Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven g ...Show more
10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Nellie Bly
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go th ...Show more
The Mind of the Islamic State: Milestones Along the Road by Robert Manne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"'A deep dive into how the ideologues behind Salafi jihadism shaped the global menace that we now know as Islamic State. If you want to understand how it all began, this is an essential read.' - Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent for theGuardian, winner of the 2015 Orwell Prize for journalism So o ...Show more
On Tyranny - An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero by Leo Strauss; Alvin Johnson (Foreword by)
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
2015 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero," or "Tyrannicus," in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 75, No 2 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"The Meanjin winter issue takes on the culture wars. It's an essential primer in this election season written by Melbourne academic Mark Davis, the man who brought you Gangland, the book that revealed the baby boomer cultural monopoly. Now Davis turns his attention to the shady world of cultural politic ...Show more
Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your Guide to Ancient Mythology by Kathleen Sears
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: 101
Explore the fascinating myths of Greek and Roman civilizations The tales of gods and heroes are often turned into tedious discourse that even Ovid would reject. This easy-to-read guide cuts out the boring details, and instead, provides you with a thrilling lesson in classic mythology. From the heights o ...Show more
Dirty Secrets : Our ASIO files by Meredith Burgmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby, Peter Cundall, Gary Foley and Anne Su ...Show more
Menzies at War by Anne Henderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Rob ...Show more
Nova - Finding my Voice by Nova Peris
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Collection of pivotal speeches from Nova Peris as well as her favourite inspirational speeches by other key figures with personal introductions written by Nova. In 2013 Nova Peris, former athlete and the first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics, became the first Aboriginal woman e ...Show more
Endgame - Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump by Eric Swalwell
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect our country from a man who lies, who obstructs justice, and who seeks to cheat with foreign powers to get reelected? Our constitution offers one remedy: impeachment. Thanks to the courageous actions of public servants who came forward to report his a ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
I'll Take Your Questions Now - What I Saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Grisham's book shows considerably more humility and self-reflection than that of any other Trump administration veteran I've read (and I've pretty much read them all)." -- Laura Miller, Slate "Salacious and score-settling." --The Guardian "Part giddy travelogue, par ...Show more