Young Hawke: The Making of a Larrikin by David Day
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, Australia's iconic larrikin PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds new light on the early years of a political legend. David Day's biography of the young Bob Hawke takes readers on a journey ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other. We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighb ...Show more
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink: Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other. This is a deeply historically informed, characteristically mordant account of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a divided country. Watson considers how things ...Show more
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came To Control Your Life) by George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
$28.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Neoliberalism — Do you know what it is? We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives- our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit - the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most p ...Show more
White Terror: A Neo-Nazi Killing Spree and the Global Rise of Homegrown Terrorists by Jacob Kushner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany – in an engrossing global story that examines violence, modern racism and national trauma. Before the storming of the U.S. Capitol; before the mass shootings a ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BO ...Show more
Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' --Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism, and even antisemitism, when th ...Show more
We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
The Great Wave: The Era Of Radical Disruption And The Rise Of The Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave ...Show more
People Power How Australian referendums are lost and won by Williams & Hume
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A full history of constitutional change in Australia, this analysis examines the nation's referendum record and explains why referendum approvals have been so rare. Including interviews with leading proponents for constitutional change as well as political cartoons and brochures from key campaigns, this ...Show more
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country's governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why? Quite simply, some ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more