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War on Peace

24 Apr 2018

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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of glob...

On Grand Strategy

03 Apr 2018

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John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of The Cold War , ha...

Fire and Fury

05 Jan 2018

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SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordina...

Too Bold to Die: The Making of Australian War Heroes

01 Sep 2013

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An unputdownable account of the courage and bravery under fire of our Australian soldier...

Russian Roulette

13 Mar 2018

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy...

The Looming Tower

27 Nov 2014

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THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive ...

Troll Nation

24 Apr 2018

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“Amanda Marcotte drains the swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters ...

Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

09 Apr 2018

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Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a 'poorly imagined country'. Indeed, Pakistan ...

What the Trump?!

16 Feb 2017

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There is no getting away from it – the undisputed king of the comb-over Donald J. Trum...

The Road to Ruin

07 Mar 2016

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WINNER OF THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR...

The Stalking of Julia Gillard

01 Jul 2013

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'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I t...

Mein Kampf

03 Jan 2013

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Mein Kampf  written by Adolf Hitler is known as one of the most dangerous books in ...

Long Walk To Freedom

25 Apr 2013

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2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines t...

Red Notice

05 Feb 2015

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I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime wi...

Flash Boys

31 Mar 2014

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The Times, Observer, Financial Times, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement Books ...

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1

17 Dec 2009

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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WAL...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

22 Feb 2012

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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction t...

Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal

01 Sep 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has...

Half the Sky

05 Aug 2010

Public Administration

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl W...

The Amazing SAS: The Inside Story of Australia's Special Forces

01 Jan 2010

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Who Dares Wins... For the soldiers and officers of Australia's Special Air Service (SAS)...

The Australian Disease

23 Sep 2015

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Richard Flanagan’s closing address to the 2011 Melbourne Writers’ Festival struck a ...

Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea

01 May 2013

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WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by Ge...

The Australian Moment

22 Feb 2012

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'Likely to become the essential short work on modern Australia' Don Watson '...

How to Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

12 May 2017

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Have you ever wanted to read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and re...

Triumph and Demise

21 Aug 2014

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Drawing on more than sixty on-the-record interviews with all the major players, Triumph ...

He Who Must Be Obeid

01 Aug 2014

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Queensland had the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the Moonlight State. New South Wales has Eddie...

Credlin & Co.

01 Feb 2016

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Credlin was Abbott’s enforcer, his disciplinarian, his counsellor, his brain, his moth...

This Changes Everything

16 Sep 2014

Public Administration

Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo ...

Australian Politics For Dummies

20 Aug 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

Created especially for the Australian customer! Understand the Australian political syst...

Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations

04 Jun 2012

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Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and poli...

Mighty Be Their Powers

01 Oct 2011

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How sisterhood, prayer and sex changed a nation at war. Defy a dictator. Unite your peop...

The Truth About Conspiracy Theories

20 Jul 2011

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Are Conspiracy Theories intrinsically absurd? Why do some people believe in them while o...

Without You, There Is No Us

04 Dec 2014

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It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, ...

Keating

21 Oct 2015

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Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of...

The Monarchy

29 May 2012

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'Why, when the subject of royalty or monarchy is mentioned, do the British bid adieu to ...

Soldiers Without Borders

01 Aug 2010

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Brothers-in-arms - SAS bonds can never be broken 'Jones knew the score with "deniable" o...

Dog Days

15 Nov 2013

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A blueprint for the nation after the boom. Australians have just lived through a period ...

The Future

29 Jan 2013

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In The Future , former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and eco...

Air Force

08 Aug 2011

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A compelling insider's view of the modern RAAF. AIR FORCE tells the action-packed, insid...

Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2

17 Dec 2009

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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WAL...

Blood Year

15 Feb 2016

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We’re now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, ...

The Obama File

09 Nov 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

It soon became apparent that Barack Obama could not live up to his press. In "The Obama ...

Das Kapital (Capital)

31 Oct 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling  Das Kapital (Capital, in the English...

Battleground

18 Nov 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Tony Abbott came to office lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since W...

Twelve Years a Slave

27 Oct 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in ...

Game Of Mates

05 Apr 2017

Public Administration

James is our most mundane villain. His victim is Bruce, our typical Aussie, who bleeds f...

Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet

08 Mar 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

<p>With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark ...

Battlers and Billionaires

26 Jun 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

‘This is required reading for every Australian who seriously cares about the fair go e...

Freedom Ain't Free

31 May 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

Freedom Ain’t Free goes beyond the partisan rhetoric of the day to explain how our cur...

Quarterly Essay 65 The White Queen

27 Mar 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s brand of the politics ...

The Killing Season Uncut

18 Apr 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with...

Quarterly Essay 34 Stop At Nothing

01 Jun 2009

Politics & Current Affairs

What does Malcolm Turnbull stand for? In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb tells the story o...

Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World

14 Nov 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering ...

How the World Works

03 May 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else ca...

Triumph and Demise

22 Oct 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

Featuring a new introduction in response to Julia Gillard's memoir, this revised edition...

Anzac's Long Shadow

11 Feb 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

‘A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military o...

Political Animal

19 Mar 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book – and a cruci...

Quarterly Essay 60 Political Amnesia

19 Nov 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malc...

See No Evil

30 Sep 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field ...

Rudd, Gillard and Beyond: Penguin Special

30 Apr 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

The controversial legacy of the Rudd-Gillard governments, along with Labor's 2013 electi...

Downfall: How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart

12 Jun 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

How Labor lost the race - how Bill Shorten could save the party - and why it matters. In...

Quarterly Essay 61 Balancing Act

11 Mar 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled ...

Inglorious Empire

31 Jul 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India — from the arrival of t...

The Euro

16 Aug 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author Joseph Sitglitz, author of Gl...

The Prince

01 Jan 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. Thi...

The Good Fight

19 Aug 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

Praise for Swan's handling of the economy 'One of the most impressive economic policies ...

The Ellis Laws

07 Nov 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

In these witty, outrageous ten laws, the well-beloved gadfly, sage and wordsmith Bob Ell...

Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within

29 Aug 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

In Enemy Within , Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United Stat...

Windsor's Way

01 Apr 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Born and bred in north-west New South Wales, Tony has held the balance of power in state...

The Road to Ruin

15 Nov 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

The New York Times bestseller that reveals how investors can prepare for the next financ...

A Thousand Lies: Lies Every Good American Must Believe

15 Dec 2009

Politics & Current Affairs

These are a few of the lies we must believe if America’s political system, culture and...

Rise of ISIS

15 Sep 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISIS Jay Sekulow, one of America’s most influential attorneys, ...

On Tyranny

02 Mar 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thi...

Inside the Hawke–Keating Government

01 Sep 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

As good as it gets in Australian politics. That's how the Hawke–Keating Government is ...

A Very English Scandal

05 May 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind...

World Order

09 Sep 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

As Henry Kissinger observes in this magisterial book, there has never been a true world ...

From Dictatorship to Democracy

07 Jul 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

From Dictatorship to Democracy was a pamphlet, printed and distributed by Dr Gene Sharp ...

Remarkable Times

29 Oct 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

A record of the most turbulent political times – told by Australia's most trusted poli...

Quarterly Essay 38 Power Trip

01 Jun 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

Winner of the 2010 Walkley Award for Magazine Feature Writing Power Trip shows the makin...

Quarterly Essay 54 Dragon's Tail

21 Jun 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

In Dragon’s Tail , Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and conside...

Das Kapital

02 Jun 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Das Kapital (Capital) by Karl Marx is a critical analysis of capitalism as a political e...

Dirty Wars

09 May 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, J...

Stop Fixing Women

01 Apr 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men’s seemingly never-ending...

Mein Kampf

07 Jul 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Mein Kampf written by Adolf Hitler is known as one of the most dangerous books in h...

One Child

22 Feb 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Since 1979, China's one-child policy has exercised unprecedented control over the reprod...

I Shall Not Hate

07 Feb 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspi...

The Dismissal

04 Nov 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

There is no more dramatic event in our political history than the dismissal.� This boo...

No Place to Hide

13 May 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

THE INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS DOCUMENTED IN LAURA POITRAS'S CITIZENFOUR Glenn Greenwa...

The Third Industrial Revolution

04 Oct 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a da...

What a Time to Be Alive

29 Aug 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

What a time to be alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-san...

ISIS

12 Mar 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the internation...

Quarterly Essay 68 Without America

25 Nov 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does th...

Dark Money

24 Feb 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desper...

The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo: Penguin Special

26 Oct 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

When news of the murder trial of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Xilai's wife reache...

Too Much Luck

02 Aug 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

‘We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck – too much ...

Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling

14 Mar 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott’s signature promises: t...

On Liberty

03 Dec 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service....

Has the West Lost It?

05 Apr 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with ...

Once Upon a Time in Russia

04 Jun 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

A gripping and shocking insight into the lives of Russia’s most famous oligarchs from ...

Rise of the Ruddbot

01 Jul 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

Opposition leaders are like miniature piglets. They look so sweet in the shop, don’t t...

Quarterly Essay 56 Clivosaurus

11 Nov 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

Who is Clive Palmer, and what does his ascent say about Australia’s creaking political...

Who Rules the World?

05 May 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellec...

North Korea Undercover

14 Nov 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell’s 1984 made reality. The r...

Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share

01 Jun 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capa...

Axis of Deceit

01 Sep 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines afte...

No Is Not Enough

13 Jun 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

** The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary person's guide to hope....

Three Weeks in Bali: A Personal Account of the Bali Bombing

01 Oct 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Alan Atkinson has worked for the ABC for more than 20 years and is currently Day Editor ...

Thank You for Being Late

22 Nov 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

The new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The World ...

The Interrogator

01 Aug 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

This is the never-before-told story of the ‘dark side’ of the Bush administration’...

The Making of Donald Trump

08 Mar 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

In The Making of Donald Trump , Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter David Ca...

Double Down

07 Nov 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

‘What am I supposed to do when he starts spewing his b******t?’ Barack Obama prepari...

American sniper

02 Dec 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

Tra il 1999 e il 2009 Chris Kyle, membro dei Navy SEAL degli Stati Uniti, ha fatto regis...

Dead Aid

11 Aug 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Wester...

Asia's Reckoning

05 Sep 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard , Books of the Year 2017 The dramat...

Reframe

25 Jan 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

“An original and vital contribution to understanding politics.” – Matt Ridley, aut...

Great Again

03 Nov 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

In this book (previously published as Crippled America ), we’re going to look at the s...

Duty

14 Jan 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the ...

The View from Flyover Country

17 Apr 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionat...

Dial M for Murdoch

19 Apr 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

'This book uncovers the inner workings of one of the most powerful companies in the worl...

ISIS

12 Apr 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Fully Revised & Updated Edition of the  New York Times  Bestselling and Hi...

A Little History of the Australian Labor Party

05 Jan 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties and was the first in the ...

Environmentalism Not About the Earth But About Control

01 Mar 2010

Public Administration

An examination of the worldviews behind the efforts to safegaurd the planet...

Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line

13 Jun 2016

Public Administration

Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, A...

What Would Gandhi Do?

15 Nov 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Regarded as the Father of the Nation in India and globally as the most successful expone...

Liars, Leakers, and Liberals

19 Jun 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand ho...

Dirty Money

02 Feb 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Ever wondered about the real meaning of "The Wizard of Oz?" Who do you think really cont...

Al Qaeda in Its Third Decade

16 Feb 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

This essay examines a number of issues concerning the status of al Qaeda more than ten y...

The Quest

20 Sep 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

The Quest continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin began twenty years ago with his No....

There Goes the Neighbourhood

05 Jan 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and ...

Black Flags

29 Sep 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

**WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016** In a thrilling dramatic narrative,...

Absurdistan

01 Jun 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

The highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional plac...

Devil's Bargain

18 Jul 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. From the reporter who was there at the very be...

PostCapitalism

30 Jul 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our...

Mein Kampf - My Struggle

01 Jul 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

This is original and unabridged edition of this revolutionary book. Mein Kampf (“My St...

The Mad Marathon

25 Sep 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo MacCallum to mak...

Collusion

16 Nov 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first ti...

The ISIS Apocalypse

22 Sep 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern his...

Age of Ambition

26 Jun 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014* A young army captain who risked execution to sw...

No One Left to Lie To

01 Jun 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Clintonism' is not an idea, or a program; still less is it a principle. It represents wh...

All the Kremlin's Men

06 Sep 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impres...

The Gillard Project

22 Apr 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

It was a comedy of manners, it was a comedy of errors, it was a tragedy, it was a bunch ...

Undercover Jihadi Bride

01 May 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Previously published as ‘In the Skin of a Jihadist’ Twenty year-old “Mélodie”, ...

The Fear

01 Jul 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

In mid-2008, after thirty years of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe, the eigh...

Deer Hunting With Jesus

01 Jun 2009

Politics & Current Affairs

When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his r...

Capital

05 Feb 2004

Politics & Current Affairs

One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential,...

Trumpocracy

16 Jan 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

A New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and At...

Race of a Lifetime

06 Oct 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the pl...

Listen, Liberal

18 May 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times -bestselling author...

Power Failure

12 May 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

The inside story of a wicked problem … What should Australia do about climate change? ...

Boyer Lectures 2011

01 Dec 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

A compelling Boyer Lecture from Australian literary sensation Geraldine Brooks. For theB...

Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed

17 Jan 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

This compelling work of investigative journalism reveals how James Hardie concealed an a...

Battlelines

01 Aug 2009

Politics & Current Affairs

New introduction on why good policy matters and why books debating big policy ideas matt...

The Zero Marginal Cost Society

01 Apr 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin descr...

Griftopia

22 Nov 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history The global f...

Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?

09 Mar 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, cons...

The Communist Manifesto: Audio Edition

08 Aug 2008

Politics & Current Affairs

The Communist Manifesto: Audio Edition is a fully-integrated text and audio book of Marx...

The Communist Manifesto - In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)

29 Jan 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Communism is evil, right? Not exactly. The ideas behind communism were revolutionary and...

The Taliban Shuffe

03 Oct 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

A true-life Catch-22 set in the war-torn countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one o...

The Way of the Knife

24 Jul 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CI...

People Like Us

24 Apr 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretar...

The Party

03 Jun 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

China's secret rulers are the elephant in the room. They are the largest political organ...

Sideshow

02 May 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to adm...

Another Man's War

03 Oct 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered jus...

Ashbygate

27 Nov 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

The case of James Ashby versus Peter Slipper transfixed a nation, caused daily headlines...

Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote

06 Oct 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Politics Transformed: The High Tech Battle for Your Vote is an in-depth look at how soci...

Notes on Nationalism

22 Feb 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

' The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lun...

Cocaina

20 Mar 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Breathtaking investigative journalism from the front line of the cocaine trade When Colo...

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead

03 Oct 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Four of the world’s most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the m...

Rudd v Abbott

02 Jul 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have resumed battle for leadership of the nation. Here, in on...

Crimes Against Humanity

31 Aug 2006

Politics & Current Affairs

Geoffrey Robertson QC, acclaimed author of The Case of the Pope , presents a freshly upd...

Hearts & Minds

16 Jul 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

<p>In Hearts & Minds: A Blueprint for Modern Labor , former cabinet minister C...

The Rise of the Fifth Estate

22 Aug 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

The Rise of the Fifth Estate is the first book to examine the emergence of social media ...

Fear of Abandonment

03 Apr 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand...

Conspiracy

01 Mar 2006

Politics & Current Affairs

22 November 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his moto...

Crocs in the Cabinet

29 Nov 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

This may read like a satire, but it is all true. These are stories you couldn't make up....

The Terror Years

25 Aug 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Midd...

No, Minister

01 Jun 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Nothing prepares a person for the job of chief of staff to a Commonwealth Minister. Ther...

Latham at Large

02 Mar 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Mark Latham is, by his own admission, the most outspoken, rebellious, thoroughly uncontr...

The Gatekeepers

01 Aug 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

So, you want to be Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister? The Gatekeepers prov...

Catch and Kill

01 Jul 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Power is the only measure of a politician that matters: how they win power, how they use...

No Go Zones

14 Aug 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

"[A] summer must read." — SEAN HANNITY, Fox News "[No Go Zones] should be required rea...

Lee Kuan Yew

01 Feb 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial o...

Politics With Purpose

26 Sep 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

‘We cannot blame particular individuals for modern Labor’s malaise, because it is pa...

The Whitlam Mob

01 Jul 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

“We were a motley mob, we sans-culottes of Canberra …” In this ...

In Search of Good Government

01 May 2017

Politics & Current Affairs

With the politics of rage and resentment dominating many Western nations, including Aust...

Crying in the Dark

01 Nov 2007

Public Administration

Four extraordinary true stories ... Bobby and Micky, six and four, controlled from beyon...

Edge of Chaos

24 Apr 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is once again on the edge of c...

Quarterly Essay 40 Trivial Pursuit

16 Nov 2010

Politics & Current Affairs

In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to...

Remaking the Middle East

30 Apr 2018

Politics & Current Affairs

Not since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire has the Middle East been convulsed by so ma...

How to Run a Government

12 Mar 2015

Politics & Current Affairs

Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Why is this...

Anarchism For Beginners

16 Dec 2008

Politics & Current Affairs

During the second half of the Twentieth Century, the ideas of leading anarchist thinkers...

Plato Republic & Aristotle Politics

28 Dec 2012

Politics & Current Affairs

Presenting political approaches formulated based off the works of Aristotle and Plato. W...

Panic

24 Jul 2013

Politics & Current Affairs

Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking b...

The Mind of the Islamic State

22 Oct 2016

Politics & Current Affairs

So often in history, it is ideas that kill… What are the ideas that drive the Islamic ...

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

10 Dec 2014

Politics & Current Affairs

Who has the right to Palestine? The conflict between Israel and Palestine is one of the ...

Malcolm X

20 Nov 2011

Politics & Current Affairs

Malcolm X was a Muslim minister who fought to ensure equal rights for African Americans....

Brotherhood of Warriors

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