Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a commo ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more
Uncommon Wealth - Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'BRILLIANTLY ARRANGED AND RICH WITH FRESH INSIGHTS, UNCOMMON WEALTH REMINDS US HOW THE FORGOTTEN STORIES OF EMPIRE AND DECOLONISATION CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR DAILY LIVES IN BRITAIN - AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - UP TO TODAY' AKALABritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.In Uncommon W ...Show more
Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Understanding Trump requires a willingness to study him and learn from him. His principles grow our of five decades of business and celebrity success. He does things differently than traditional politicians because his entire life experience has been different than traditional politicians. There will b ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
Unstable Relations - Indigenous People and Environmentalism in Contemporary Australia by Eve Vincent (Editor); Tim Neale (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The 1970s witnessed the emergence of a global environmental movement in response to rampant resource extraction. This moment gave rise to a celebrated 'green-black alliance' between environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Australia. However, in recent years, this relationship has come under increased ...Show more
Victory: The Inside Story of Labor's Return to Power by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The inside story of Labor's return to power. Anthony Albanese's 2022 election victory was the most consequential in decades. As well as ending a 'lost decade' of conservative rule and bringing Labor into Federal power for the first time since 2013, it ushered in a new force in politics. The victory of t ...Show more
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world — one small change at a time 'A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.' — Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, ...Show more
Voices of us: The independents' movement transforming Australian democracy by Tim Dunlop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australian politics is changing.The two-party system is disappearing. The balance of power is shifting, and while it feels fragile now, we may just be on the precipice of a transformative era for democracy in Australia.On 21 May 2022, Australia voted, not just for change in individual seats, but a compl ...Show more
Wake up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn't coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech. 'This is my clarion call, as a liberal myself, for them to stop screaming, shaming and cancelling everyone they disagree with, and start being par ...Show more
War for Eternity - The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Steve Bannon in the United States. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. Gábor Vona in Hungary. All rising to power in the past decade. All affiliated with an obscure philosophical movement called Traditionalism. Since the early 20th century, Traditionalism has defined itself against m ...Show more
War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience by Todung Mulya Lubis
$40.00 AUD
Category: Politics
What stands between Indonesia taking its rightful place in the world?For Indonesian society, corruption remains a huge problem. Some of the reasons for this are easy to identify, flowing on from the authoritarianism of the Soeharto New Order (1966-1998). Other factors are less well known and less able t ...Show more