Girt by China: Power Play in the Pacific: Australian Foreign Affairs 17 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Politics
What challenges does Australia face as the world's great powers battle for a foothold in the Pacific?The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the growing rivalry and increasing tension in the Pacific as it becomes a stage for a great-power contest to gain influence and a strategic positio ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: good
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
Depends What You Mean By Extremist by John Safran
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Category: Politics
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The result of the 2016 presidential election was widely thought to be a foregone conclusion: a historic victory for an extraordinarily well-qualified, experienced and admired candidate against an opponent seen as not just unelectable but unfit for office. As we know, it didn't work out like that. So how ...Show more
Fighting Hislam by Susan Carland
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Category: Politics
Muslim women oppose sexism in their community in many ways- pray-in protests, feisty Tumblrs, demanding to enter mosques through the main entrance, teaching Islamic classes to women and girls, writing their own female-friendly translations of the Qur'an, making films with Muslim protagonists...In Fighti ...Show more
Caroline Chisholm: An Irresistible Force by Sarah Goldman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A fresh, spirited and engaging biography of a fascinating and influential woman who was absolutely instrumental in shaping modern Australia - but whose influence and importance has largely been forgotten. Caroline Chisholm was a take-no-prisoners game-changer of colonial Australia - as well as a charmi ...Show more
Should We Fear Russia? by Dmitri V. Trenin
$21.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Global Futures
Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In this incisive analysis, top Russian foreign and sec ...Show more
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela; Sahm Venter (Editor); Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (Foreword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
Born Liquid by Zygmunt Bauman; Thomas Leoncini
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Category: Politics
Born Liquid?is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today.
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the G ...Show more
Inside the Greens: The True Story of the Party, the Politics and the People by Paddy Manning
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Category: Politics
A revelatory examination of the history and the future of the Australian Greens. After a decade of unprecedented political volatility, Australians appear increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties. Yet the Greens, the third force in Australian politics since the turn of the century, get comp ...Show more
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer
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Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 'Hums - with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion... Close to a non-fiction masterpiece' The New York Times America is in crisis: in a state of unwinding. In the space of a generation the country has become divided between winners and losers, with ...Show more