The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics by BULL, HEDLEY
$53.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away The by Peter Hartcher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This book will change the way you think about your country... Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care? In ...Show more
The Undesirables by Mark Isaacs
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
On Friday 19th July 2013, it was reported in the Australian media that over 150 asylum seekers had rioted and razed the Nauru Regional Processing Centre to the ground. The Nauruan community were mobilised into an emergency police force in an attempt to subdue the men. Asylum seekers, Nauruans and Austra ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Australia has always been reliant on 'great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policyandmdash;first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand ba ...Show more
Dirty Secrets : Our ASIO files by Meredith Burgmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby, Peter Cundall, Gary Foley and Anne Su ...Show more
Class Act by Maxine McKew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Through a series of conversations and case studies Maxine McKew documents the transformation that's now underway in classrooms around Australia and examines the strategies that are helping to lift academic performance, particularly in some of Australia's most challenged schools. Class Act invites reflec ...Show more
Australian Moment by George Megalogenis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012 The book of the TV series Making Australia Great There's no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we've learnt to use our brains in ...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
Stand and Deliver: Fifty Years of the National Press Club of Australia by Steve Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
If Australian politics and public policy is a war of ideas, the National Press Club is the battleground. For the past half-century, the NPC has been the epicentre of political and social debate in Australia. Leaders and opinion-makers have used its stage to launch leadership bids, rattle the cage of ...Show more
Flashpoints: the Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years), with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout history, and where ...Show more
Gillard Project by Michael Cooney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It was a comedy of manners, it was a comedy of errors, it was a tragedy, it was a bunch of stuff that happened; it was a calvary and a triumph. This is what I most want to tell you: it was worth it. Michael Cooney was Julia Gillard's speechwriter for most of her time in office. He came to the job a true ...Show more
Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now seen to have serious flaws, and 'Progressive Capitalism' seeks to replace it with a new, Progressive political economy. This is based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries ...Show more