Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The Trump administration is remaking the government. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells readers exactly how it is making America worse again.Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who ...Show more
Trump/Russia - A Definitive History by Seth Hettena
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
Is the 45th President of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump's long involvement with Russia in damning detail - including new reporting never before published. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller' ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama.Tingle notes that leaders must command not only their country, but also their party. Where do ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revol ...Show more
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more
Rockonomics How Music Explains Everything (about the Economy) by Alan Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Economist using examples from music industry | Reading Level: very good
Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. As economists recognize, the music ...Show more
Advancing Australia by John Watson; Amanda Dunn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: The Conversation
Politics in Australia is in a dire state. The Coalition government is led by its third prime minister in four years, two of whom were toppled by their own party. Before that, the Labor government ousted two prime ministers. Voters' trust in politicians is at an all-time low, there is policy inertia on k ...Show more
Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller FIRE AND FURY, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With FIRE AND FURY, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in SIEGE, he has written an equally essential and explosive bo ...Show more
Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump by Neal Katyal; Sam Koppelman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
What is impeachment? How does it work? And why is it so urgent to impeach Donald Trump? In this clear and direct book, celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal explains what impeachment is, why it's in the U.S. constitution and why Donald Trump has left Congress an ...Show more
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen shows what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower -- a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly ap ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more