New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitzer ...Show more
Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC by David Anderson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest
Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives us a rare insight into the ABC he knows intimately: a cultural powerhouse where Australian identity is cel ...Show more
Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World by Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An insightful playbook for getting out of the permacrisis we seem mired in’ - Walter Isaacson ‘A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world’ - Sheryl Sandberg Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world. ...Show more
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers by Chris Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
Reading the Constitution - Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism by Stephen Breyer
$64.00 AUD
$65.00 (1% off)
Category: Politics
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism domin ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Indi Way: how a rural community sparked a social and political movement by Voices for Indi
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A behind-the-scenes account of how a rural community found its own voice, elected its own independent representatives, and inspired a national movement that is transforming Australian politics. Twelve people met for the first time at their local library in the rural and regional electorate of Indi in n ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A new type of Cold War is emerging. The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas. Controversial fracking technology has given America unprecedented leverage as the world's leading energy powerhouse, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia, upending t ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...Show more