Penguin Books Australia

THE ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION TO CHOMSKY'S POLITICAL IDEAS

With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections, originally published in the US only as individual short books, collectively selling over half a million copies, How the World Works covers:

WHAT UNCLE SAM REALLY WANTS:
 the main...

'The most famous living practitioner of international statecraft . . .  On China is part grand historical tour, part riveting memoir and part analysis'  Philip Sherwell, Sunday Telegraph  

'Drawing from a wealth of personal experience on the frontlines of world affairs, Mark's book is authentic, compelling and immensely enjoyable' Kofi A. Annan  

 In the twenty-first century our economies are more globalized than ever - why not our politics too?

The impact of emerging economies and sovereign wealth funds on capital markets: what investors must know to profit in the coming decade.

'WITTY, BRILLIANT, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN.  THINK P.J. O'ROURKE MEETS PAUL THEROUX.  WHO KNEW WAR COULD BE FUNNY?'
RAJIV CHANDRRASEKARAN, AUTHOR OF IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE IRAQ'S GREEN ZONE

A true-life Catch-22 set in the war-torn countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region's longest-serving correspondents.

A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror.

For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. While the world sees nothing but opportunistic bands of local bandits running riot, Jay Bahadur, the only Western journalist...

THE ARAB FOOTPRINT ON OUR WORLD IS PROFOUND -  from Islam to astronomy, from oil to Osama bin Laden. But can the threads of a shared language, a mostly shared religion, and overlapping historical experience equip Arab states to the meet the intense pressures of the twenty-first century? The demand for food, water, education, and jobs - all driven by huge population growth - plus the big-picture...

IN WHAT REGION OF THE WORLD CAN WE BEST GLIMPSE THE FUTURE?

For much of the twentieth century, Europe dominated global attention. Two world wars were won and lost on its battlefields, and the great ideological struggles of the Cold War were played out in its cities. The Atlantic Ocean was the locus of international power.

Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels.  As a newly installed Haitian president told Mark Danner in riot-torn Port-au-Prince, 'Violence strips bare a society's body, the better to place the stethoscope and track the life beneath the skin.'  This stark truth came to haunt Danner, especially after the president was overthrown in...

'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy  must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once.'  
President Woodrow Wilson, 1919

Welcome to the world of espionage.

Inside the cool novelty covers, we turn our magnifying glass on spies, snoops, and spooks throughout history in The Spy Book . Eavesdrop on the incredible tales of daring, explore top-secret gadgets, and find out why espionage still hits the headlines.

Code breakers and safe crackers, spy rings and honey traps, dead drops and lipstick pistols all lurk inside. Confidentially...

'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.'

'The most timely book of the year'
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

The world is changing, as power shifts from the West . . . to the rest.

THE GROWTH OF COUNTRIES such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing movies and most advanced mobile phones are now all being made outside Europe and the United...

'The language is lyrical, but Roy's critique is excoriating'   Scotsman

There's an India we don't know about. Behind the public image of a country of astonishing growth, with swelling cities and a burgeoning middle class, there's a country at war with itself.

For India's poor are being displaced on an industrial scale as companies move into rural areas to plunder their mineral wealth. But with...