Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Bataviais the greatest story in Australia?s history and history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons.The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mu ...Show more
Woke, Inc by Vivek Ramaswamy
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of capitalism.
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
22.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred re ...Show more
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"It was easy for Vladimir Putin. He could erase the past by hurling secret files into his KGB station’s furnace at the end of the Cold War. In the era of globalised corruption he has since helped to create, destroying the past is not so simple. Every bribe, every kickback to a crony, every transfer of d ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
36.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
59.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union - now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication ' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
27.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
37.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
35.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
Edible Economics - A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha ...Show more