Australias Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea & Australian Defence Since 1880 by Bruce Hunt
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Investigating Power Ser.
This book is the first to draw extensively on the recently released highly classified notes of the cabinet room discussions of successive Australian Governments, from 1950 to the mid-1970s. It details the changing attitude of the nation's leaders towards the place of Papua New Guinea in Australia's defe ...Show more
The Singapore Miracle: Myth and Reality by Rodney King
$44.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science by Ian Plimer
$50.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this controversial new book Australia's leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate--and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and Earth engagingly and comprehensively synthesizes what we know--or think we know -- about the sun, earth, ...Show more
Aboriginal Children History and Health Beyond Social Determinants by John Boulton
$58.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boulton's close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth falteri ...Show more
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of ...Show more
Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands by Roger Scruton
$24.99 AUD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: Current Affairs
From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such ...Show more
Donald J. Trump - A President Like No Other by Conrad Black
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Donald Trump Is a President Like No Other... Bestselling presidential historian Conrad Black (Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedomand Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full) can vouch for that. Black has negotiated with Trump in business; he knows him as a perceptive, thoughtful, and amusing friend; ...Show more
India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy by Ravi Agrawal
$65.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Former chief CNN India correspondent and award-wining journalist Ravi Agrawal takes readers on a journey across the Subcontinent, through its remote rural villages and its massive metropolises, seeking out the nexuses of change created by smartphones, and with them connection to the internet. As always ...Show more
Breaking News: Sex, Lies and the Murdoch Succession by Paul Barry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This is a book about the twilight of an empire. A media empire unique in the history of the English-language as it spreads its international dominance into television, film and newspapers, books and the electronic media. Ultimately all power in this mighty empire is in the hands of the man who started i ...Show more
Live Free or Die - America (and the World) on the Brink by Sean Hannity
$59.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
America's top-rated cable news host and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers his first book in ten years: a look at America's fight against those who would reverse our tradition of freedom--a fight we can't afford to lose in 2020. America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, ru ...Show more
The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe by Terry Irving
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Biography Ser.
A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How Labour Governs (1923), the world's first study of parliamentary socialism. At the end of the Firs ...Show more
Life after Google by George Gilder
$59.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade." "Google's algorithms a ...Show more