Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An essential overview of the problems of our world today - and how we should prepare for tomorrow - from the world's leading public intellectual. We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely ...Show more
Shadow State - Murder, Mayhem and How Russia's Remaking of the West by Luke Harding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist comes Shadow State, a timely and shocking analysis which connects Putin, Trump, and Brexit with the dark web. Based on years of investigations, Luke Harding reveals how Russian spies helped to sway the 2016 US presidential electi ...Show more
Barack Obama Speeches by Barack Obama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Inspirational speeches from America's first African American president. You'll be inspired to be the change you wish to see in the world as you read through this collection of speeches delivered by Barack Obama. These messages of hope for a more perfect union in America will appeal to readers across ...Show more
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture or pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool, of limited ...Show more
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Ray: "Traitor or Patriot? Now we have Edward Snowden’s own story — high-school dropout; hacker; joined the Army after 9/11; top secret security clearance at the age of 22. Will make you wonder about the wisdom of Australia sharing its intelligence with the U.S. And make you worry about how much the gov ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn by Chris Hughes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Chris Hughes helped launch Facebook with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. He earned nearly half a billion dollars for three years of work and believes his overnight success is indicative of what's wrong with today 's economy. Tracing the rise of Facebook and similar companies, he ...Show more
On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapse ...Show more
Philosophy and Revolution - From Kant to Marx by Stathis Kouvelakis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path entered into crisis, generating two antagonistic ...Show more
To Obama, With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair by Jeanne Marie Laskas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from constituents. Every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. This is the story of the profound ways in which they shaped his presidency.Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters wri ...Show more