Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy by Richard Denniss
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Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more publi ...Show more
Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency by Gareth Evans
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Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why should we in Australia, or any country, care about poverty, human rights atrocities, health epidemics, environmental catastrophes, weapons proliferation or any other problems afflicting faraway countries, when they don’t, as is often the case, have any direct or immediate impact on our own safety or ...Show more
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
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Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Politics | Series: Letters to a Young...
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, w ...Show more
Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America by Alec MacGillis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
.An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States. In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth 'a billion ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
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Category: Politics | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
Stars and Spies by Julius Green, Chris Andrew
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Category: Politics
An original history about spying and showbiz from Shakespeare to the Cold War to present day stardom A hugely entertaining and original history of the interplay between spying and showbiz, featuring Marlowe and Shakespeare, but focusing mostly on the twentieth century, the golden era of the Cold War an ...Show more
Democracy in America by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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Category: Politics | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocquevill ...Show more
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
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Category: Politics
Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect ...Show more
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
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Category: Politics
From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever. "If there is still an American democracy fifty years from now, historians wil ...Show more
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life by Judith Brett
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Category: Politics
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia's brightest and most astute political commentator. Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye ...Show more