The Storm Before the Calm - America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond by George Friedman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
Contest for the Indo-Pacific: Why China Won't Map the Future by Rory Medcalf
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What we call a part of the world - Asia, Europe, the Middle East - seems innocuous. But the name of a region is totemic- a mental map that guides the decisions of leaders and the story of international order, war and peace. In recent years, the label 'Indo-Pacific' has suddenly gained wide use, includin ...Show more
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture by Senate Select Senate Select Committee On Intelligence; Daniel Jones (Introduction by); Dianne Feinstein (Foreword by)
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Category: Politics
"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." --Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of the "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," a U.S. Senate investigation -- a.k.a., The Torture Report. Based on m ...Show more
The Road: Uprising in West Papua by John Martinkus
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Category: Politics
Chemical weapons deployed. Choppers taken out. Tens of thousands of people displaced. Communications repressed. The West Papuan independence movement has reignited, and Indonesian troops are cracking down. In The Road, John Martinkus gives a gripping, up-to-date account of the province's descent into a ...Show more
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideologic ...Show more
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. 'An eye-watering account of the president's abuse of the rules of golf' The Sunday Times 'Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all his courses combined. It is by turns amusing a ...Show more
Doing Justice - A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Multi-million-dollar fraud. Terrorism. Mafia criminality. Russian espionage. For eight years Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, successfully prosecuted some of the most high-profile crimes in America. Along the way he gained notoriety as the 'Sheriff of Wall Str ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with e ...Show more
The Courage Of Hopelessness: Chronicles Of A Year Of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Aixek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopele ...Show more
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capit ...Show more
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own re ...Show more
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most influential political and philosophical texts ever writtenOne of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was la ...Show more