Deadly Earth by Katie McGrath
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
"For the second time in my life, I was faced with a pivotal choice: either be pulled down by the quicksand of self-doubt, anguish and despair; or find strength to help others because of my own trauma." Katie McGrath's first three years of life were idyllic, surrounded by love and family in the affluent ...Show more
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (PB) by Anne Case; Angus Deaton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
New York Times BestsellerWall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working classLife expectancy in the United States has recently ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
$44.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...Show more
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his redneck roots: 'the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks'. But he soon realised that these were the very people who had carried George W. Bush to victory. ...Show more
Defending Australia: Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 4 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The fourth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the challenge of defending Australia at a time of regional uncertainty and fast-changing military technology. It explores the nation's main vulnerabilities and the capabilities needed to secure against them, including the consequences of a nuclear ...Show more
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull of Putin and Xi it seems that democracy is in a state of decay. And as governments around the world struggle to combat the coronavirus - often adopting draconian measures as a response - there is a sense, a panic, that democracy's ...Show more
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
After the shock of Trump, the acrimony of Brexit, and the continued pull of Putin and Xi, it seems that democracy is in a state of decay. And as governments around the world struggle to combat the coronavirus - often adopting draconian measures as a response - there is a sense, a panic, that democracy's ...Show more
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book" " A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic"This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take ...Show more
Democracy on Leave - How Dark Money, Lobbying and Data Are Destroying British Politics by Peter Geoghegan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'If you're concerned about the health of British democracy, read this book - it is thorough, gripping and vitally important' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland. Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. Politicians lie gleefully, making wild cl ...Show more
Democracy on the Road by Ruchir Sharma
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
For two decades bestselling author Ruchir Sharma has chased election campaigns across every major state in India, travelling the equivalent of a lap around the Earth. Democracy in India takes readers on a rollicking ride with Ruchir and his band of highly-informed fellow writers as they talk to farmers, ...Show more
Democracy on the Road by Ruchir Sharma
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
India is a country obsessed by politics. In early 2019, it faces national elections, and urgent questions present themselves: will India continue down a path of populism and increasingly strident Hindu nationalism or will it return to its postcolonial secular vision? Is the long-promised economic boom f ...Show more
Depends What You Mean by Extremist - Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more