Culture and Ideology in the 1990s
Author: Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of la ... |
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Get Ready for Armageddon
Author: Mark Steyn
New York Times"-bestselling author Steyn argues that Barack Obama is moving the country toward a Scandinavian-style, big-government system that will stifle liberty and leave the world in a dangerous place. Optimistic ... |
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Frameworks, Status, Prospects
Author: Gabrielle Hogan-Brun & Stefan Wolff
Minority languages are part of Europe's shared cultural heritage and there is a broad consensus that it is important to protect and encourage linguistic and cultural diversity during the process of continuing European in ... |
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Author: Patrick Lindsay
In 1942 a small band of young Australian soldiers overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to preserve Australia's freedom along the Kokoda Track. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolis ... |
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An Investigation of Political Power
Author: David McKnight
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is the most powerful media organisation in the world. Murdoch's commercial success is obvious, but less well understood is his successful pursuit of political goals, using News Corporati ... |
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The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry
Author: Charles Massy
Breaking the Sheep's Back is the untold story of Australia's biggest business disaster. It involves government complicity, and it is a political scandal that reaches into the offices of Cabinet ministers and prime minist ... |
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The Unauthorised Autobiography
Author: Julian Assange
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography is a portrait of a man who polarises opinion but who has also changed the world. Whether you read this book as a ghosted memoir or as a 'literary interpretation of a convers ... |
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Author: John Howard
John Howard's autobiography, Lazarus Rising, is the biggest-selling political memoir Australia has seen. In it he talks about his love for his family, his rollercoaster ride to the Lodge and how - as prime minister - he ... |
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Author: Frank Walker
The Vietnamese hill tribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, the 28-year-old Barry was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-ma ... |
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Author: Anna Funder
In the former East there was one agent of the Stasi, the secret police, for every six citizens. What did it do to people to be so watched? And what sort of people were they, all those watchers? In her internationally acc ... |
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Author: Paul Keating
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that all the speeches are the work of one eye ... |
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The Story of the AK-47
Author: C. J. Chivers
The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most abundant and efficient firearm on earth. It is so light it can be used by children. It has transformed the way we fight wars, and its story is the chilling story of modern warfare ... |
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Choosing Between Progress and Planet
Author: Andrew Charlton
"We shouldn't be too hard on ourselves," my German colleague said to me. "We have to be realistic about the problem. The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves." In ... |
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A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
Author: Luis Carlos Montalvan & Bret Witter
A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier's life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during ... |
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The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes
Author: Steven Pinker
Do we really care about each other less than we did in the past? This myth-destroying book shows that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less, not more, violent from prehistory to today. Even ... |
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Author: Frank Walker
For 39 years the Australian Defence Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defence and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War.The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular t ... |
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Author: Kevin Blackburn
Japanese World War II POW camps conjure up a notorious picture of deprivation and brutality. The idea that sport, of all things, flourished in such hellish conditions is hard to envisage but the truth is, it did. Captive ... |
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The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide
Author: Peter Pedersen & Chris Roberts
A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial arch ... |
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The Japanese on the Kokoda Track
Author: Craig Collie & Hajime Marutani
"We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back." Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy, precipitous track over the mountainous sp ... |
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Author: Tony Judt & Timothy Snyder
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century c ... |
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