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Up from the MissionSelected Writings Noel Pearson
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia's most influential figures. This is writing of great passion and power, which introduces a …
The Next 100 Years George Friedman
The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the twenty-first century. He explains where and why future wars will erupt (and how they will be fought), which …
The Value of Nothing Raj Patel
Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic and the gears of the world economy have ground to a halt. It's time to address one of the most fundamental questions a society can ask: Why do things cost what they do? In The Value of Nothing, writer …
The March of the Patriots Paul Kelly
The March of Patriots looks at the creation of a new Australian Settlement during the 1991-2003 era of Paul Keating and John Howard. Keating and Howard were the first two Australian prime ministers of the globalised age. They were raised together,…
Superfreakonomics S Levitt & S Dubner
Here at last is the long awaited sequel to the international bestselling phenomenon, Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial …
The Life and Death of Democracy John Keane
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy …
Hot Flat and Crowded Thomas Friedman
Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today – our hot, flat and crowded world. Climate change and rapid …
Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen
In 1971 Richard Nixon installed a sophisticated voice-activated recording system in the White House. Three years later he became the first US president to resign, implicated in the Watergate cover-up by the evidence of his own tapes. In the …
Race of a Lifetime M Halperin & J Heilemann
The American presidential election of 2008 was as riveting a spectacle as modern politics has ever produced. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton - and the improbable resurrection of …
Lords of Finance Ahmed Liaquat
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the …
Malcolm Fraser The Political Memoirs Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser is one of the least known, most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's prime ministers. In this book, part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser, at the age of 79, explains himself and his record in …
It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller Liar's Poker exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it as …
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In 'Ill Fares The Land,' Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt …
Vintage Keating: His Wit and Wisdom Brian Carroll
So far, Paul Keating is the only Australian Prime Minister to provide star material for a musical comedy. Who can imagine any of the others doing that?Even before he became Prime Minister, Keating had made a name for himself as someone who could …
They were known as 'The Rock.' For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over …
Power Trip The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd Quarterly Essay 38 David Marr
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tradegy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transformation of a dreamy kid into …
Liberty in the Age of Terror A. C. Grayling
'The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.' James Madison Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' …
The Revolt of the Pendulum Clive James
The further thoughts of Clive James - illuminating, insightful, informed, inspired, intelligent. These are words that could – and do – apply equally to book or author; in fact, The Revolt of the Pendulum, Clive James' latest essay collection, …
Backstage Politics Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams has been close to governments of various persuasions for over fifty years. Having been a confidant – or a fierce opponent – of many of Australia's most influential figures over that time, he has built up an unparalleled collection …
groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British …
Malcom Fraser Malcom Fraser & Margaret Simons
Malcolm Fraser is one of the most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's Prime Ministers. In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser at the age of 79 years talks about his time in public life. From the Vietnam …
Since its launch in 2006, WikiLeaks has rapidly grown into the most powerful and influential whistleblowing organisation ever. Its status as a repository and publisher of leaked sensitive and confidential documents - while preserving the …
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The …
Sideshow Dumbing Down Democracy Lindsay Tanner
When Lindsay Tanner resigned in 2010 as the ALP's federal minister for finance and member for Melbourne, having had an 18-year career as an MP, he notably managed to retire with his reputation for integrity intact. In Sideshow, he lays bare the …
The Googlization of Everything Siva vaidhyanathan
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission - 'To organize the world's information …
Indignez-vous! Stephne Hessell
Stephane Hessel, Resistance fighter and concentration-camp survivor, tells the young of today that their lives and liberties are worth fighting for. Remembering the ideals for which he risked his life, while never forgetting the evils against …
Hitchens Vs Blair Christopher Hitchens & Tony Blair
On November 26, 2010, intellectual juggernaut and staunch atheist Christopher Hitchens went head-to-head with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of the Western world's most openly devout political leaders, on the highly charged topic …
fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping …
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power Yan Xuetong
The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China'…
Too Much Luck The Mining Boom and Australia's Future Paul Cleary
In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows that the resources boom, which seems like a blessing, has the potential to become a curse unless our governments take urgent action. Today, under-taxed and under-regulated multinational companies make a tidy …