Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
Category: Politics
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
Category: Politics
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
Category: Politics
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
Gonzo Capitalism: How to Get Ahead in an Economy that Hates You by Chris Guillebeau
Category: Politics
<b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The $100 Start-up</i>, comes a captivating guide that explains how to thrive in today's turbulent global economy.</b> Burdened with massive debt, stagnant wages and the ever-rising cost of living, a growing nu ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
Category: Politics
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
Category: Politics
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
Category: Politics
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Category: Politics
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
Category: Politics
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
Democracy! A Positive Primer on People Power. Discover What Defines a Democracy and Why Your Voice Matters by Philip Bunting
Category: Politics
What you say (and how you say it) has the power to change the world. Democracy gives you that power. Democracy is people power. But does democracy really matter? How does it work? And what exactly is democracy, anyway?! Get set to speak up and learn how you can create positive change in your corner of t ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
Category: Politics
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitzer ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
Category: Politics
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more