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Proconsul In Politics: A Study Of Lord Milner In Opposition And In Power
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Author: A. M. GollinBinding: HardbackPublished: Anthony Blond, 1964Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a comprehensive examination of Lord Milner's political career. It meticulously details his...
Religion In Early Australia: The Problem Of Church And State
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Author: Jean WoolmingtonBinding: SoftbackPublished: CASSELL AUSTRALIA, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book is part of the 'Problems in Australian History' series. It examines the intricate relationship...
Early Constitutional Development In Australia: New South Wales 1788-1856; Queensland 1859-1922 (With Notes To 1963 By The Editor)
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Author: A. C. V. Melbourne; Edited And Introduced By R. B. JoyceBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Queensland Press, 1965Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book meticulously documents the...
The Law Relating To Charities In Ireland
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Author: V. T. H. DelanyBinding: HardbackPublished: Alex. Thom & Co., Ltd., 1111Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal framework governing...
Rhetoric At Rome: A Historical Survey
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Author: M. L. ClarkeBinding: HardbackPublished: Cohen & West, 1953Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical survey examines the art of rhetoric in ancient Rome....
The Buckingham Palace Connection
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Author: Ted WillisBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA gripping narrative unfolds, weaving together elements of intrigue and suspense within the corridors of power. A...
This Is The ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932-1983
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Author: K.S. InglisBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive account chronicles the history of the Australian Broadcasting Commission from 1932 to...
The Politics Of Jesus
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Author: John Howard YoderBinding: SoftbackPublished: William B. Eerdmans, 1980Condition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a radical alternative to traditional political thought. It challenges conventional wisdom...
The Frightened Country
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Author: Alan RenoufBinding: HardbackPublished: The Macmillan Company of Australia , 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines Australia's political landscape. It reflects on the nation's identity...
A New History Of Australia
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Author: Frank CrowleyBinding: SoftbackPublished: Melbourne, William Heinemann, , 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume presents a fresh perspective on the historical narrative of Australia. It...
The Real C-Cubed: Culture, Careers and Climate and How They Affect Military Capability.
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Author: Nick Jans With David SchmidtchenBinding: SoftbackPublished: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University, 2002Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the intricate relationships...
The Trial Of Charles I
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Author: C. V. WedgwoodBinding: SoftbackPublished: Penguin, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book recounts the trial of Charles I. It details the events, key figures, and political...
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
"Accomplished, well researched and pacey ... for anyone who wants to look beyond the headlines and explore the context of some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, it...
Jeffersonian Legacies
On the occasion of Thomas Jefferson's 250th birthday, a number of today's leading historicans take a fresh look at our third president, architect of democracy for his time and still...
Brewer's Politics: A Phrase and Fable Dictionary
Who said "If you can't convince them, confuse them"?. What murky facts lay behind Billygate and the Iran-Contra Affair? This reference supplies the answers to these and many other questions...
Evatt
Herbert Vere Evatt, famous Australian lawyer, politician and intellectual, was one of the key Australian public figures of the twentieth century. In 1930, at the remarkably young age of thirty-six,...
The Prince: Popular Penguins
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew...
The Hugo Young Papers: A Journalist's Notes from the Heart of Politics
Winner of the Channel Four Political Book of the Year 2008 Hugo Young was one of Britain's most influential, respected and trusted political journalists. For decades, until his death in...
Confessions of a Failed Finance Minister
Peter Walsh, the most outspoken minister in the ALP, updates his bestselling book to include analysis of the ALP debacle in the 1996 Federal election. He tells it how it...
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation: peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Powerful, moving, simple and forceful, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights speaks to us all - about hope, about our ideals, about the sort of world we want to...
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
Hailed as a 'great accomplishment' by the philadelphia Inquirer', Susan Moeller's Compassion Fatigue' warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the...
The Liberals
The Australian Liberal Party is in deep crisis. Losing the 'unloseable' election in 1993 gave it an unenviable record of five successive losses, nearly reversing the record of successes set...
And Then What?: Despatches From the Heart of 21st-Century Diplomacy,
Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What ? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is down-to-earth, the...
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics. Humans are heading...
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics. Humans are heading...
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics. Humans are heading...
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
"Accomplished, well researched and pacey ... for anyone who wants to look beyond the headlines and explore the context of some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, it...
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
"An engagingly written, veritable page-turner. Whether the topic is ethnic identity, Japanese imperialism, Panamanian shipping law or the defeat of Nazism, flags speak volumes about our human condition" -- Lawrence...
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them....
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
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When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them....
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011 In That Used to Be Us , Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze...
What's Wrong with the Liberal Party?
Federally the fortunes of the Australian Liberal Party have rarely been higher, yet times remain uncertain for the party, and questions about its future remain: How much more division about...
Havana Bay: An Arkady Renko Novel
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When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers...
Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Liberation of East
What was Australia's role in the independence of East Timor? Over the years, successive Australian governments had worked to preserve Indonesian sovereignty over the territory and so it was surprising...
Fact or Fission
Australia used to be prominent in trying to stop nuclear weapons testing and proliferation. Since 1996, however, such activities by Australian diplomats are almost unheard of. This book argues that...
Tell Them I'm on My Way
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In his chosen profession, Lord Goodman has been involved in many landmark legal actions. Trenchant views on all those and on Britain's antiquated legal system are given here. In politics,...
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The...
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and
'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening Standard THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men...
THE JANUARY 6 REPORT: Findings From the Select Committee to
Read the report from the Select Committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, with accompanying insights from New York Times reporters who've covered the story from the...
Downing Street: The War Years - Diaries, Letters and a Memoir
In 1940 John Martin was appointed Private Secretary to Winston Churchill. He remained at Churchill's side throughout the war and was promoted, in May 1941, to Principal Private Secretary. During...
The Global Public Sphere: Public Communication in the Age of
Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged. This debate critically reflects the Habermasian ideal of a (national) public sphere in a transnational context....
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
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In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance...
Adams Vs. God: The Rematch
Phillip Adams says he stopped believing in God at the age of six. At sixty-eight he has gathered the best of his essays on God and godlessness into this bible-banging,...
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of
In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's "Creator and "Nature's God," on...