Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Battle for Supremacy in the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan
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Category: Politics
IN WHAT REGION OF THE WORLD CAN WE BEST GLIMPSE THE FUTURE? For much of the twentieth century, Europe dominated global attention. Two world wars were won and lost on its battlefields, and the great ideological struggles of the Cold War were played out in its cities. The Atlantic Ocean was the locus of i ...Show more
The War on Populism Consent Factory Essays, Vol. II (2018-2019)
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Category: Politics
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-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 shows us how seven countr ...Show more
Politics Now: The Best of David Rowe by David Rowe
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Category: Politics
A riveting collection from Australia's finest and most instantly recognisable political cartoonist. This first and long-awaited collection throws us into the grotesque, malformed, and subterranean world that is Rowe's vision of politics now. Enter at your own risk. Featuring all the madness and downrigh ...Show more
The Truth About China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers by Bill Birtles
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Category: Politics
'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Em ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
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Category: Politics
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
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Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
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Category: Politics
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to dr ...Show more
The Scomo Diaries: My First Eighteen Months at the Coalface by Tosh Greenslade
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Category: Politics
All aboard the Scomo Express as our hero pulls back the lid on the life and times of one of history's great leaders and humbly serves up -a steaming meat pie of everyman wisdom for the hungering masses. These are the unofficial chronicles of Scotty's first 18 months in his new role as head honcho of the ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
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Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
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Category: Politics
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"FINANCIAL TIMES"From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world s Top 100 Global Thinkers by "Foreign Policy" magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict. Over the last decade, the center of wo ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Politics
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Arch ...Show more