Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family’s Story of Home by Fida Jiryis
$44.99 AUD
Category: Politics
After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them.This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present — a seventy-five-ye ...Show more
Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century by David Walker
$25.00 AUD
Category: Politics
To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of anxiety or hope. Generic Asia has been imagined, vis ...Show more
The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022 by Brendan McCaffrie (Editor); Michelle Grattan (Editor); Chris Wallace (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022Australia has rarely endured as many difficulties as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic-dominated Morrison Government’s term of office from its surprise 2019 election win to the 2022 poll. How did government per ...Show more
Respect (In the National Interest) by Jill Hennessy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
When Héritier Lumumba’s Collingwood teammates called him ‘Chimp’, it showed a lack of respect. When the Prime Minister referred to Brittany Higgins by her first name in parliament, it showed a lack of respect. When senator Bill Heffernan referred to then prime minister Julia Gillard as ‘deliberately bar ...Show more
Notes on an Exodus by Richard Flanagan
$9.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Notes on the exodus of refugees from Syria, by Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. With illustrations from Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. In January 2016 Richard Flanagan and Ben Quilty travelled to Lebanon, Greece, and Serbia to follow the river that is the exodus of our age: that of refugees ...Show more
Peril by Bob Woodward
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's account of the presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 revealed the transition from President Trump to President Biden to be one of the most dangerous periods in American history, with the result of the elec ...Show more
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vac ...Show more
The Spymasters - How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office.Only 11 men an ...Show more
The Front Runner by Matt Bai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party?s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumours of marital infidelity and a newspaper?s stakeout of Hart?s home resulted in a ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following th ...Show more
Political Tribes - Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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