A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission by Dan Ziffer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It wasn't just its exhaustive rounds of hearings around the country - Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, and Sydney - on topics from farming finance to financial planning. It wasn't even the long list of scandals exposed to a horrified nation - charging fees to dead people, blatant conflicts of interest, and ...Show more
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"InFaction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood- to be Prime Minister of Australia. Bill Shorten is now a ...Show more
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Hearing a blast, journalist Anjan Sundaram headed uphill towards the sound. Grenade explosions are not entirely unusual in the city of Kigali; dissidents throw them in public areas to try and destabilise the government and, since moving to Rwanda, he had observed an increasing number of them. What was u ...Show more
Peril by Bob Woodward
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's account of the presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 revealed the transition from President Trump to President Biden to be one of the most dangerous periods in American history, with the result of the elec ...Show more
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin's Agents by Gordon Corera
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present - including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper age ...Show more
True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump by Jeffrey TOOBIN
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for re-election. Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his National Security Advisor pleaded gu ...Show more
China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Disruption has blown the old world apart. The rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set t ...Show more
The Case for Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential elections, makes the case for impeaching the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump Impeachment will "proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some pu ...Show more
Black Edge: The Inside Story of the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The story of billionaire trader Steven Cohen, the rise and fall of his hedge fund SAC Capital, and the largest insider trading investigation in history--for readers of The Big Short, Den of Thieves, and Dark MoneySteven A. Cohen changed Wall Street. He and his fellow pioneers of the hedge fund industry ...Show more
Why We're Polarised by Ezra Klein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended? 'Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarised.' - Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post'It is likely to become the political bo ...Show more
Play by the Rules: The Short Story of American Leadership by Michael Pembroke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In Play by the Rules, acclaimed writer and historian Michael Pembroke offers a fresh take on the USA's vast influence and asks whether it is still a force for good. The United States of America has long claimed to be the leader of the 'free world', however for the last seventy-five years, as it has rout ...Show more
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The Everything Store meets Too Big to Fail in this intimate portrayal of the stumbling giant that is Facebook by two New York Times journalists In November 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell in-depth investigation that exposed, with disturbing insider detail, how leadership decisions at Fac ...Show more