What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Zionism. When apartheid in South Africa ended, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keepi ...Show more
What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19 by Emma Dawson; Janet McCalman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainab ...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 The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established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
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics by Andrew Leigh
$44.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse. Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic event--for example, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or out- ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World by Gary Younge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What does it mean to call yourself British in the 21st Century? If Obama was raised by his white mother, why is he the first black president? Why do Muslims feel more at home in America, which invaded Iraq, than in France, which opposed the invasion? Who are we, and why does it matter?
Who Dares Loses: Pariah Policies (In the National Interest) by Wayne Errington, Peter van Onselen
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why does Australia go through cycles of public policy boldness and timidity? The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the Australian political system has much more tolerance for policy innovation than appeared to be the case on the evidence of the previous twenty years. As another election approaches, though, ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
Why Governments Get It Wrong: and how they can get it right by Dennis C. Grube
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Sometimes governments seem clueless. At other times, they are able to project a sense of calm competence. Some decisions leave people confused, whilst others make sense even to those who oppose them. Why? Why Governments Get it Wrong argues that governments are at their most effective when they get the ...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
Why We're Polarised by Ezra Klein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended? 'Few books are as well-matched to the moment of their publication as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarised.' - Dan Hopkins, The Washington Post'It is likely to become the political bo ...Show more