Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons (PB) by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Julia Gillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. As a result of their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...Show more
The Global Rise of China by Alvin Y. So
$35.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: China Today
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses. Exactly how did this Chinese developmental miracle happen? Focusing on ...Show more
Battleground - Why the Liberal Party shirtfronted Tony Abbott by Wayne ERRINGTON and Peter VAN ONSELEN
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Tony Abbott came to the prime ministership lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since Whitlam. Why then did he fail to succeed in the job to which he had aspired for decades? Battleground chronicles the paradox of the Abbott prime ministership: steadfast loyalty when pragmatism was requ ...Show more
Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica's Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
What if you could look into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with messages that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor turned the world upside down. Funded by a billionaire on a crusade to start his own far-right insurgency, Cambridge Analyt ...Show more
Investing with She's on the Money: Build Your Future Wealth by Victoria Devine
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The new book from the award-winning, number one bestselling author of She's on the Money Everything you need to know to get started investing and building your future wealth with financial advisor Victoria Devine, creator of the She's on the Money podcast. Secure your copy now!
The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLSDo you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our timesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst o ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A masterclass on how politics works and how to achieve real change.In recent years, the world of politics has taken a series of disastrous wrong turns. We have witnessed leaders who can't - or shouldn't be allowed to - lead, policies that are either self-serving or don't work, and world views that are c ...Show more
The Origins Of Political Order: From pre-human times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the p ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
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