Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth What is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor explains how, behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, capital is created--and why this l ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
$89.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev; Stephen Holmes; Anon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformati ...Show more
Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Transformed America by Jonathan Chait
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America s best and most accomplished presidents.Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from collapse, expanded he ...Show more
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the comm ...Show more
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
New York Times bestseller Now with a new Epilogue, containing letters of response from Palestinian readers. "A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli co ...Show more
Move Fast and Break Things - How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What it Means for All of Us by Jonathan Taplin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content - the artists, writers and musicia ...Show more
Red Notice by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more