Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: General Adult
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches ...Show more
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel by Shimon Peres
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Shimon Peres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, caps his legacy with this final book, completed shortly before his death - a majestic, intimate, and personal exploration of modern Israel's history and values that provides invaluable insights for it ...Show more
Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesme ...Show more
Tales from Boomtown - Western Australian Premiers from Brand to Mcgowan UPDATED EDITION by Peter Kennedy (Revised by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Revised and Updated, with analysis by the ABC's Antony Green. Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy has spent nearly fifty years observing twelve Premiers of Western Australia, across an extraordinary period of change in Western Australia's history, from 1970 to 2019. His insider account reveals is ...Show more
The Utopia of Rules - On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber - one of the most prominent and provocative thinkers working today - takes a journey through ancient an ...Show more
Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power by Joel Deane
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics - the winning, the wielding, the losing. Taking us into the inner sanctum of st ...Show more
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"By tracing the history of modern Russia from Mikhail Gorbachev to the rise of ex KGB agent Vladimir Putin, Arkady Ostrovsky reveals how the Soviet Union came to its end and how Russia has since reinvented itself. Russia today bears little resemblance to the country that embraced freedom in the late eig ...Show more
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly by Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than US$100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we wor ...Show more