October 2008 Politics
Behind The Exclusive Brethren: Politics Persuasion And Persecution
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conse... More »
A Question Of Power: The Geoff Clark Case
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
A gripping courtroom drama and a fearless work of investigative journalism, A Question of Power is the story of a man who spent his life gaining power only to be accused of its ultimate abuse.
Geoff Clark was once the mo... More »
Human Rights Overboard
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a ... More »
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees And The Stories They Told Me
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their ... More »
Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia
$34.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so i... More »
The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
$49.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
The War Within takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemp... More »
The Blogging Revolution
$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In many countries, internet censorship has become one of the key human rights issues of the twenty-first century.
Best-selling author Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is threat... More »
Way Of The World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster )
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the #1 bestselling author of "The Price of Loyalty" and "The One Percent Doctrine" returns with an explosive election year account of the looming national security crisis that Amer... More »
Creative Capitalism
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Simon & Schuster )
Michael Kinsley takes up that challenge, explaining that many of the world’s economic problems are too big to be solved through private philanthropy and the solution is free market capitalism or Creative Capitalism.
An... More »