The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the transformative ideas that outlived him At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law's motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that ...Show more
The Manner of their Going: Prime Ministerial exits in Australia by Norman Abjorensen
$49.95 AUD
Category: Politics
For those who want to understand Australian politics today - Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Has the job of prime minister become more difficult? It has certainly become more insecure, with six changes in the eleven years between 2007 and 2018. Here is the story of how all twenty ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Living Democracy: An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World As We Know It by Tim Hollo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
There's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of ecological crises, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, and a post-truth in politics that's divorced from reality. But what if it were possible for us to not just survive, but thrive, in the 21st century? What if the solutions to our eco ...Show more
What Just Happened?! Dispatches from Turbulent Times by Marina Hyde
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
No other writer is more suited to chronicle the absurd and chaotic times we live in. This book - based on Hyde's spectacularly funny Guardian columns - tells the story of the hellscape of the Cameron, May and Johnson eras, Trumpian wtf-ery to celebrity twattery, the Royal soap-opera and the series final ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
Polling Unpacked - The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls by Mark Pack
$37.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From a political-polling expert, an eye-opening--and hilarious--look at the origins of polls and how they have been used and abused ever since. Opinion polls dominate media coverage of politics, especially elections. But how do the polls work? How do we tell the good from the bad? And in light of rece ...Show more
Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Toxic Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The inside story of a band of hackers who were hired to fix Facebook - and came to question whether it was beyond saving.Facebook knew it had a problem. The company had been humiliated by headlines, painted as complicit in the election of Trump and in an assault on the global social fabric. Their stated ...Show more
JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The truth behind the assassination of JFK - reissued and updated for the sixtieth anniversary Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US of ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World by Peter Navarro (UNIV OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical detectiv ...Show more