Adults In The Room - My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famouseconomist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.Varoufak ...Show more
When We Were Young (and Foolish): A Memoir of My Misguided Youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr and Kevin Rudd by Greg Sheridan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
By chance, Greg Sheridan's early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who now make up Australia's political leadership. At university Tony Abbott was his best friend; he became close to Peter Costello as well as Labor figures Michael Danby and Michael Eas ...Show more
Money Men, the Australia's Twelve Most Notable Treasurers by Chris Bowen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Money Men is the first in-depth look at the most interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings his unique insider perspective to reveal the lessons learned from the successes and failures of twelve treasurers. From the first pioneer, George Tu ...Show more
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it "Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells ...Show more
Crossing the Line: Australia's Secret History in the Timor Sea by Kim McGrath
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth. With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia's secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. ...Show more
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as " ...Show more
Freedom's Salesman by David Leyonhjelm
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Collection of previously published and delivered articles and speeches covering: Becoming a poltician; balancing the Budget; tax and superannuation; minimum wage; free trade; child care and health care; the Nanny State; same-sex marriage; terrorism; free speech; environment and conservation, and much mo ...Show more
Outsiders by Mark Latham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Mark Latham is the original Outsider, a politician who rose to the very top of his profession but refused to be cowed by political correctness and refused to bend his knee to the leftist fads of the day. Outsiders is a thoughtfully curated collection of Mark's previously-published articles and thoughts ...Show more
The Trouble with Islam Today - A wake-up call for honesty and change by Irshad Manji
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Journalist, iconoclast and rebel Irshad Manji calls herself a Muslim Refusenik. That doesnt mean I refuse to be a Muslim, she writes. It simply means I refuse to join an army of automatons in the name of Allah. These automatons, Manji argues, include many so-called moderate Muslims in the West. In blunt ...Show more
The Nordic Theory of Everything - In Search of a Better Life by Anu Partanen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
At a 2012 conference on social mobility, Ed Miliband said: 'If you want the American dream, go to Finland.' For decades, the country best known for opportunity had been the United States, but that crown has now been taken by our Nordic neighbours. When journalist Anu Partanen moved from her Scandinavian ...Show more
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? Naomi Klein, internationally acclaimed journalist, activist and bestselling author, shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can make things bett ...Show more
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
$26.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena t ...Show more