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Kim Jong-Fun: Party Hard the North Korean Way

Kim Jong-Fun: Party Hard the North Korean Way

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For the baby-faced dictator in your life, a guide to throwing shindigs that go off like an intercontinental ballistic missile. ?????! Please express profound gratitude to Revered Marshall Kim Jong-un,...
The History Detective Investigates: Early Islamic Civilization

The History Detective Investigates: Early Islamic Civilization

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Become a history detective and find out more about early Islamic civilization. How did Islam start? What weapons did Islamic warriors use? Where was the 'Round City'? Who invented the...
Reports from a Turbulent Decade

Reports from a Turbulent Decade

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These are some of Australia's finest thinkers analysing the key issues that have had a major impact on Australia over the last turbulent decade, collated by our most influential think...
The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

The Mother and Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope

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Dozens of influential leaders have heard the pleas of mothers and children in developing countries. Raising their voices to inspire a movement to increase healthy pregnancies and lower death rates,...
War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

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Dealing with the events leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, and mirroring recent events in Serbia, this report contains the diplomatic exchanges that followed the assassination...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the

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An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning

The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning

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In this fully updated edition of his coruscating polemic, Tariq Ali shows how, since 1989, politics has become a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the...
The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama

The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama

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Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro presents a comprehensive case against Barack Obama's abuses of power during his time in office. From the DOJ to the...
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

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#1 New York Times Bestseller Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever conducted. That the Chinese government seeks...
Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

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Winner of the Crossword Prize for non-fiction, `"Curfewed Night'" is a passionate and important book - a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.'...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

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How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention

Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention

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Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...
The Economist's View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being

The Economist's View of the World: And the Quest for Well-Being

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Released in 1984, Steven E. Rhoads' classic was considered by many to be among the best introductions to the economic way of thinking and its applications. This anniversary edition has...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the

My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the

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This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...
How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the

How the East Was Won: Barbarian Conquerors, Universal Conquest and the

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How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew...
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in

Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in

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Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking...
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

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The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, featuring a new introduction from award-winning author and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Originally published...
Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism

Overloaded: Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism

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This volume examines the phenomenon of laddishness and the cult of the girlie in film, TV, advertising, music, politics, literature and society. It interprets these trends as a nostalgic longing...
To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and

To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and

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To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth shows the vital role played by legal imagination in the formation of the international order during 1300-1870. It discusses how European statehood arose...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (the Book): A Visitor's

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (the Book): A Visitor's

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The eagerly awaited new book from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show- anchoring Jon Stewart--the man behind the megaseller America (The Book) . Where do we come from? Who created us?...
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post-9/11

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post-9/11

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The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the world's leading thinkers and a startling picture of the turbulent world in which we live.
Fatal Deception: How Big Business is Still Killing Us with Asbestos

Fatal Deception: How Big Business is Still Killing Us with Asbestos

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Reveals an ongoing prevalence of toxic asbestos throughout America, tracing the poisoning rates in the vermiculite mining town of Libby, Montana, and exposing how corporations are successfully covering up their...
The Attack on Higher Education: The Dissolution of the American

The Attack on Higher Education: The Dissolution of the American

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American higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as corrupt, irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts,...
All's Fair: "Love, War and Running for President"

All's Fair: "Love, War and Running for President"

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Never before has a more revealing X ray been taken of the modern American presidential campaign than this compelling memoir of the nation's foremost political operatives, Democrat James Carville and...
The Power Of Speech

The Power Of Speech

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The subjects of this book are five fascinating prime ministers - Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard - and how they view Australia. Until the...
America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order

America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order

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George W. Bush's election and the fear and confusion of September 11 combined to allow a small group of radical intellectuals to seize the reins of US national security policy....
The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation....
Death as Way of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo

Death as Way of Life: Israel Ten Years After Oslo

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A Personal Chronicle of the Last Ten Years from a Leading Voice of Israeli DissentWhat went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence...
Africa: A Continent Self-destructs

Africa: A Continent Self-destructs

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Schwab discusses how myriad Subsaharan African states have all but ceased to exist as organized entities, with some spiralling into complete disintegration. Several were propelled into tyranny, others collapsed into...
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

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Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the...
An Irish Voice: The Quest for Peace

An Irish Voice: The Quest for Peace

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In 1992, while unable to get an American Visa, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was invited to write a series of columns for the "Irish Voice" newspaper and the "Irish...
Kartography

Kartography

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_______________ 'A boisterous tribute to her home town that crackles with the chaos of Pakistani political life' - The Times 'Deftly woven and provocative ... Shamsie's blistering humour and ear...
American Politics and Society

American Politics and Society

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Completely revised and updated to take full account of the most recent and dramatic changes in the nature of American government, the sixth edition provides a clear and concise introduction...
Vital Signs, Vibrant Society: Securing Australia's Economic and Social

Vital Signs, Vibrant Society: Securing Australia's Economic and Social

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Dr. Craig Emerson is the federal Labor MP for the seat of Rankin, Queensland. He was elected to parliament in 1998 and has held the positions of Chair of the...
Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless

Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless

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In this compelling biography, Andrew Boyd tells the story of Baroness Cox's humble beginnings as a nurse and her subsequent nine-year fight as a sociology lecturer and Labour supporter against...
Political Evil: What it is and How to Combat it

Political Evil: What it is and How to Combat it

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A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world. In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic...
A Republican Manifesto

A Republican Manifesto

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The author favours a republic that will preserve the existing system of government, but be controlled by a constitution that is a true democratic charter - unlike the present one....
Nelson Mandela: A Biography

Nelson Mandela: A Biography

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Sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his part in organizing armed rebellion against South Africa's white rulers, Nelson Mandela stayed faithful to his goal of a peaceful, non-racial...
The Party: the Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

The Party: the Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

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"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor's...
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2011

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2011

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The year-in-review as witnessed by our funniest and most subversive political cartoonists. The ninth edition of this best-selling series features the work of Peter Broelman, Warren Brown, Matt Davidson, Andrew...
Global Justice: Liberation and Socialism

Global Justice: Liberation and Socialism

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Imprint. These classic works by Che Guevara present a revolutionary view of a different world in which human solidarity and understanding replace aggressive capitalist competition and exploitation. Although best known...
John Dedman: A Most Unexpected Labor Man

John Dedman: A Most Unexpected Labor Man

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John Dedman was widely recognised in the 1940s and '50s as one of Labor's most accomplished ministers; he helped shape not only the war economy, but the domestic landscape of...
The New Friendly Islanders

The New Friendly Islanders

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This tiny archipelago of islands in the South Pacific has so far avoided republican overthrow and military coup, unlike its neighbour Fiji. What are its chances of surviving intact into...