Zelensky The Frontline President by Andrew L. Urban, Chris Mcleod
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The message from the free world to Russian President Putin has always been clear: Leave Ukraine alone... get out! What Russia thought would be a three-day hit-and-run mission to oust the Ukraine government of Volodymyr Zelensky was an abject failure. The message from the free world to Russian President ...Show more
The Extreme Centre - A Warning by Tariq Ali
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this fully updated edition of his coruscating polemic, Tariq Ali shows how, since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wide-ranging case for the prosecution, Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment acro ...Show more
Solomon's Noose: True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart by Steve Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggl ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly i ...Show more
The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia by Andrew Scott, Rod Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How the Nordic approach can shape Australia's future for betterClimate and energy. Work/life balance. Mining taxes. Progress on policy issues like these is essential, and yet they have become subject to the most rancorous partisanship, the precipitation of culture wars, and have brought down governments ...Show more
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House by Luke Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
#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
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES Editors' ChoiceFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theor ...Show more
The Change Makers: 25 Leaders in Their Own Words by Shaun Carney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Good leadership. Why is it so elusive? Are there successful traits that can be transferred from one field to another, or is it a constant application of imagination to the changing challenges? How do you take others with you? Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and ass ...Show more
Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Biography Ser.
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to ...Show more
End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behaviour and sometimes ...Show more
The PM Years by Kevin Rudd
$44.99 AUD
Category: Politics
It was the coup that killed Australian politics. Less than three years after taking government in a landslide election victory, Kevin Rudd was betrayed by his deputy and the factional powerbrokers of the Australian Labor Party, the 'Faceless Men', despite enjoying historically high personal and party ap ...Show more
Unfinished Business - Life As a Senator by Derryn Hinch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Derryn Hinch made headlines in 2016 when he went from media personality to Victorian Senator at the head of a new political party and made a lasting impact on the political landscape. This is an unflinchingly honest account of his last two years as a senator, before he lost his seat in the 2019 election ...Show more