The War Came to Us - Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
$42.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS
'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a seasoned, personal perspective to his account of both the 16-month conflict and its wider roots.'Daily Telegraph'An eye-opening and deeply touching inside story of the country's long fight for freedom against Russian aggression.'WaterstonesA breathtaking explorati ...Show more
Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS
Having been accused of antisemitism for writing an account of the injustices she witnessed in Palestine, Rebecca Ruth Gould embarks on a journey to understand how the fight against antisemitism has been weaponized not to defend civil rights, but to deny them. In this exploration, she comes to a broader ...Show more
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, 'An English Affair' is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 - Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above ...Show more
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump : 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy Lee
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. This is not normal. Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated th ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
$36.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
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Category: POLITICS
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Deep Black : The Secrets of Space Espionage by William E. Burrows
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
They are on the cutting edge of technology--the top-secret, billion-dollar instruments of super-power espionage. They are spy satellites--the means by which the super-pwers keep tabs on each other in the deep black of space. Excellent . . . Highly recommended --Booklist.
The Oxford Book of British Political Anecdotes by PAUL JOHNSON (ed)
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Renowned journalist and bestselling author, Paul Johnson here presents over three hundred anecdotes about the world of British politics from Richard III's murder of the princes in the Tower of London to a final frosty scene between Jim Callaghan and Barbara Castle. The stories range from the sublime to ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: POLITICS
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
$36.99 AUD
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