Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
An essential overview of the problems of our world today - and how we should prepare for tomorrow - from the world's leading public intellectual. We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely ...Show more
Europe at the Gates: In the Era of Brexit and Trump by Guy Rundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Politics
The people of France went to the polls in 2017, narrowly avoiding elevating President Le Pen, a year after `Brexit' and Trump had stood the world on its ear. In Brussels, the EU's leaders consign Greece to despair, pure colonial repression. In Scandinavia, nativist parties take the place social democrat ...Show more
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House by Luke Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An explosive expos that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russia's decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trump administration's ties to Moscow. "Harding...presents a powerful case for Russian interference, and ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future by Mark McKenna
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history war ...Show more
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
Ask a North Korean : Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation by Daniel Tudor; NK News Staff (Contribution by); Andrei Lankov (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor--a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur-- wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography." -- The Boston ...Show more
Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'An entertaining work of memoir-cum-political strategy' Publishers Weekly The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated th ...Show more
Four Flashpoints - How Asia Goes to War by Brendan Taylor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast. Young, reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is engaging in territorial spats with the US president over nuclear missiles. Japan's nationalist government is remilitarising, throwing off the constitutional constraints imposed at the end of World W ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning o ...Show more
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-First Century by Parag Khanna
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranke ...Show more
Don't Panic Retirement Guide (Orange) by Nick Bruining
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Guide on how you don't need $1m in order to retire comfortably