From Despair to Hope by James Arvanitakis
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Penguin Specials
A few days before the terrorist attacks in Paris, a car bomb exploded in Beirut killing dozens. Though this may happen on the other side of the world, deep divisions emerge that are exploited for political expediency. Strangers are no longer people reading quietly on the bus, but potential threats. How ...Show more
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy by Noam Chomsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course ...Show more
Unf*ck Your Finances by Melissa Browne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Start making smart decisions. Free yourself from the financial fog.Take control of your money.Unf*cking your finances will change your life. With a step-by-step approach, including a 30-day financial detox, money mindfulness plan and goal-setting exercises, this book provides everything you need to deve ...Show more
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 47: Political Animal: David Marr on Tony Abbott by David Marr
$19.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book - and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows tha ...Show more
Mullahs Without Mercy Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons (1st Edition) by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Geoffrey Robertson QC explains how to avoid war in the Middle East and a catastrophic nuclear disaster. - What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or America bombing Iran? - Will our children ever live in a world without nuclear weapons? - Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted with a weapo ...Show more
Bewitched and Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years by Samantha (ed) Trenoweth
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Category: Political / Economic
Bewitched and Bedevilled looks at the reasons Julia Gillard, our first female Prime Minister, was so vehemently attacked, the varied reactions to being a female prime minister, her unfortunate position at the receiving end of a barrage of sexism and misogyny and how much this played a part in her politi ...Show more
Undesirables: Inside Nauru by Mark Isaacs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
When it comes to asylum-seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the government wants us to know. In the wake of The Nauru Files, see first-hand is happening inside the Nauru detention centre through Mark Isaacs' eyewitness account. Mark Isaacs worked for the Salvation Army inside the Nauru Detention Centre ...Show more
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, Patricia Drum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal RudduGillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to reveal the untold stories and candid moments that ...Show more
The Chaser's America: the Chaser, Issue 6 by The Chaser
$12.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
With Donald Trump taking the Whitehouse in late January, The Chaser takes a new look at the United States, its institutions and its former allies and new foes. Inspired by last year's The Chaser's Australia, The Chaser's Americais a full colour primer about the world's best-marketed country, it also fea ...Show more
A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World by Bobo Lo
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Lowy Institute Paper
With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James B. Comey
$55.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey pr ...Show more