Spin Dictators by Daniel Treisman; Sergei Guriev
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recap Tayyip Erdog ...Show more
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte ...Show more
The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating by Russell Marks
$14.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip - on John Howard- 'The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.' On Peter Costello- 'The thing about poor old Costello is he is ...Show more
The Cost of Labour: How we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting by Natalie Kon-Yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. The loss of agency carried on through her pregnanc ...Show more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel - the last fifteen for The New York Times - presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country's history. A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portr ...Show more
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking ti ...Show more
The Red Hotel - The Untold Story of Stalin s Disinformation War by Alan Philps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In THE RED HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR, former Daily Telegraph Foreign Editor and Russian expert Alan Philps sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing th ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics - Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order by Taras Kuzio; Paul D'Anieri
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The White House Plumbers TV tie-in: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency by Egil Krogh, Matthew Krogh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
SOON TO BE A FIVE-PART HBO SERIES, STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX
This Is Vegan Propaganda: (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today- the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfo ...Show more
Vystopia - The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non Vegan World by Clare Mann
$20.00 AUD
Category: Vegan Living
This book is the first of its kind to identify the existential crisis faced by vegans. Vystopia is the normal response any feeling human being should have after discovering the nature and extent of society's systematised animal abuse. It's fuelled by the trance-like collusion of non-vegans with a dystop ...Show more