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How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Lead the Way: How to Change the World, from the Frontline of the Schoolstrikes by Jean Hinchcliffe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Lead the Way is your ultimate guide to activism and making systematic change, your way. Jean Hinchliffe is one of the key organisers of School Strikes 4 Climate, and in this book she shares her tools, stories and learnings from the movement with you. From identifying your cause to finding allies, planni ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding' - Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. Tim Marshall's global bestselle ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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 is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
Menzies Era by John Howard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia. 'Engaging and revealing .. ...Show more
Can Governments Earn Our Trust? by Donald F. Kettl
$21.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time. It is unquestionably a huge problem, undermining confidence in our elected institutions, shrinking social capital, slowing innovation, and raising existential questions for democratic government itself. What's behind the ris ...Show more
Asian Waters: the Struggle over the Asia Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries. China, Vietnam, Korea and Indonesia assert their right to trade routes, deploying military garri ...Show more
Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An entertaining work of memoir-cum-political strategy' Publishers Weekly The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated th ...Show more
The Breakdown: How to Make Sense of Politics in a Messed-Up World by Tatton Spiller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We're in a time of enormous political engagement, but most of us are ill equipped to truly understand and debate the issues currently rocking our world. Instead, we become entrenched in our echo chambers, convinced that those with a different viewpoint are stupid, awful human beings whose actions must ...Show more