Growing Pains: the Future of Democracy (and Work) by Gwynne Dyer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We are now living in a world where Brexit and Trump are daily realities. But how did this come about? And what does it mean for the future? Populism and ultra-nationalism brought about the rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s. Now, as Trump sits in the White House, Britain negotiates its way out o ...Show more
New Power by Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this indispensable guide to navigating the 21st century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing - and how 'new power' is reshaping politics, business and life. Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Australian Jere ...Show more
The World As It Is - Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From one of Barack Obama's most trusted aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency--and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive."The closest view of Obama we're likely to get until he publishes his own memoir."--George Packer, The N ...Show more
Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America by Seth Abramson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance. Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living through ...Show more
The EU - An Obituary by John R. Gillingham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU? Fully updated and revised, this new edition of John R. Gillingham's swingeing study explains why the European Union is so profoundly unsuited to the modern political economy. In a devastating historical account of political failure, he takes readers back t ...Show more
The Triumph of Injustice - How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez; Gabriel Zucman
$43.95 AUD
Category: Politics
America's runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investig ...Show more
The List : A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year by Amy Siskind
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom The Weekly List. In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump 's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compi ...Show more
West Winging It by Pat Cunnane
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is it more like The West Wing or House of Cards? Do you have to put your try table up on Air Force One? Is the President any good at basketball? What do you call him when you talk to him? How do you pick the people the president meets with? Is he really that cool, or is it an act? West Winging It pulls ...Show more
Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships. "Introducing Capitalism" tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and st ...Show more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What would a fair and equal society look like? Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European cultur ...Show more
People Without Power by Thomas Frank
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An eye-opening account of populism, the most important -- and misunderstood -- movement of our time. Everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today, populism is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But th ...Show more
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER. The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, 'the emerging rock star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising' (Telegraph), shows that ...Show more