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How has Australian political life become so personal, emotional and autobiographical? In Performance Politics , historian and speechwriter Joshua Black provides an eye-opening account of how Australian politicians have become...

THE TWILIGHT BEFORE THE STORM EXAMINES WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING HUMANITY: HOW CAN WE AVOID A WORLD ON FIRE? The next decade promises to be the...

The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of...

Before Dwight Eisenhower became president of the United States, he had a brilliant and successful career in the military. John Wukovits reveals Eisenhower's contributions to American warfare, including his advocacy...

This book presents a geographical analysis of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union since 1991.

When the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ranges. Year round, lost spirits wander this tiny port town on the northern...

Who advises politicians about the issues that impact our daily lives, and how has their advice changed over time? In Australia Fair? authors James Walter and Carolyn Holbrook explore the...

'First there was Fire and Fury , then there was Siege , now there is Landslide . The third is the best of the three' Guardian 'Cruel, unforgiving, muckracking, scandalous...

The book titled Russia: Dispatches from the "Guardian's" Correspondent in Moscow by the author Martin Walker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees...

"NATIONAL BESTSELLER" A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. The...

The bestselling, no-holds-barred expose of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran...

The book titled The Autobiography by the author Benvenuto Cellini. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Written by a former Irish cabinet minister, this book presents a detailed contemporary portrait of where power and authority lie in the country. Section headings include: politics, government, industry, money,...

In this compulsively readable book John Button reflects on the patterns in his life, from growing up in his father's house in Ballarat to his days as a Cabinet Minister...

One of the finest essayists of all time with an essential collection of essays looking at our times. Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift...

Two years after the Arab Spring had transformed Egypt from a dictatorship under Hosni Mubarak to a democracy under the Muslim Brotherhood, there was a military coup that saw the...

As the violence of the Middle East has come to America with the September 11 2001 bombings, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new form of mayhem that...

Napoleon may have caused more men's deaths than any martial leader before him. Indeed, "the paths of glory Napoleon trod," biographer Timothy Wilson-Smith estimates in his introduction, "led possibly one...

Over the past decade, psychoanalysis has been a focus of continuing controversy for feminism, and at the centre of debates in the humanities about how we read literature and culture....

The book titled After the Last Sky by the author Edward W. Said. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Until recently, the study of the Middle East has focused almost exclusively on Islam and on the regime, especially on its non-democratic aspects. It has done so at the expense...

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book...

A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. With the passage of time, their fascination has grown: for...

Instant New York Times Bestseller A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer...

It created a worldwide furore when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. After all, Ramadan is one of the Muslim...

LATHAM AND ABBOTT- The lives and rivalry of the two finest politicians of their generation One was rich and one was poor. They came from vastly different sides of the...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works--and really doesn't--in A Fighting Chance As...

Author of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced...

The essays in From Oslo to Iraq: And the Roadmap were written between the end of 2000 and early 2003. They offer Edward Said's commentary on the deepening crisis in...

Crisis and Change Today provides a solid introduction to Marxist social theory. The work's unique voice is expressed in its Socratic-dialogic approach, structured around forty questions that students have about...

"Required reading for all interested in the present precarious situation." - North & South

The book titled Mussolini by the author Denis Mack Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

New edition, new introduction Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party. New introduction on why good policy matters and why books debating big policy...

How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their wealth has exposed them? What are...

From longtime "New York Times" columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way Inhis eighteen years as...

"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World , every seat is a good one." --Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post " The Free World sparkles....

One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991-along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this...

The book titled The Sixth Continent: Russia and Mikhail Gorbachev by the author Mark Frankland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor "The Prince" even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what...

After 1944, Hitler's notorious book was not widely available until the hardback edition of this version appeared in 1969. This paperback edition is intended primarily for students of 20th century...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Great playwright and filmmaker, DAVID MAMET, just wrote an incredible new book, The Disenlightenment, Politics, Horror, and Entertainment . David is a special man...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to...

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and...

Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less...

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...

Governments throughout Australia have been confronted with a daunting array of problems in the 1980s and 1990s. These include severe constraints on public enterprise, a crisis in the state banking...

'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man' - Graham Farmelo, award-winning author of The Strangest Man...