The Economic Weapon - The Rise of Sanctions As a Tool of Modern War by Nicholas Mulder
$51.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development
Getting China Wrong by Aaron L. Friedberg
$51.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on polit ...Show more
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multi-faceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a super-power ...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
Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall by Ruth BEN-GHIAT
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Ours is the age of the strongman. Countries from Russia to India, Turkey to America are ruled by men who combine populist appeal with authoritarian policy. They have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And they do so by drawing on a pla ...Show more
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitne ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ord ...Show more
12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, Jeff ...Show more
A Postcard from the Future by Ben Hamer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We’re experiencing change at the fastest rate in human history, but it’s also the slowest that we’ll experience for the rest of our lives. The reality is that the world is moving faster than we’re evolutionarily equipped to deal with, which can be pretty overwhelming, particularly off the back of a glob ...Show more
Brownie: The Minister for Good Times by John Brown
$38.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Memoirs of John Brown AO, Minister for Tourism, Sport, The Arts, in the Hawke Labor Government. Written by John Brown the book covers his early years growing up in Sydney's western suburbs, winning the seat of Parramatta for the Labor party and his subsequent ministerial responsibilities. The "put a shr ...Show more
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violen ...Show more
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Berlin Family Lectures
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more