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Truth Is Trouble by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
Fire Flood and Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies by Carl Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In this work of daring and immersive contemporary anthropology, Carl Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, journeys deep inside Donald Trump's rallies seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base. This book proceeds fr ...Show more
Sapiens: A Graphic History - The Birth of Humankind - Volume 1 by Yuval Noah Harari; David Vandermeulen, Daniel Casanave
$39.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life.One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species ...Show more
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
$22.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a ...Show more
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace by Nigel Cawthorne
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Buckingham Palace’s greatest fear came true when the FBI arrested Prince Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein on charges of under-age sex trafficking. Just before the marriage of Kate and Wills, a snapshot of Andrew with his arm around the naked midriff of the billionaire’s most articulate victim had surface ...Show more
Ten Rogues by Peter Grose
$29.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale. It has everything: defiance of authority, treachery, piracy and mutiny, escape from the hangman's noose and even love. Peopled with good men, buffoons, ...Show more
The Snowy: A History by Siobhán McHugh
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The Snowy - A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project. The Snowy Scheme was ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2020 by Russ Radcliffe
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
Welcome to 2020. Brexit, Trump, leadership challenges- those were the days. The Morrison government, after delivering its promised tax cuts, had only one thing on its policy mind- protecting its presumptive budget surplus. Sure, avoiding questions about such trifles as sports rorts, robodebt cock-ups, a ...Show more
The Catalpa Rescue: The Most Dramatic & Successful Prison Break in Australian History by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the ...Show more
