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Curtin's Empire
Author: James Curran (University of Sydney) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 John Curtin remains a venerated leader. His role as Labor's wartime supremo is etched deep into the national...
Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
Author: Patrick Winn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance
Author: Peter Apps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT 'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE 'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAIL The history of the world's...
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption
Author: Patrick Alley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ***** 'Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue 'Very Bad People...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New...
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right
Author: Jacob Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher...
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider
Author: Ian Dunt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that...
The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
Author: P. E. Moskowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 There's a critical debate taking place in this country over one of the most fundamental pillars of our democracy: free...
Kim and Jim: Philby and Angleton, Friends and Enemies in the Cold War
Author: Michael Holzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. He was one of the...
The Activist Leader: A New Mindset for Doing Business
Author: Lucy Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 If you want to be a successful leader in today's business world, you need to think like an activist. If you...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
How Good is Scott Morrison?
Author: Peter van Onselen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating...
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Author: Yang Jisheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great...
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War
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Author: Monte Reel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and...
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator
Author: Jung H. Pak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state....
Politics, But Better: An A - Z Guide to Creating a More Hopeful Future
Author: Tatton Spiller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Strikes across the country. A prime minister resigning after just forty-four days. Accusations of bullying in the House of Commons. Our...
Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us
Author: Kubra Gumusay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it mean to exist in a language...
Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis (University of Athens Greece) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
Author: Ric Prado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars...
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Author: John G. Matsusaka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism...
Death in the Blood: the most shocking scandal in NHS history from the journalist who has followed the story for over two decades
Author: Caroline Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations.' - Andy Burnham 'This is crusading journalism at its best.' - Lord Owen...
Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election
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Author: Michael Isikoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Author: Barnes Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side...
Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is - and why it
Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 This is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and...
Move: How Mass Migration Will Reshape the World - and What It Means
Author: Parag Khanna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Where will you live in 2030? Where will your children settle in 2040? What will the map of humanity look like...
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior
Author: Liz Cheney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and...
Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 'Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live...
Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'At a time when democracy feels threatened, Simon Kuper is fighting hard for a better vision of politics - he is...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
Author: Jonna Mendez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the...
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller
Author: Robert Peston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking...
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Author: Martin Luther King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...
Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives
Author: Karl Radek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 510 This collection of documents, sealed for years in Stalin's secret archives, gathers some of Karl Bernhardovich Radek's most important contributions to...
October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election
Author: Devlin Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon....
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Author: Nesrine Malik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave...
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Author: Talia Lavin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
Author: Nouriel Roubini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we...
In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a
Author: Jama Lazerow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 277 Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966....
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul
Author: Asne Seierstad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding 'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan...
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
Author: James Kitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to...
Price Wars: How Chaotic Markets Are Creating a Chaotic World
Author: Rupert Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too...
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea
Author: Jonathan White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing...
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution
Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Author: Maurice J Casey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 418 'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's...
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
Author: Neil Gorsuch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into...
Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
Author: Brian Tyler Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen...