Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more
Hyper-Capitalism: The Modern Economy, its Values, and How to Change Them by Larry;Kasser Gonick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalismIn Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising, market-worshipping hyper-capitalism is threatening human well-being, social justice, and the planet.Drawing fro ...Show more
The Carpet Wars : A Journey Across the Islamic Heartlands by Christopher Kremmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In 1990, Christopher Kremmer arrived in Afghanistan to interview the doomed communist president, Dr Najibullah as rampaging factions of mujahideen massed on the outskirts of Kabul. He found himself intrigued by the politics and culture of the land, and his book provides revealing, often first-hand portr ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
The Ascent to Power, 1996: The Howard Government, volume 1 by Tom Frame
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Ascent to Power, 1996 takes a critical look at the Howard Government's rise to power; its policies and priorities, successes and shortcomings in what Paul Kelly calls the `foundational year'. This first of four volumes on the Howard Government's nearly 12 years in office draws on unpublished documen ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
In Defence of Open Society by George Soros
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
George Soros - universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics and investment success, and now under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites around the world - gives an impassioned defence of his core belief in open society. George Soros is among the world's mos ...Show more
Trigger Warnings, Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right by Jeff Sparrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess - and then he won the presidency on an antiestablishment ticket. T ...Show more
Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth - The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies by The Washington The Washington Post
$40.00 AUD
Category: Politics
In perilous times, facts, expertise, and truth are indispensable. President Trump's flagrant disregard for the truth and his self-aggrandizing exaggerations, specious misstatements, and bald-faced lies have been rigorously documented and debunked since the first day of his presidency by The Washington P ...Show more
Behind the Exclusive Brethren by Michael Bachelard
$27.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Out of nowhere in 2004, this obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about ...Show more
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total world domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow.Hegemony: (n.) dominance exercised by one state over othersFor over half a century, the United States have been pursuing a 'gr ...Show more
All Hell Breaking Loose - The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change by Michael T. Klare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military. The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change--still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet ...Show more