A Conservative's Manifesto by Tony Abbott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Tony Abbott explains his personal political faith and offers it as a way forward for the Liberal and National parties. Starting with an account of human nature and Australian society, Abbott develops a series of political positions that the conservative parties could adopt to rehabilitate themselves wit ...Show more
Reconciliation - Islam, Democracy & the West by Benazir Bhutto
$34.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Completed shortly before her assassination on December 27, 2007, this is Bhutto's assessment of the nature of Pakistan's relationship with the West, with Islam and with extremism. She demonstrates that extremism is not inherent to Islam but that various factors, including some policies of the West, have ...Show more
Allied and Addicted by Alison Broinowski
$22.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Scribe short books
In many respects, Australia behaves as if it were still a colonial dependency. Our policies on foreign affairs, trade, human rights, and the environment seem to be uncritically allied to those of the United States. This timely book argues that our development as an independent nation has stalled and whe ...Show more
HOWARD MIRACLE INTERVIEWS FROM THE 7.30 by CLARKE JOHN
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics
More insightful interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts on ABC TV's 'The 7.30 Report' (I have checked this statement and feel the expression 'broadcast' reflects a dangerous and unacceptable political bias. I have therefore instructed my de ...Show more
The Mess They Made : The Middle East After Iraq by Gwynne Dyer
$27.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Argues that the Middle East is about to change fundamentally and everything is now up for grabs: regimes, ethinic pecking orders within states, even national borders themselves are liable to change without notice. Five years from now there could be an Islamic Republic of Arabia, an independent Kurdistan ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities : Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A.C. Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was ...Show more
East And West; The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future by Chris Patten
$43.95 AUD
Category: Politics
From the last governor of Hong Kong, a controversial, astute, and thought-provoking analysis of the Asian phenomenon and the future of economic and political liberty in China and East Asia in the next century. For Chris Patten, Hong Kong was an extraordinary vantage point from which to view the growing ...Show more