True Blue: Strange Tales from a Tory Nation by Chris Horrie
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political
Whatever happened to middle England? Two of our funniest writers set out on a journey through conservative country - with hilarious results. The Women's Institute. Polo matches. The Duke of Edinburgh. Nimbys, shooting and game fairs. Pall Mall clubs, the Countryside Alliance and Boris Johnson. Hampshir ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by Peter Canellos
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have p ...Show more
The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ide ...Show more
Bean's Gallipoli - The Diaries of Australia's Official War Correspondent by Kevin Fewster (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
Probably no person saw more of the Anzacs in battle on Gallipoli than C.E.W. Bean. After sailing with the first convoy, he landed with them on that fateful first morning of April 25, 1915, and remained until the evacuation. His diary overflows with powerful descriptions of battle and touching eulogies t ...Show more
Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political
There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists. At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, children are starving to death. Are we not being ge ...Show more
Bills of Rights in Australia by BYRNES Andrew
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political
Arguments about the need for a bill of rights in Australia have simmered. While attempts to introduce a national bill of rights have failed, the states and territories have taken on a pioneering role with statutory bills. This title examines the arguments for and against greater protection of human righ ...Show more
On the State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution by Alaa Al Aswany
$24.95 AUD
Category: Political
In the novels and short stories of Alaa Al Aswany, characters struggle with class differences, police brutality, poverty, sexual harassment and political corruption; now, in a new collection of essays, Al Aswany considers these same issues that torment modern Egyptian society. He has a great deal to say ...Show more
The Ogre of Oglefort by Eva Ibbotson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Political
When a Hag, an orphan boy called Ivo, Ulf the troll and wizard Brian Brainsweller are sent to rescue a princess from an ogre, they briefly consider running away and hiding. Can they be any match for the gruesome, terrifying, ghastly, flesh-eating Ogre of Oglefort? But not all is as it first appears - th ...Show more
Against Remembrance by David Rieff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political
In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hat ...Show more
Notebooks by Betty Churcher
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained artist, Betty's sketches reveal the secrets within the artworks and the processes of their creation. ...Show more