The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The New Spymasters by Stephen Grey - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Al-Qaeda. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, many believe that the spy is dead. What use are double agents and dead letter boxes compared to the all-seeing digital eye? They couldn't be more wrong. The spying game ...Show more
30-Second Politics by Steven L. Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: 30-Second | Reading Level: very good
30-second Politics will help dispel this fog of mistrust and paranoia. It challenges political theorists of all colours to come up with no-frill, no-spin, tell-it-like-it-is explanations of the 50 most important political -isms, -archies, and -ocracies that have pertained since the time of Periclean Ath ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences by Satyajit DAS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the global economy and their own prospects, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solutions are. For ordinary individuals, the goal of a steady job, a ho ...Show more
Takeover: Foreign Investment and the Australian Psyche by David Uren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history? As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns in the buyi ...Show more
Twelve Who Don't Agree by Valery Panyushkin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles 12 Russians from across the country's social spectrum who have one thing in common: participation in the historic March of the Dissidents in 2007. In flagrant violation of increasingly stringent laws, they shared a belief that the government of Vladmir Putin was bet ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the free World must be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
In this bold and important book, Garry Kasparov argues that Vladimir Putin's dangerous global ambitions have been ignored for too long - and he won't be stopped unless the West stands up to him.
Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment by Clare O'Neil & Tim Watts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we could tackle key issues - a lagging education system, the destruction of our coastlines, Asia's economic ascendancy - in the decad ...Show more
Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott by Andrew P Street
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Poor people don't drive cars. People have the right to be bigots. I'm a fixer. Team Australia. Shirtfonting. Choppergate. Stop the boats. Coal is good for humanity. No cuts to health. Sir Prince Philip. The flags. It's all the fault of the febrile media. And that whole onion thing.In August 2013, Austra ...Show more
Our Man Elsewhere In Search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Ala ...Show more
The Battle for Home: Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa al-Sabouni
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tole ...Show more
Bolt - Worth Fighting for : Insights and Reflections 2 by Andrew Bolt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Andrew Bolt is Australia's most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the rise of the slacktivist. But he also reveals ...Show more