The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
Glory Daze How a World Beating Nation Got So Down on Itself by Jim Chalmers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The book asks how a nation with the developed world's best economy has a dimmer view of its performance than some of the basket case economies of southern Europe have of their own, and how a country that escaped recession and mass unemployment despite the biggest global downturn since the Great Depressi ...Show more
Understanding Power:The Indispensible Chomsky by Noam Chomsky (ed Peter R Mitchell & John Schoeffel)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James B. Comey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In his forthcoming book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey pr ...Show more
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern by Michelle Duff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is lauded as one of the world's most influential people. Her rise to power has been stellar. In 2017, she became leader of the Labour party just seven weeks before the election, at which she claimed the top job.
From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide by Mark Evans; Michelle Grattan; Brendan McCaffrie
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is trust between the government and Australians broken? The country's leading institutions have been ranked among the least trusted in the world at a time when the economy has experienced twenty-seven years of economic growth. This has all happened since the 2016 federal election under the revolving pri ...Show more
Back from the Brink, 1997-2001 - The Howard Government, Vol II by Tom Frame (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The years 1997-2001 were eventful ones for the Howard Government. This second volume of the Howard Government series explores these tumultuous years.In Back from the Brink politicians, commentators and scholars including Michael Wesley, Hugh White, Peter Costello, Phillipa McGuinness and Tom Frame and t ...Show more
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is the story of how state, law and democrac ...Show more