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
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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
Pinochet In Piccadilly: Britain & Chile's Hidden History by ANDY BECKETT
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
War at the Top of the World : The Clash for Mastery of Asia by Eric Margolis
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Pacific Destiny - Inside Asia Today by Robert Elegant
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$45.00 (44% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Banana Diplomacy - The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987 by Roy Gutman
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules by Philippe Sands
$20.00 AUD
$35.00 (42% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
After the Second World War America and Britain led the creation of a new law-based international order, outlawing war and its excesses, protecting human rights and promoting free trade. Why is the US now undermining so many of those very laws? Leading international lawyer Philippe Sands has been involve ...Show more