My Life by President Bill Clinton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
President Bill Clinton's "My Life" is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own e ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries - Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
This is the lively and highly entertaining travel diary of a youthful Che Guevara, when as a medical student in 1951 he sets out from Argentina on an unreliable motorcycle with his buddy Alberto Granado to discover the continent of Latin America.
The King's Speech by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$21.99 AUD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an En ...Show more
JIGSAW the Biography of Johannes Bjelke-Petersen Statesman-Not Politician
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political
Margaret and Gough - The Love Story That Shaped a Nation by Susan Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Gough had no small talk, Margaret had the gift of easy conversation. He was often ill-at-ease in company and preferred his books. She was warm, inclusive and jollied him along. He had a vicious tongue and a quick temper. She always tried to see the best in people. He knew everything about the ideology, ...Show more
Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival by Anna Bligh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political
An uplifting memoir of resilience and strength from ex-Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh. Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a single mother in the working class Gold Coast, a young girl with a soon-to-be-estranged dad who struggled with alcoholism. She spent ...Show more
Windsor's Way by Tony Windsor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
With neither side of Parliament receiving a clear majority at the 2010 election, Tony Windsor was placed in a balance of power situation along with five other crossbench members of the House of Representatives. He had already been in this sort of situation once before, in 1991, when he became the indepe ...Show more
Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty by Ben Stewart
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
There is a saying in Russian jails. Ne ver ne boysya ne prosi: don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here will always disappoint you. Don't fear because whatever you're scared of, you are powerless to prevent it. And don't beg because nobody ever begged their way out of a Russian ...Show more
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a ...Show more
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her fami ...Show more
Long Haul, the Lessons from Public Life by John Brumby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political
The Long Haul distils a series of practical lessons on leadership and public life from John Brumby's thirty years in politics. It offers insights into the challenges and opportunities Australia currently faces and argues for real political reform, a different future for our federation and strong leaders ...Show more
Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
"In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. By that time, she had put her deep disappointment in her marriage behind her and developed an independent life:now threatened by the public role she would be ...Show more