest levels of international Jewish political and ...Show more
Downfall : How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart by Aaron Patrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It's the biggest and most puzzling story in Australian politics: how did the Australian Labor Party go from a thumping win in 2007 to facing annihilation in the forthcoming election? Other books have pointed to a lack of coherent policies and an over-reliance on polls--all true--but as this book makes c ...Show more
Bad Pharma - How Medicine is Broken and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good sci ...Show more
Chronicles on Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
With Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty wrote a bestselling book that was widely agreed to be 'extraordinarily important' (Martin Wolf, Financial Times). His powerful, evidence-based analysis and solutions - including progressive wealth taxes to reduce inequality - were praised as much ...Show more