North Korea: State of Paranoia by Paul French
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Asian Arguments Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Secretive, mysterious, and almost certainly dangerous, North Korea is an object of endless fascination--and worry--for the rest of the world. The world's most inaccessible nuclear power, it retains Gulag-style prison camps, completely blocks Internet access, and forbids citizens to talk to foreigners wi ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
Offshore : Behind the Wire on Nauru and Manus by Madeline Gleeson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012? This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of offshore processing since it recommenced in 2012. It explains why offshore processing was re ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016 by P. J. O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business. How ...Show more
What a Time to be Alive: That and Other Lies in the 2016 Campaign by Mark Di Stefano
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly ambitious men who want to win their first election, whatever it takes. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is h ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
Reboot: A Democracy Makeover to Empower Australia's Voters by Richard Walsh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
If you want real change, change the system. Reboot offers a tantalising glimpse of a better future, where politicians work directly and closely with those who voted for them. Utopian? Disillusional? Richard Walsh makes a tour de force argument for doing away with the senate, embracing a republic and hav ...Show more
Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young by Helen Razer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and f ...Show more
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book" " A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic"This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take ...Show more
Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy by Murray Bookchin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide ra ...Show more