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Rage by Bob Woodward
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, e ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
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
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
What if you could look into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with messages that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world upside down. Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to start his own far-right insurgency, Cambridge Analyt ...Show more
Why We're Polarised by Ezra Klein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
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
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
China's Future by David Shambaugh
$33.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning ...Show more
The Political Bubble: Why Australians Don't Trust Politics by Mark Latham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Australians once trusted the democratic process. While we got on with our lives, we assumed our politicians had our best interests at heart. Not anymore. That trust has collapsed. Mark Latham joined the Labor Party in the late 1970s hoping to improve people's lives through parliamentary service. Twenty- ...Show more
The Spirit Level : Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
$26.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do ...Show more
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? T ...Show more
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting PB by Judith Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more
Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment by Clare O'Neil & Tim Watts
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we could tackle key issues - a lagging education system, the destruction of our coastlines, Asia's economic ascendancy - in the decad ...Show more