The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Lost Copy:The Endless Wars by John Martinkus
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics
“We, his friends, never knew if it was suicide or not but the reality was Tor [Norwegian journalist Torgeir Norling], who had shared so many dangers, hardships and fear, with us was gone. Tor was a journalist’s journalist. I had covered East Timor with him in the late nineties. Like me he had gone on t ...Show more
Visiting Immigration Detention - Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie
$185.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Global Migration and Social Change Ser.
Michelle Peterie's revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia's onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the ...Show more
The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasksof the Proletariat in the Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Lenin's booklet State and Revolution is widely recognised to be a lightening bolt in Marxist theory. Written in the months immediately running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional socialist concept of the state on its head, arguing for the need to smash the organs of the bo ...Show more
Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story by Mark Edele
$32.00 AUD
Category: Politics
An examination of the causes of the Russian invasion and its implications for the future In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conf ...Show more
The Gillard Governments by Chris/Evans, Mark/Wettenhall, Roger Aulich
$49.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The years 2010 to 2013 saw a remarkable period in Australian history: Julia Gillard became the first female prime minister in Australia after she successfully staged a surprise leadership challenge against the sitting prime minister Kevin Rudd. A few months later she led her party to the 2010 federal el ...Show more
Decision Points by George W. Bush
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the ...Show more
9-11: Was There an Alternative? by Noam Chomsky
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics
In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post-9/11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity ...Show more
The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family by Peter Firstbrook
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family. Peter is the only person to have traced Obama's roots from the present back through more than twenty generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's remarkable oral tradition. Seen though the eyes of the Obama family th ...Show more