Outsiders by Mark Latham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Mark Latham is the original Outsider, a politician who rose to the very top of his profession but refused to be cowed by political correctness and refused to bend his knee to the leftist fads of the day. Outsiders is a thoughtfully curated collection of Mark's previously-published articles and thoughts ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elite's Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have p ...Show more
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Since the days of Adam Smith, economists have grappled with a series of familiar problems - but often their ideas are hard to digest, even before we try to apply them to today's issues. Linda Yueh is renowned for her combination of erudition, as an accomplished economist herself, and accessibility, as a ...Show more
Nothing But a Circus by Daniel Levin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketches of some of ...Show more
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
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Category: Current Affairs
"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll ...Show more
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
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Category: Current Affairs
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate tha ...Show more
Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
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Category: Current Affairs
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
The Man with the Poison Gun : A Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he had singlehandedly tracked down and killed the enemies of the communist regime. His weapon was a specially designed secret: it killed without leaving any trac ...Show more
Singapore's Education System: A reputation deserved or fabricated? by Rodney King
$44.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
$43.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Sacred to Secular by Brian R Morris
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Sacred to Secular is a rational call for Australia to adopt the successful Scandinavian model and become a 'fully secular' nation that is religion-neutral. It is also an incisive analysis of Christianity -- its origins, how it remains embedded in society, and the harm it continues to inflict. It exposes ...Show more
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Solidarity and prosperity fostered by economic integration: this principle has underpinned the European project from the start, and the establishment of a common currency was supposed to be its most audacious and tangible achievement. Since 2008, however, the European Union has ricocheted between stagna ...Show more