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
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
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
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
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke
$49.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however-the burst of the housing ...Show more
Econobabble : How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'Our world abounds with businesspeople and politicians spouting arguments that sound like economics, but aren't. If you fear you've been taken in - or have just had your doubts - this is the book to set things straight. It is the best guide you'll find to the literal non-sense that usually passes for ec ...Show more
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts Through the Evidence by Ian Harris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, pract ...Show more
More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First by Steve Hilton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us - it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people first. It's time to make the worl ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
What is a Refugee? by William Maley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In a globalised world, wealthy states have the resources to protect refugees
Europe at the Gates: In the Era of Brexit and Trump by Guy Rundle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Politics
The people of France went to the polls in 2017, narrowly avoiding elevating President Le Pen, a year after `Brexit' and Trump had stood the world on its ear. In Brussels, the EU's leaders consign Greece to despair, pure colonial repression. In Scandinavia, nativist parties take the place social democrat ...Show more
Ask a North Korean : Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation by Daniel Tudor; NK News Staff (Contribution by); Andrei Lankov (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"In his new book, Ask a North Korean, Daniel Tudor--a former Economist journalist and current Korean beer entrepreneur-- wants people to understand the true lives of everyday North Koreans. Using translated essays written by defectors, the book covers topics from politics to pornography." -- The Boston ...Show more