How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...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
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
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
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
October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election by Devlin Barrett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon. The event that broke Hillary's blue wall in the Midwest and swung Florida and North Carolina was an October Surprise, and it was wholly a product of the leadership of the FBI. T ...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
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
Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide by Miranda Devine
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The inside story of the laptop that exposed the president's dirtiest secret. When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became th ...Show more
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...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
The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating by Russell Marks
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip - on John Howard- 'The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.' On Peter Costello- 'The thing about poor old Costello is he is ...Show more