The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the ...Show more
Rogue Nation by Royce Kurmelovs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism. The ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented accla ...Show more
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. Starting with the Uluru Statement from the Heart, these eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition m ...Show more
Remarkable Times: Australian Politics 2010-13: What Really Happened by Laurie Oakes
$16.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A collection of the best of Laurie Oakes' weekly articles on national politics since the fall of Kevin Rudd, together with exclusive new pieces on the 2013 election campaign, the result, and the make-up and prospects of the new government. From the very first days of the Gillard government to the carbon ...Show more
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Richard Nixon opens with Navy lieutenant 'Nick' Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon's finer attributes quickly gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. Four ye ...Show more
Power Failure: The inside story of climate politics under Rudd and Gillard by Philip Chubb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The inside story of a wicked problem ... What should Australia do about climate change? A succession of leaders has tried to answer this question - and come unstuck. Politicians and public servants call it a "wicked" problem - one highly resistant to solution - and many approaches have been developed a ...Show more
Philosophy (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from? ...Show more
The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
This is an innovative and accessible guide to government, law, and power. Learning about the vast concept of politics can be daunting, but "The Politics Book" makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas, simply explained. Step-by-step summaries, graphics, and quotations help even the compl ...Show more
Politics by David Runciman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Ideas in Profile
In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and poor to the impact of social media, via Machiavelli, Hobb ...Show more
The Political Bubble: Why Australians Don't Trust Politics by Mark Latham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australians once trusted the democratic process. While we got on with our lives, we assumed our politicians had our best interests at heart. Not anymore. That trust has collapsed. Mark Latham joined the Labor Party in the late 1970s hoping to improve people's lives through parliamentary service. Twenty- ...Show more