The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics - Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order by Taras Kuzio; Paul D'Anieri
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The White House Plumbers TV tie-in: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency by Egil Krogh, Matthew Krogh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
SOON TO BE A FIVE-PART HBO SERIES, STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX
This Is Vegan Propaganda: (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today- the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfo ...Show more
Vystopia - The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non Vegan World by Clare Mann
$20.00 AUD
Category: Vegan Living
This book is the first of its kind to identify the existential crisis faced by vegans. Vystopia is the normal response any feeling human being should have after discovering the nature and extent of society's systematised animal abuse. It's fuelled by the trance-like collusion of non-vegans with a dystop ...Show more
What Were We Thinking - A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose w ...Show more
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World — and How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it. Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are t ...Show more
21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
A Cry from the Far Middle - Dispatches from a Divided Land by P. J. O'Rourke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are wha ...Show more
A Decade of Drift (In the National Interest) by Martin Parkinson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? As a senior public servant during six prime ministerships, Martin Parkinson had a ...Show more
A Democratic Nation: Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 by David Kemp
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A Democratic Nation- Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both national independence and individual freedom.As the third book in a landmark five-vol ...Show more
A Gift Of Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'[He] inspired a generation ...He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in ...Show more