Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$42.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Bibi: My Story by Benjamin Netanyahu
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's sweeping, moving autobiography, one of the most formidable and insightful leaders of our time tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending Israel and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit ...Show more
Black's Law Dictionary – 1st Edition (1891): Volume 1 Paperback
$65.00 AUD
Category: Politics
China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to its gro ...Show more
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
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 family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
A Sense of Balance by John Howard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect that sense of balan ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
Speechless - Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael Knowles
$49.99 AUD
$61.99 (19% off)
Category: Politics
"Political correctness" has taken politeness and turned it into a weapon of censorship and intimidation. In the workplace, on social media, and even at the dinner table, Americans are confronted daily with a laundry list of words they're "not allowed" to say--and that list is updated constantly and with ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians by Paul Frijters, Cameron Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The shocking story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, and managed to rob the majority of ordinary Australians of half our wealth. 'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be sho ...Show more