The Many-Sided Triangle - Adoption in Australia by Audrey Marshall; Margaret McDonald
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A history of adoption in Australia, examining its law and practice. It considers why adoption reached a peak of popularity in the early 1970s, and looks at the drama of adoption from the viewpoint of all the participants, including workers in the various systems. Case studies are included.
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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
Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven g ...Show more
The Decadent Society - How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a "clever and stimulating" (The New York Times Book Review) portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dark forces seemingly beyond our control. Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media fren ...Show more
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés by Felicity Ruby + Peter Cronau Eds.
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics
In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations - revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world - as battling sport ...Show more
Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An essential overview of the problems of our world today - and how we should prepare for tomorrow - from the world's leading public intellectual. We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely ...Show more
Behind the Lines : The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2016 by Museum of Australian Democracy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2016 celebrates another year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation's best cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutely observed j ...Show more
Chasing the Scream The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the war on drugs is not what we see on our TV screens. In Chasing the Scream, Johann Hari shares his discoveries through the riveting true stories he uncovered on a 30,000-mile journey - from th ...Show more
10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Nellie Bly
$20.95 AUD
Category: Politics
ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go th ...Show more
The Mind of the Islamic State: Milestones Along the Road by Robert Manne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"'A deep dive into how the ideologues behind Salafi jihadism shaped the global menace that we now know as Islamic State. If you want to understand how it all began, this is an essential read.' - Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent for theGuardian, winner of the 2015 Orwell Prize for journalism So o ...Show more
On Tyranny - An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero by Leo Strauss; Alvin Johnson (Foreword by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics
2015 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero," or "Tyrannicus," in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 75, No 2 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"The Meanjin winter issue takes on the culture wars. It's an essential primer in this election season written by Melbourne academic Mark Davis, the man who brought you Gangland, the book that revealed the baby boomer cultural monopoly. Now Davis turns his attention to the shady world of cultural politic ...Show more