Party Time: Who Runs China and How by Rowan Callick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Who is running China? Where does real power lie? In Party Time, Rowan Callick goes behind the scenes of reveal the workings of the county's political elite. This is a vivid, ground-breaking book about the world's most powerful institutions- the Chinese Communist Party. Nearly a century after its undergr ...Show more
Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation by Laura Tingle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In this brilliant short book - an expanded version of her acclaimed Quarterly Essay - Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of gover ...Show more
The Professionals: Strategy, Money and the Rise of the Political Campaigner in Australia by Stephen Mills
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Stephen Mills has conducted on-the-record interviews with every living national campaign director of the two major political parties. Their experience covers the 15 federal election campaigns from 1974 to the present day. Built around twelve critical moments in Australian electoral history, The Professi ...Show more
Drone Theory by Grégoire Chamayou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare. In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world. Drawing on philosophical debate, ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know About the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians by George Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. It details how our Constitution was drafted, and shows how Aboriginal peoples came to be excluded from the new political settlement. It explains what the 1967 referendum - ...Show more
War: What is it Good for?: The Role of Conflict in Civilisation, from Primates to Robots by Ian Morris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future generations. But, argues bestselling historian Ian Morr ...Show more
Hard Choices A Memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67TH SECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives,' Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this perso ...Show more
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
$36.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," comes an expose of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup, environmen ...Show more
Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save it by Harry Leslie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it...' In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet sale ...Show more
Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine by Daniel Halper
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons' return to political prominence.In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they have gone from ...Show more
Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East by Raja Shehadeh
$21.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines more than ever - and for reasons that become ever more heartbreaking - Shifting Sands brings together fifteen impassioned and informed voices to talk about a region with unlimited potential, and yet which can feel, as one writer puts it, 'as thoug ...Show more
Rethinking Capitalism: Economic Policy for Sustainable and Equitable Growth by Mariana Mazzucato
$44.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Political Quarterly Monograph Series
In Rethinking Capitalism, leading economists challenge orthodox ideas about economic theory and policy and propose novel approaches to achieving a more just and sustainable economy. * Details the reality of contemporary capitalism and the failure of current economic policies to encourage long-term growt ...Show more