8 must-read politics books like Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76) by Peter Hartcher

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Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76)

By: Peter Hartcher

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But …

If you liked the politics plot in Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76) by Peter Hartcher , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. We Were the Mulvaneys

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed … read more

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4. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. Gerald's Game

By: Stephen King

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem… read more

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6. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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7. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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8. The Bhagavad Gita

By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more

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9. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

By: Tiago Forte

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

By: Nir Eyal

3.75

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interru… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."

-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"

-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

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15. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

By: Julia Baird

3.78

Format: 320 pages, ebook

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

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16. The Yield

By: Tara June Winch

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"

-Tara June Winch, The Yield

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17. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

By: Deesha Philyaw

4.17

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more

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  • audiobook
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"

-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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18. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

By: Faith G. Harper

3.32

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."

-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

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19. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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20. The Call

By: Christian White

3.56

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for years, running one of the two local pubs in the slee… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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21. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.07

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"

-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

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22. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Auē

By: Becky Manawatu

4.50

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more

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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."

-Becky Manawatu, Auē

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24. Tell Me Again

By: Amy Thunig

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"

-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again

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25. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

By: Kevin Rudd

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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26. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath

By: Lech Blaine

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“A story of carnage and life-long consequences. A brave and unsettling account.” —Tim Winton, autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry

By: Beau Donelly

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a health… read more

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  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76)

By: Peter Hartcher

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • essays
  • china
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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29. Stalin's Wine Cellar

By: John Baker

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

By: David Leser

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler bo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
"To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time."

-David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

"I thought about the opposite sex endlessly, and as I grew up, it became an almost all-consuming desire: resting my head against the soft fullness of a breast (pendulous or pert, it didn't matter), wa…"

-David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

"I thought about the opposite sex endlessly, and as I grew up, it became an almost all-consuming desire: resting my head against the soft fullness of a breast (pendulous or pert, it didn't matter), wa…"

-David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

"Maybe, in the unfathomable reaches of the male psyche, men have always been frightened of women - or at least frightened of the feminine qualities within themselves: those qualities that point inward…"

-David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing

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31. Please Gamble Irresponsibly: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Sports Gambling in Australia

By: Titus O'Reily

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. But how did we get here? In his inimit… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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