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Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung...
A Discourse on Inequality
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...
Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies....
Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources
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Author: Norman Pearlstine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 318 Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of...
The Tyranny of Merit: Why the Promise of Moving Up Is Pulling America Apart
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Author: Michael J Sandel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 A world-famous political philosopher, and the bestselling author of Justice, reveals the driving force behind the resurgence of populism: the...
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy
Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With new, updated material, P. J. O'Rourke covers the whole election process from the pig pile of presidential...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
Author: Thomas Mayo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for...
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series...
Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
Author: William M. Arkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 UNMANNED is an in-depth examination of why seemingly successful wars never seem to end. The problem centres on drones, now...
Seneca: A Life
Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
Author: John Pomfret Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War,...
The Death of Democracy
Author: Benjamin Carter Hett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of...
Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Author: James Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's...
Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Corrado Vivanti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thought This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Author: Alberto Alemanno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Author: Steve Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like...
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
Author: Roger Bootle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A well-researched, enjoyable and thoughtful book'. - Calum Chace, Forbes Extraordinary innovations in technology promise to transform the world, but how...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
American Scoundrel
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Wild Swans
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money
Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
Author: Iain Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...
The Prince: Popular Penguins
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 110 As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall....
Soldier Spy
Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
Rights of Man
Author: Thomas Paine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication...
Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop
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Beazley a Biography
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Lucia in the Age of Napoleon
Author: Andrea di Robilant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught...
This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future
Author: Benjamin T. Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From the colourful characters of the early Australian republican movement to the failed referendum of 1999, This Time...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
Dark Victory: The Military Campaign to Re-Elect the Prime Minister
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More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine
Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
Author: James Kitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to...
The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society
Author: Matthew Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led...
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation
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Samuel Pepys: A Life
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Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
Committed Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...