Readings Recommends: Politics
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries Of Financial Folly
$31.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Architectural Press
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is di... Buy or find out more →
Life Without Money: Building Fair And Sustainable Economies
$39.95 – Paperback book / Pluto Press
The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism's ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by busines... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 44: Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words: “The world is split between those who want to save the p... Buy or find out more →
Garnaut Review 2011: Australia In The Global Response To Climate Change
$39.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
In this update to the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review, Ross Garnaut re-examines the case for action in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and recent developments by major countries to reduce emissions and pr... Buy or find out more →
Looking For The Light On The Hill: Modern Labor's Challenges
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Today, the Australian Labor Party is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of th... Buy or find out more →
Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP’s federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Si... Buy or find out more →
The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck And Could Now Throw It All Away
$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
This book will change the way you think about your country…
Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free – and the only developed nation to have avoided a r... Buy or find out more →
After Words: Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
$59.99$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin
A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian ... Buy or find out more →
Waltzing At The Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
'Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.'
In 2004, at... Buy or find out more →
Keynes/Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed eighty years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.
As the stock-market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged wit... Buy or find out more →
Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis And What To Do About It
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
‘A wonderfully readable, lucid account of the treatment of refugees in modern western democracies. Lamey writes superbly. Taking Hannah Arendt’s philosophy as its gravitational centre, it draws the reader to the inescapa... Buy or find out more →
Boomerang
$39.95 – Hard back / Penguin Group Uk
Iceland, Greece and Ireland we know about. On Spain, Portugal and Italy we've heard the warnings. Britain is a fear rumbling in the distant background of precarious triple-A ratings. But surely Germany is safe. Isn't it?... Buy or find out more →
Where China Meets India: Burma And The New Crossroads Of Asia
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Faber
Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.
From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off f... Buy or find out more →
Just The Arguments: 100 Of The Most Important Arguments In Western Philosophy
$29.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument.
Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting... Buy or find out more →
Grand Pursuit: A Story Of Economic Genius
$59.99$49.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing it... Buy or find out more →
Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
$32.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
The end of the Cold War was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over communism. In Maonomics, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capital... Buy or find out more →
The Lies Of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest For Power
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
This is the first full-scale, in-depth political biography of America’s most polarising figure.
Based on more than two hundred interviews — many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin... Buy or find out more →
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent — she is candid, self-deprecating, and funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concern... Buy or find out more →
The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies For A World Turned Upside Down
$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Practical advice for navigating the tough financial times ahead.
In his most recent bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent Jr. predicted the US debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of its governm... Buy or find out more →
Adapt
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown
Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harfo... Buy or find out more →
An Unwinnable War: Australia In Afghanistan
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
A decade on from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Australians are embroiled in the nation's longest military conflict - the war in Afghanistan.
An Unwinnable War charts the motives, ambitions and negotiat... Buy or find out more →
Pakistan: A Hard Country
$65.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
In the past decade Pakistan has emerged as a country of immense importance. Large, heavily populated, strategically placed between Iran, Afghanistan and India, Pakistan has since its creation just over sixty years ago be... Buy or find out more →
Bargaining With The Devil: When To Negotiate When To Fight
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
In an age of terror, national leaders face this sort of question every day. Should we negotiate with the Taliban? Iran? North Korea? What about terrorist groups holding hostages? In private disputes, you may face devils ... Buy or find out more →
The Honoured Dead: A Story Of Friendship, Murder And The Underbelly Of The Arab World
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Here is a remarkable story of how the Arab Islamic world is being transformed, one life at a time.
Joseph Braude, the first Western journalist ever to be embedded within an Arab security force, is assigned to a hardened ... Buy or find out more →
Deadly Waters: Inside The Hidden World Of Somali Pirates
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, ha... Buy or find out more →
Inside Al-Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11
$39.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave
President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leader... Buy or find out more →
Conversations With Power: What The Greatest Presidents And Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About Leadership
$24.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave
Fresh out of college and just beginning his work as a syndicated columnist and a researcher at the New America Foundation, Brian Till set out to interview the former world leaders he most admired. He hardly expected to g... Buy or find out more →
Infernal Triangle
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Writing on recent events in the Middle East from Australia's best known foreign correspondent - including the devastating Gaza Flotilla incident.
It's been ten years since Al-Qaeda demolished the World Trade Center in Ne... Buy or find out more →
Why Marx Was Right
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
A lively defense of Karl Marx's ideas attempts to reassert their relevancy for a world in the throes of global financial instability. Taking issue with what he sees as the 10 most common criticisms of Marxism, literary a... Buy or find out more →
Indignez-Vous
$9.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Proving that age is no boundary to publishing success, the French book world has been taken by storm by a surprise Christmas bestseller: a political call to arms by Stéphane Hessel, 93.
The unlikely publishing sensation... Buy or find out more →
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
$35.00 – Paperback book / Orion
The stunning first look inside America's most top secret military facility - that doesn't officially exist.
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth ab... Buy or find out more →
Feeling The Heat
$36.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
In Feeling the Heat, journalist Jo Chandler sets out on a quest that takes her across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. Her mission is to explore one of the d... Buy or find out more →
Merchants Of Doubt
$26.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a political and economic agenda.
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in resea... Buy or find out more →
Wikileaks And The Age Of Transparency
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The United States government is diligent — some might say to the point of obsession — in defending its borders against invaders. Now we are told that a small, international band of renegades, armed with nothing more than... Buy or find out more →
The Origins Of Political Order
$51.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Strauss Girou
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. ... Buy or find out more →
Islamic Activists: The Anti-Enlightenment Democrats
$39.95 – Paperback book / Pluto Press
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* Deina Ali Abdelkader
* ISBN: 9780745322162
* Extent: 168pp
* Release Date: 04 Mar 2011
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The No-Nonsense Guide To Climate Change
$17.95 – Paperback book / New Internationalist
Just as the need for action on climate change becomes more urgent and overwhelming, the campaign to deny that humans are causing it has gained more traction. This completely new book meets the sceptics head on, offering ... Buy or find out more →
The No-Nonsense Guide To Global Surveillance
$17.95 – Paperback book / New Internationalist
In the world of CCTV, email and DNA, this book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all.
Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA and MI5, has become part of everyday life. Governments routinely trawl ou... Buy or find out more →
Power And Terror: Conflict, Hegemony And The Rule Of Force
$24.95 – Paperback book / Pluto Press
This updated and significantly revised edition explores the dynamics of power relationships and international negotiations and the use of terror between the United States and Western countries and the nations of the Midd... Buy or find out more →
State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet
$27.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton
From the Worldwatch Institute, the premier environmental nonprofit, an incisive account of the global food crisis—and how it can be solved.
Known for tackling the most pressing issues that face our world, the Worldwatc... Buy or find out more →
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics For A Finite Planet
$23.00 – Paperback book / Earthscan Pubn
"Prosperity without Growth" challenges the embedded, unquestioned assumptions of the global policy of growth and shows that it is necessary-and possible-to have increased and widespread prosperity without economic growth... Buy or find out more →
The Great Disruption: How The Climate Crisis Will Bring On The Sustainable Revolution
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Human civilisation and the economy have now grown so large that we have passed the limits of the planet to support any further growth in the current model. The science is clear. We have entered a period of great crisis a... Buy or find out more →
Divided Self Israel And The Jewish Psyche Today
$31.00 – Paperback book / I B Tauris
How should Jews respond to an age of militant Zionism and resurgent anti-Semitism? Is insisting on a separate sense of identity anachronistic and dangerous, or is it the only way of preserving the Jewish cultural heritag... Buy or find out more →
Great Crises Of Capitalism
$29.95 – Paperback book / Connor Court
The financial world is experiencing increasing financial volatility with far more frequent financial booms and busts. Dr Peter Jonson is a former Chief Economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and a lifelong economic t... Buy or find out more →
Superfreakonomics
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. The result is... Buy or find out more →
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean And The Battle For Supremacy In The 21st Century
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
For much of the twentieth century, Europe dominated global attention. Two world wars were won and lost onits battle fields, and the great ideological struggles of the Cold War were played out in its cities. The Atlantic ... Buy or find out more →
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids And The Long Con That Is Breaking America
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Beneath America's outer appearance of sanity and democracy, there is a machine devoted to pure theft and political despotism. The mechanism is huge and bizarrely complex — layers of government and bureaucracy, impenetrab... Buy or find out more →
India: A Portrait
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of ... Buy or find out more →
No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking The Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement
$39.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
At a time when the global financial crisis has exposed deep flaws in the global free market, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Chile, Peru and Vietnam are negotiating a free-trade agreement to surpass all others. J... Buy or find out more →
Iran: The Looming Crisis
$26.99 – Paperback book / Profile
Revised and updated edition of Emanuele Ottolenghi's Under A Mushroom Cloud.
In August 2002, the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed in Washington to a stunned world how advanced Iran's nuclear pro... Buy or find out more →
Drowning In Oil: BP And The Reckless Pursuit Of Profit
$37.95 – Hardcover book / Mcgraw Hill
Drawing on original, never-before-published interviews with BP executives, environmental experts, and oil industry insiders, The award-winning Houston Chronicle journalist Loren Steffy delivers an authoritative and hard-... Buy or find out more →
Zero-Sum World: Politics And Power After The Crash
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
This landmark first book shows that the international political system is entering a period of dangerous instability and crisis.
The economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has drastically altered the logic of inte... Buy or find out more →
Real World Of Democratic Theory
$36.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of f... Buy or find out more →
Political Awakenings Conversations With History
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle's newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rig... Buy or find out more →
Unfinished Global Revolution The Limits Of Nations And The Pursuit Of A New Politics
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
The current Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and ex Deputy Secretary-General of the UN writes an intimate portrait of the politicians he has watched and advised, including Kofi Annan, Tony Blair, ... Buy or find out more →
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth Of A New Economy
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
'The global financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 ruined businesses and banks, individuals and even nations, and seemed to land a mortal blow to the capitalist system. But capitalism has not been destroyed, rather it has been... Buy or find out more →
From Dictatorship To Democracy: A Conceptual Framework For Liberation (4th Edition)
$15.00 – Paperback book / Melbourne University Bookshop
In recent years various dictatorships of both internal and external origin have collapsed or stumbled when confronted by defiant, mobilized people. Often seen as firmly entrenched and impregnable, some of these dictators... Buy or find out more →
How Australia Decides: Election Reporting And The Media
$49.95 – Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres
In recent years, the Australian media have come under fire for their reporting of politics and election campaigns. Political reporting is said to be too influenced by commercial concerns, too obsessed with gossip and sca... Buy or find out more →
How To Change The World, Tales Of Marx And Marxism
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Little Brown
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of com... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era
$0.00 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents?
The Hawke,... Buy or find out more →
Australian Prime Ministers
$39.95 – Hardcover book / New Holland Pub
Larrikins or patricians, socialists or silvertails - in the century following Federation, Australia's prime ministers were as diverse as the nation they served. Some came from backgrounds of rural or urban poverty and we... Buy or find out more →