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 | The 7.56 Report by Clarke John . More wonderful interviews with Australia's leading citizens, drawn from John Clarke and Bryan Dawe's weekly broadcasts on ABC TV's 7.30 Report. They are so funny and witty and clever without being smart alecs. |
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| Among the Dead Cities by Grayling, A.C. . Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was it, in fact, a crime against humanity? Are there lessons for today? |
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| Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama . With intimacy and self-deprecating humour, Obama describes his experiences as a politician, about balancing his family life and his public vocation. His search for consensus and his respect for the democratic process inform every sentence of "The Audacity of Hope". A senator and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a sceptic, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power that will inspire people the world over. |
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 | Australian Charter of Employment Rights Edited by Mordy Bromberg, and Mark Irving . Aims to promote political debate and provide a blueprint for the future of industrial relations. |
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| Behind Closed Doors by Warhurst, John . In Behind Closed Doors the ANU's John Warhurst, an observer of the lobbying industry for thirty years, describes its growing size and importance in Australia. He looks at the many ways in which lobbyists attempt to influence politicians and other decision makers, and assesses their positive and negative roles in the political system. |
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 | Deadly Connections by Byman, Daniel L. . This book examines state sponsorship of terrorism in the Middle East and South Asia. Paperback , 229 x 153mm. |
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 | Flag and Nation by Elizabeth Kwan. Examines a range of evidence, including many illustrations, the politics of patriotism behind Australians' continuing transition from British to Australian national symbols since 1901. This book explains why Australians retained the Union Jack as their national flag for so long after federation in 1901, and why the change was made in 1954. |
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Government Communication in Australia by Young, Sally . A whole heap of experts provide information on this fascinating topic.
Part I The political, legal and economic context 1 Part II The government–media relationship 63 Part III Government communication workers: Spin doctors, speechwriters and PR practitioners Part IV Government use of media Part V The social framework: Citizens, NGOs and government |
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How to Argue with an Economist by Edwards, Lindy . This fascinating book reflects on how economics has become central to our lives, and how the 'economic rationalist' perspective has become the lens through which all matters in Australian public life are viewed. It explains how this economic worldview systematically overlooks important social issues and how it transforms Australian culture. |
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 | In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India colour by Luce, Edward . India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. |
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 | Jungle Capitalists by Chapman, Peter . In this powerful and gripping book, Peter Chapman shows how the pioneering example of the importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized greed of today's multinational companies. The story has its source in United Fruit's 19th Century beginnings in the jungles of Costa Rica. It moves via the mass-marketing of the banana as the original fast food, United Fruit's involvement in an invasion of Honduras, a massacre in columbia and a bloody coup in Guatemala, and the very public suicide on Park Avenue of the company's chairman, Eli Black, in the 1970s. |
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 | Making Aid Work by Banerjee, Abhijit, Amsden, Alice H., Deaton, Angus, Offenheiser, Raymond, Stern, Nicholas . The problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. This title offers an account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. It argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. Is it all about politics or does helping people come into it? |
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 | Man of Steel: A Cartoon History of the Howard Years by Radcliffe Russ . Delivers a full colour alternative history of John Howard's premiership as interpreted by Australia's finest political cartoonists. |
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 | No, Prime Minister by Strangio, Paul, Walter, James . Argues persuasively that we need to reclaim politics and power from politicians who have increasingly pursued contentious policies unconstrained by robust debate. P Strangio, Monash University. |
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Pillars of Power by Solomon, David . Pillars of Power examines Australia's most important political, legal and social institutions - the government, the courts, the unions, the media, the economic regulators, the defence and security apparatus, the universities, even sport. David Solomon looks at how these institutions have changed in the modern era and how they operate today - their operation, their influence, their strengths and their weaknesses. |
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 | Power Without Responsibility? Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard by Tiernan, Anne . A raft of recent political scandals in Australia has generated widespread media and public interest in the role and accountability of ministerial staffers, and their impact on relations between ministers and their public service advisers. Such scandals include the notorious ?Children overboard? affair and the more recent AWB imbroglio. |
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 | Revolutionaries by Hobsbawm, E J . Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and long-standing Marxist Eric Hobsbawm is a commentary and critical retrospective on the revolutionary movements and ideas that dominated the twentieth century, and which remain of crucial contemporary relevance. The essays here explore a broad range of related topics including the history of communism, the influence of marxism, insurrection, military coups and guerrilla warfare, and the role of intellectuals. |
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 | SBS World Guide 15th Edition by Contributing Editors . FIFTEENTH EDITION. This definitive Australian publication for authoritative information on every country in the world, has been fully updated, providing instant access. |
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Scorcher by Hamilton, Clive . This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts and looking for the solutions that are desperately needed? Written with humour, urgency and great authority, this is the definitive account of the politics of climate change in Australia. |
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 | Stand By Your Man by Mitchell, Susan . Three powerful and engaging biographies of three former wives of Liberal prime ministers whose lives have been lived in the shadow of their husbands - full of intrigue and revelation! |
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The Clash of Barbarisms by Achcar, Gilbert . The London bombings of July 7th, 2005, revived the debates that raged after 9/11. What relation did they bear to the foreign and war policies of the United Kingdom and the United States? Were they symptoms of a "cultural clash" between deep-seated "values" or signs of a social crisis at the root of the ongoing conflict? How should we analyze the present-day emergence of fanatical forms of Islamic fundamentalism? "This inquiry into the probable shape of things to come is sober, uncompromising, deeply informed, and full of provocative insights and judicious analyses." —Noam Chomsky "The most forceful, most rigorous text that there is to read on this war." —Le Monde Diplomatique |
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The Crikey Guide to the 2007 Federal Election by Kerr, Christian . How can you vote when you don't understand the game? The idea is,
on the night, follow the election and as your party wins a seat you rip out the pages
about that electorate and throw them in the air with delight, as you lose a seat you throw them on the floor in disgust - fun hey! With the 2007 federal election looming, the insiders from leading Australian independent media outlet Crikey explain how the system works and how the pollies are working the system. |
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 | The Turning Point in China's Economic Development by Song, Ligang, Garnaut, Ross . The profound economic transformation in China is not a linear process. It is subject to fundamental shifts in its underlying structure. One of those structural transformations will be a shift from unlimited to limited supplies of labour in China's economic development. Is China approaching this turning point? What are the dynamic forces in driving China moving towards this turning point? |
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The Witnesses by Stover, Eric . "Stover's important study illuminates new terrain and provides a valuable tool for evaluating and improving the performance of the international human rights courts that emerged in the 1990s. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice |
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