Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
From the bestselling author of Lo"sing Ground" and "The Bell Curve," this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that historically have joined our classes. In "Coming Apart," Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anyth ...Show more
Ulster 1969 - The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland by Max Hastings
$140.00 AUD
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Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Not on the Label: What Really Goes Into The Food on your plate by Felicity Lawrence
$20.00 AUD
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We no longer trust what we eat. We lurch instead from food scare to food scare while farming is in crisis around the world. A handful of retailers and food manufacturers exert unprecedented control over what we eat and where we buy it. We have come to depend on processed food that is routinely adulterat ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Abacus 40th edition by Malcolm Gladwell
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explai ...Show more
Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda by Michael Burleigh
$60.00 AUD
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Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious belief wa ...Show more
The Dragons of Expectation - Reality and Delusion in the Course of History by Robert Conquest
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'The Dragons of Expectation' is an urgent call for society to examine the brain-blindfolds that have consistently stifled debate and prevented painful self-examination. It is a landmark defence of civilisation that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our current world. ...Show more
The Elephant and the Flea by Charles B. Handy
$15.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The author examines his own experience and theories of life and work, using them to discuss the future of everything from education, work and marriage to capitalism, management, religion and society.
Backlash - The Undeclared War Against Women by Susan Faludi
$12.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that equality.
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry A. Kissinger
$15.00 AUD
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In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more
America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
President George W. Bush is leading a revolution in American foreign policy. Galvanized by the terrorist attacks of September 11, he has radically amended, and in some cases abandoned, strategies and institutions that for decades guided America's engagement in the world. With terrorists, tyrants and tec ...Show more
RIVALS - HOW THE POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHINA, INDIA AND JAPAN WILL SHAPE OUR NEXT DECADE by Bill Emmott
$65.00 AUD
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