Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse - What You Urgently Need to Know by Nina Schick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and situations which never actually happened. When co ...Show more
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx, David Bach
$28.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.
Australian Foreign Affairs: Friends, Allies and Enemies; Asia's Shifting Loyalties; Aust by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The tenth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the new alliances, blocs and rivalries that are emerging across the Asia-Pacific as countries adjust to the changing balance of power in a changed world. Friends, Allies and Enemies looks at Australia’s diplomatic options as loyalties shift in an in ...Show more
A Love Letter to Europe - An Outpouring of Love and Sadness from Our Writers, Thinkers and Artists by Melvyn Bragg; Simon Callow; Tracey Emin; Pete Townshend; Jeffrey Boakye; Onjali Rauf; Tony Robinson; Will Hutton; Margaret Drabble
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Great writers, artists, musicians and thinkers in British life say what Europe means to them: an outpouring of love and sadness. With pieces from Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Alan Hollinghurst, Will Hutton, Holly Johnson, Penelope Lively, Jonathan Meades, Deborah Moggach, Alan M ...Show more
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Trump
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m ...Show more
2020: The Year That Changed Us by The Conversation; Molly Glassey (Contribution by)
$21.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In January 2020, Australia went from battling one of its worst-ever bushfire seasons to preparing for COVID-19 to hit its shores. What ensued was crisis: a pandemic, political upheaval, an international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies dwarfed by a world spinning on an a ...Show more
The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics by Margot Saville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville, this is the fourth book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. In the 2 ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
Disloyal - A Memoir - The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication.The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney And Personal Advisor--The Man Who Helped Get Him Into the Oval OfficeOnce Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staun ...Show more
Blood Lust , Trust & Blame by Samantha Crompvoets
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
As Australia comes to grips with accusations that some of its elite soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan, a catchcry for certain commentators is that the 'fog of war' explains, justifies and possibly excuses the alleged atrocities that have come to light. The term seeks to capture the uncertaint ...Show more
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by DAVIS, STEPHEN
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
**Soon to be a major TV drama** The true story behind the secret of Flight 149 and the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years. On 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 4 ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan by Ahmad Shuja Jamal; William Maley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant degree, they were the resu ...Show more