A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$65.00 AUD
Category: Politics
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Ne ...Show more
A Reluctant Warrior by Kelly Brooke Nicholls
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Kelly Brooke Nicholls wrote A Reluctant Warrior to shine a light on events in Colombia and celebrate the brave everyday people there. It is based on events she witnessed firsthand and interviews with thousands of victims of paramilitaries, guerrillas and drug cartels. She also worked closely with the Sp ...Show more
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
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
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés by Felicity Ruby + Peter Cronau Eds.
$29.95 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations - revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world - as battling sport ...Show more
A Sense of Balance by John Howard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect that sense of balan ...Show more
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see...So begins Jamaica Kincaid's powerful portrait of the damaged paradise that was her childhood home. The island of Antigua is a magical place of breathtaking beauty - with cloudless skies, dazzling blue waters, and majestic sunsets. But it is ...Show more
A Spy in Plain Sight - The Inside Story of America's Most Damaging Russian Spy and the Implications for National Security Today by Lis Wiehl
$42.99 AUD
Category: Politics
New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl delivers a behind-the-scenes account of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a church-going father of five, sold national security secrets to Russia for more than two decades--and how America's current political climate makes it still po ...Show more
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker; Carol D. Leonnig;
$27.26 AUD
Category: Politics
Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington DC, and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign alliances and tested American institutions. It would be all too easy to mistak ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expa ...Show more
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity Ser.
A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably de ...Show more