Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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Category: Politics
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
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Category: Politics
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
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Category: Politics
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...Show more
Spin Dictators by Daniel Treisman; Sergei Guriev
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Category: Politics
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recap Tayyip Erdog ...Show more
The Party and the People - Chinese Politics in the 21st Century by Bruce J. Dickson
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Category: Politics
Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone-it pairs this with ...Show more
The Chaser Quarterly; Issue 3, Winter 2016 by The Chaser Staff
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics
"From the team behind The Chaser's War on Everything, The Chaser Quarterlyis a journal of low-brow satire and high-brow toilet humour. The Chaser returns to its print roots for the first time in ten years. Featuring new work from Australia's top comedy writers, including long-form satirical essays and s ...Show more
Bolt - Worth Fighting for : Insights and Reflections 2 by Andrew Bolt
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Category: Politics
Andrew Bolt is Australia's most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the rise of the slacktivist. But he also reveals ...Show more
The Putin Interviews : Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin by Robert (FRW) Oliver (CON); Scheer Stone
$28.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Showtime Documentary Films
Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span ...Show more
Stop at Nothing - The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Politics
In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb brings all her wit and perceptiveness to the story of Malcolm Turnbull. This is a memorable look at the Prime Minister in action - his flaws and achievements - as well as his past lives and adventures. Drawing on extensive interviews with Turnbull, Crabb delves into ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down - America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership by Clyde Prestowitz
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Category: Politics
An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted "Timely and thought-provoking, . . .refreshing. . . . Prestowitz provides an unsparing analysis of how Washington's elite fell into the grip of their China delusion."--James Kynge, ...Show more
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder
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Category: Politics
'I was hooked from the first paragraph. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, FREEZING ORDER has a stunning plot ... but with this stunning twist: it is all true' Stephen Fry Following his exp ...Show more
Perception and Misperception in International Politics - New Edition by Robert Jervis (Preface by)
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Category: Politics | Series: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Ser.
Since its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology. This new edition includes an extensive preface by the author reflec ...Show more