The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Solidarity and prosperity fostered by economic integration: this principle has underpinned the European project from the start, and the establishment of a common currency was supposed to be its most audacious and tangible achievement. Since 2008, however, the European Union has ricocheted between stagna ...Show more
China Matters - Getting it Right for Australia by Bates Gill; Linda Jakobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready? Australia's prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class satisfied whi ...Show more
The Book of Paul: the Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating by Russell Marks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'I fancy Malcolm (Turnbull) is like the big red bunger. You're lighting up, there's a bit of a fizz, then nothing. Nothing.' An updated, gift edition of the bestselling The Book of Paul, presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets ...Show more
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesme ...Show more
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealotsis not just a brilliantbook of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker Int ...Show more
Advertising Shits in Your Head by Vyvian Raoul; Josh MacPhee (Introduction by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls adverts what they are--a powerful means of control through manipulation--and highlights how people across the world are fighting back. It diagnoses the problem and offers practical tips for a DIY remedy. Faced with an ad-saturated world, activists are resisting, equi ...Show more
Has the Luck Run Out? The End of Old Australia by David Fagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Why have we lost trust in Australia? What's going wrong? What's going right? And what we can do to regain confidence in Australia's future? Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic? Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia? Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many? Has the ...Show more
#MeToo: Stories From the Australian Movement by Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott and Natalie Kon-yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
#MeToo is not just about famous people ... If #MeToo is going to ultimately make the big difference we all want to see, it's got to mean something for [any] woman who gets harassed. - Julia Gillard This is the first collection that aims to make sense of the #MeToo movement in Australia. A collection th ...Show more
Race Matters - With a New Introduction by Cornel West
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Mattersbecame a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race cont ...Show more
Exposure - One Lawyer's 20 Year Battle Against Dupont by Robert Bilott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist." --The New York Times Book Review The story that inspired the major motion picture Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo as Robert Bilott. In 1998, Rob Bilott began a legal battle against DuPont that would consume the next twenty years of hi ...Show more
Antisocial - How Online Extremists Broke America by Andrew Marantz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became 'fake news', how fringe ideas spread, and how a candidate many dismissed as a joke was propelled to the presidency by the dark side of the internet. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has ...Show more