Empire Building - The Construction of British India 1690-1860 by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focusing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defense, urbanization, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building' ...Show more
Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman; June Cohen; Deron Triff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn't talent, network, or strategy. It's an entrepreneurial mindset--and that mindset can be cultivated. "If you're scaling a company--or if you just love a well-told story--thi ...Show more
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Watching Brief - Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice by Julian Burnside
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a sharp decline in respect for human rights and the international rule of law. The legal conventions of the new realpolitik seem to owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva. Australia has tarnished its reputation in the field of human rights, through its ...Show more
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after Tiananmen Square by Liao Yiwu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our tim ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journa ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2023 by Russ Radcliffe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. Featuring Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Johannes Leak, Sean Leahy, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Ro ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Tim Marshall on Geopolitics Ser.
Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more