Housing - The Great Australian Right by Kevin Bell
19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Housing: the Great Australian Right argues that governments have the capacity and the power toresolve this national plight. The first step is for Australia to rethink its approach to housing policy andrecognise access to housing - having a home - as a fundamental human right.The current crisis can be tr ...Show more
HAMAS: The Quest for Power by Beverley Milton-Edwards, Stephen Farrell
36.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood grow to chall ...Show more
Rebellion - How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart Again by Robert Kagan
45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced. By 2024, it might be irreversible [and] will change almost everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf, Financial Times A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to o ...Show more
America Last - The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn
47.95 AUD
Category: Politics
In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon. It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat th ...Show more
Justice for Some - Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
37.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destructio ...Show more
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came To Control Your Life) by George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison
28.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives- our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit - the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidab ...Show more
Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad
29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
*FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF ENTER GHOST*'Recognising the Stranger combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose.' SALLY ROONEY'A pitch-perfect example of how the novelist can get to the heart of the matter better than a million arg ...Show more
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country's governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why? Quite simply, some ...Show more
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action by Jennifer Rayner
19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The climate assertions that only prevent effective action, and what could replace them The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being pursued are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps we’re taking to build a clean energy e ...Show more
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A classic work of social science from 'the twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'One of the most powerful books in social sciences ever written. ... A must-read.' Thomas Piketty Tracing the history of capitalism in England and beyond, Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 classic b ...Show more
Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover
26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' --Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism, and even antisemitism, when th ...Show more
The Statute of Liberty: How Australians can take back their rights by Geoffrey Robertson
22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Australian people emerged from a polyglot mixture of nationalities and other races: a kind of human minestrone. Not only a race, but a race apart, thanks to the kindness of distance. What distinctive moral vision have we attained from the struggles and sacrifices of our forebears? If we are to prese ...Show more