Unhinged : An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration. Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer than Omarosa Manigau ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
War by Bob Woodward
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency.War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.We s ...Show more
Warrior Politics by Robert Kaplan
$21.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
Way Beyond Satire by Rowan Dean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Following the turbulent, crazy, roller-coaster years of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, by late 2013 Australians were looking forward to a steady new era of boring, conservative, grown-up government under Tony Abbott and his Coalition. Little did they know, the real fun had just begun. In this hilarious s ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies-and recog ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
Weatherboard and Iron - Politics, the bush and me by Barnaby Joyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Barnaby Joyce is one of Australia's most recognisable and divisive politicians of the modern era. A former Leader of the Australian National Party,and the Deputy Prime Minister between 2016 and 2018, Joyce's world came crashing down around himin spectacular fashion this year when it was revealedthat he ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
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