What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
“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
What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19 by Emma Dawson; Janet McCalman
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainab ...Show more
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An essential book' Washington Post Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chavez - populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing a ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sustainability
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Except for the foundational belief that rape is a crime, with a criminal and a victim, I will not take anything else for granted.Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a woman?s magazine challenging the way in whi ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
Where Power Stops - The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought the highest office. And yet when they reached their goal, they often found that the power they had imagin ...Show more
Where We Go from Here - Two Years in the Resistance by Bernie Sanders
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
During his campaign for President in 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders repeatedly stated that the future of America was dependent upon its willingness to start a political revolution. Real change never occurs from the top down — it always happens from the bottom up. That’s what he said when he ran for Presid ...Show more
White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by MICK RYAN
$44.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Casemate Fiction Ser.
After decades of poising on the brink, the United States and China finally go to war when China invades the island of Taiwan. Deploying their most futuristic technologies in this grand strategic competition of the 21st century, the stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the Taiwanese people ...Show more
Whitlam's Children? - Labor and the Greens in Australia by Shaun Crowe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Whitlam's Children is the first systematic study of the Labor and Greens relationship in Australia, examining its history, experience in government, and prospects for the future. Based on over forty interviews with party figures - including leaders and senior ministers - the book asks a number of pressi ...Show more
Who Cares?: Life on Welfare in Australia by Eve Vincent
$33.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The welfare state meets the 2020s in AustraliaThe twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive in its provision of this so-called care. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives ...Show more
Who Killed My Father by Édouard Louis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. In Who Killed My Father, douard Louis explores key moments in his father's life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship. Told with the fire of a writer determined on soci ...Show more