Housing - The Great Australian Right by Kevin Bell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Housing: the Great Australian Right argues that governments have the capacity and the power toresolve this national plight. The first step is for Australia to rethink its approach to housing policy andrecognise access to housing - having a home - as a fundamental human right.The current crisis can be tr ...Show more
Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety by Carody Culver (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can’t always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its connections to class, race and gender, it affords some ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Picador Collection
'Funny and compulsively readable' - Louis Theroux What if a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists - Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen - that believe in it. Along the way, he is chased by m ...Show more
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Struggle for an Independent Voice in Kabul by Saad Mohseni, Jenna Krajeski
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. In the heady days early days of the American, M ...Show more
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia by Stephanie Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war against Russia after Putin's invasion of Ukraine - written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale ...Show more
Bringing down Goliath - How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful by Jolyon Maugham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* 'Inspiring and illuminating' JAMES O'BRIEN Picked as a 2023 highlight by the Guardian --------------- Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful. But we can fight back. Jolyon Maugham KC founded Good Law Project in 2017 with the belief that ...Show more
Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament A political journey through turbulent times Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a polit ...Show more
How Democracies Die - What History Reveals about Our Future by Steve Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
$23.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Z ...Show more
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power? For decades, complexity scien ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The Place We Came from, the Place We Went Back To by Bernard Wasserstein
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe Sands Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic hist ...Show more
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more