Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China’s past, prese ...Show more
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An astonishing deep dive into the war in Ukraine - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War - and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin lurched from a calculating, su ...Show more
Victory: The Inside Story of Labor's Return to Power by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The inside story of Labor's return to power. Anthony Albanese's 2022 election victory was the most consequential in decades. As well as ending a 'lost decade' of conservative rule and bringing Labor into Federal power for the first time since 2013, it ushered in a new force in politics. The victory of t ...Show more
Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016 - 2021 by Thomas Piketty
$26.95 AUD
Category: Politics
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century"What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Ye ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks – Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech. Where were you then? And where are we now? Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did pla ...Show more
The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made ...Show more
Plagued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story by Simon Benson
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Category: Politics
This is the inside story of Australia’s two years of hell, when the country was besieged by crisis after crisis, and a rolling series of challenges and setbacks. Much of what took place behind the scenes will astonish the public. Plagued reveals how the critical decisions were actually made, decisions t ...Show more
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schlogel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy by Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threats it now faces.In a healthy democracy we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to dismiss and exile opponents, to treat them with contemp ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A timely, provocative expose of the US's political and business leadership's deep ties to China- a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and ...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