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The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush's Post-Presidency
As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW...
Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump
How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect our country from a man who lies, who obstructs justice, and who seeks to cheat with foreign powers to...
Dead Man Walking: The murky world of Michael McGurk and Ron Medich
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An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith...
You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke Gnostic Left
Our country doesn't have a partisan problem, a political problem, a social problem, or an economic problem. We have a spiritual problem. What in the world is happening? To many...
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2023 "One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date." - The Washington Post An illuminating and "wholly refreshing"...
America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America's most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's...
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
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Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life
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Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye to contemporary issues and probing the psychology of our prime ministers. Her...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of
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An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...
Politics On the Edge
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A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a...
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
A world-leading expert in inequality makes the case for a hard limit on personal wealth We all notice when the poor get poorer- when there are more rough sleepers and...
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
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The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat...
Guerrilla Warfare
The revolutionary Che Guevara's guide to guerrilla war First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. Che considered that the Cuban...
The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death- the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
How the World Works
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideas With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into...
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism
Two of the UK's leading economists call time on selfishness as the engine of prosperity The idea that people are basically driven by individualism and economic incentives, and that prosperity...
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to...
The Discourses
Penguin Classics relaunch Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness...
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
A major new assessment of one of the most controversial topics in history The Bible observes that God made humanity 'for a while a little lower than the angels'. If...
Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political
A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of eighteenth century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the...
This Land: The Struggle for the Left
#1 Bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain - goes next We live in an age of upheaval....
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of
A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been...
Democracy Rules
One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. \"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
History of the Russian Revolution
'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King
An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the...
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather, the bestselling, Costa prize-winning author of The Volunteer (over 100k TCM)...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than
One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity One of our most beloved...
What's the Big Idea?: 30 Years of the Australia Institute
Leading thinkers from Australia and around the world outline how we can make change for the better The Australia Institute has spent the last 30 years producing research that matters,...
Great Game On: The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy
Great Game On is the story of the remaking of the world order. Historically, China has sought its security by building dominant relationships with pliant states that accept its pre-eminence....
Leviathan
One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma...
Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap
What would equality look like when it comes to gender and work? An updated edition of Annabel Crabb's acclaimed Quarterly Essay. When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
$26.99 AUD
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular...
How Migration Really Works: 22 things you need to know about the most
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Authoritative and myth-busting, this is the one book you need to read to understand why we've been wrong about migration Global migration is not at an all-time high. The climate...
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?
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The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us,...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
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The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in...
The Communist Manifesto
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The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition. A rousing call to arms whose influence is still...
The Prince
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Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince is the Bible of realpolitik,...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
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The riveting and definitive biography of the Islamic world's most famous military hero 'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining... One of the outstanding books of the year' The Times An epic...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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A controversial, timely intervention in world affairs from one of the most acclaimed historians of the twentieth century **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A sort of survival book, a sort of...
Munich
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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AN OFFICER AND A SPY AND THE SECOND SLEEP 'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of
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A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping story of sisterhood, revolution and betrayal, and three women who helped...