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Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections That Shaped Australia by Frank Bongiorno (Editor); Benjamin T. Jones (Editor); John Uhr (Editor)
29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Politics Ser.
In a world of fake news and populist politics, elections can seem like theatre. With growing rates of informal votes and a perceived narrowing of differences between the major parties, do Australian elections really matter? Taking ten examples, this book argues that elections do matter (even when you th ...Show more
Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser.
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
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World by Tim Marshall (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Politics of Place Ser.
In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). Maps have a mysterious hold ove ...Show more
The Age of Walls - How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World by Tim Marshall
49.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Politics of Place Ser.
The globe has always been a world of walls, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to the Berlin Wall. But a new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us, visible not just in Trump's obsession with building a wall on the Mexico border or in Britain's Brexit vote but in many other ...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
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