With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration--And Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling; Kirsten McClure (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown--of population growth, economies, and technological innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefi ...Show more
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
Culture Shock Gallup's solution to the biggest leadership issue of our time. by Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
$44.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an awakening that shocked the world -- a structural change in how and where people work and live. One thing we now know for certain: Nothing is going back to normal.How organizations adapt to this culture shock will determine whether they thrive or even survive and whether U ...Show more
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Classics Ser.
Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie ...Show more
Bobby KennedyThe Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTHistory remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune ...Show more
Just Cool It : The Climate Crisis and what we can do, a Post-Paris Agreement by David Suzuki; Ian Hanington
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A resounding post-Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions - and above all, hope. Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there ho ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Based on a series of extensive interviews - and now revised and updated to reflect current events - Media Tarts provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system and explores the part played by the press in their downfall. ' ...Show more