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China: Alive In The Bitter Sea
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; faded spine; creased cornersBehind the bamboo curtain, a nation of one billion souls struggles beneath the weight...
Up from the Mission: Selected Writings
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia's most...
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to
In The Origins of Political Order , Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in...
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration...
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do
"Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online platforms, from exciting novelty to everyday essential, to what we have today. "Enshittification" has been word of the year in...
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict...
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as...
Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback
No one understands the "Make America Great Again" effort with more insight and more experience than former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich helped President Ronald Reagan "Make America...
Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing
After a summer of violent protests in 2020-sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks-a dangerously false narrative gained mainstream acceptance: Criminal justice in the United...
The HAWK Air Defense Missile System
The first history of the legendary US Army's HAWK missile system, the world's first mobile air-defense missile system, which saw service and combat around the world. Designed to counteract the...
Liberal Fascisms
With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is...
To Firmer Ground: Restoring Hope in Australia
In recent decades the quality of both personal and public life in Australia has been undermined by preoccupation with material prosperity and neglect of broader concerns. To Firmer Ground proposes...
Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East
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The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States - former fast friends. Despite the US's relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a...
Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
The revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West - from an internationally recognised extremism expert...
Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip
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The official companion book to the brand new HBO(r) documentary In the HBO(r) documentary tentatively titled "Citizen USA," acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi sets out on a road trip across America...
In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of American
To get at the political roots of American economic decline, this treatise puts the disciplined thinking of political philosophy, comparative politics and international political economy to use in analyzing the...
Who Rules the World?
The most influential political writer alive today presents a state-of-the-world look at America's global power and politics 'As long as the general population is diverted to consumerism or hatred of...
How to Moot: A Student Guide to Mooting
How to Moot is essential reading for student mooters at all levels. Written by lecturers with many years' experience of supporting students and judging at internal and national mooting competitions,...
The Sword of Freedom: Israel, Mossad, and the Secret War
Israel has always won. They are winning now. And they must always win in the future. In The Sword of Freedom , former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pulls back the...
When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, from
"[A] deeply researched, keenly analytical, and frequently provocative chronicle of this singular judicial entity. . . . A senior legal analyst for CNN and former assistant U.S. attorney, Honig is...
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
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New York Times Bestseller Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States --...
How to Defeat the Far Right: Lessons From Hope Not Hate
'A brilliant and challenging book' GORDON BROWN From the founder of Britain's leading antifascist organisation, HOPE not hate, this is an urgent call to resist the forces of extremism on...
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
Can Feminism be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question
What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens and feminism through an African one? And what does it mean to centre selfhood in this journey? In this shining,...
The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and
In his late writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the...
A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion
Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation....
The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy
"The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled...
The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right....
Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush
Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew , Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from...
The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle
'If you had assumed you knew everything about these two men of destiny, Richard Vinen's shrewd, provocative book will make you think again' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF...
Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN 'A...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
For the Good of the World: Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our...
Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Our Selves and the
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...
The Education of an Idealist
'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE...
The Greens
The book titled The Greens by the author Bob Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy,...
Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people...
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia
Reveals a riveting portrait of a nation mired in complexities. In recent years Saudi Arabia has promoted itself as an open country: oil-rich but investing in culture, tourism, social innovation,...
Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia
Reveals a riveting portrait of a nation mired in complexities. In recent years Saudi Arabia has promoted itself as an open country: oil-rich but investing in culture, tourism, social innovation,...
Off The Rails: The Inside Story of HS2
'High Speed 2' was to be the crown jewel of British rail Bringing the antiquated and unreliable north-west line up to date, it would connect central London with Manchester and...
Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American
Fascism or Genocide is New York Times Magazine writer Ross Barkan's sweeping report on the 2024 US election and the decade of political upheaval that led up to it. From...
Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
In summer 2024, France stood on the brink of a far-right takeover. But the disaster was avoided thanks to a New Popular Front of parties headed by long-standing left-wing leader...
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil
Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedlander began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country...
Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster
In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a "biocommunism" - will enable us to move...
Anthropocene Communism: Land and Capital in the Age of Disaster
In the age of climate change, is the communist hypothesis still relevant? Only a renewed communism, a communism for life - or a "biocommunism" - will enable us to move...
A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight
According to one wag, war 'died in Hiroshima' more than half a century ago. And yet it has never gone away. Terrorist acts, Israeli-Palestinian and Middle Eastern conflicts, the implosion...