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Europe at the Gates: In the Era of Brexit and Trump by Guy Rundle
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Politics
The people of France went to the polls in 2017, narrowly avoiding elevating President Le Pen, a year after `Brexit' and Trump had stood the world on its ear. In Brussels, the EU's leaders consign Greece to despair, pure colonial repression. In Scandinavia, nativist parties take the place social democrat ...Show more
Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton
$28.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Most policymakers in the United States and Israel have it wrong: Hezbollah isn't a simple terrorist organization - nor is it likely to disappear any time soon. Following Israel's war against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, the Shi'i group - a hybrid of militia, political party, and social services and ...Show more
Liberty And The News by Lippmann Walter
$28.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\James Madison Library in American Politics Ser.
This little gem of a book, which first appeared in 1920, was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of the passionate faith in democracy that was evident in his writings before the First World War. From today's point of view, Lippmann's argument seems unusually prescient. He was ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
$28.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Transforming American Politics Ser.
"A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a remarkable author." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "A novel of genius and disturbing intelligence." -- Enrique Vila-Matas, author of The Illogic of Kassel This powerful, profou ...Show more
The Affirmative Action Empire - Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 by Terry Martin
$69.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: The\Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture Ser.
The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the ...Show more
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Castle Lectures Series in Ethics, Politics & Economics
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life--how the work ethic is changing; how ...Show more
The Laundromat: Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: politics
Now a major motion picture.The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstien takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions ...Show more
The Logic of Violence in Civil War by Stathis N. Kalyvas
$55.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotion ...Show more
The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
$41.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The James Madison Library in American Politics
With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in "The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Adver ...Show more
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$54.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations base ...Show more
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Ser.
The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew--the roots of the Second World War--and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation. Looking beyond traditional explanations based on diplomatic failures or military might, Jonathan Haslam explores the neglected thread connecting th ...Show more