The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service by Kevin P. Riehle
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Concise Histories of Intelligence Ser.
An introduction to Putin’s formidable intelligence and security organization Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming p ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia by Sophie Cousins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The COVID-19 pandemic has with great speed fundamentally altered the world in which we live. The changes it has wrought are of a type and on a scale unseen by most people alive. We are realising the truths we understood as immutable, the basis of our social order, are not rigid and inevitable, but const ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having 'the most acute mind' of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, ge ...Show more
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mys ...Show more
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
Just How Stupid Are We? - Facing the Truth about the American Voter by Rick Shenkman
$53.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans an ...Show more
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"InFaction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood- to be Prime Minister of Australia. Bill Shorten is now a ...Show more
War With Russia: A chillingly accurate political thriller of a Russian invasion of Ukraine by General Sir Richard Shirreff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'You fail to read this book at your peril' - Admiral James G Stavridis, US Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Closely modelled on his NATO experience of war gaming future conflicts, 2017 War With Russia is a chilling account of where we are heading if we fail to recognise the threat posed by ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
Twilight in Jakarta by Mochtar Lubis; Claire Holt (Translator); John H. McGlynn (Translator)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The first Indonesian novel ever to be published in English, Twilight in Jakarta offers a grim cast of characters: corrupt politicians, impotent intellectuals, reckless journalists, manipulative Lefties, and impetuous Moslems, to name a few. Although the novel condemns political practices that were preva ...Show more