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
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as ...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
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
Griffith Review 56: Millennials Strike Back by Julianne Schultz and Jerath Head (Editors)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Griffith REVIEW
Millennials have had bad press for a long time. Now they are fighting back, making their mark on a world that is profoundly different from the one their parents knew. The oldest were in primary school when the Soviet Union collapsed and deregulation swept the west. As they entered adulthood they witness ...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
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
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
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
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