The Alfred Deakin Debate: Barons to Bloggers: Confronting Media Power, Vol 1 [PB] Available
Jonathan Mills (series editor)
Whatever one thinks of Rupert Murdoch or his ethics, when a mogul of his stature stands on a public platform and predicts the end of God-like media figures telling people what's important, you begin to realise that there's something seismic going on in the world of communications.
General Series

American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond [PB] Available
Michael Otterman
Torture violates more than international law and fundamental human rights-it radicalises enemies, undermines credibility and yields unreliable intelligence.

Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground [PB] Available
Roger S. Magnusson
Angels of Death provides a window into the 'euthanasia underground'--a secret part of medicine and nursing that few professionals will publicly acknowledge.

Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Garry Woodard
Asian Alternatives re-examines Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Now with new foreword.
Academic Monograph

Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Garry Woodard
Asian Alternatives re-examines Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Now with new foreword.
Academic Monograph

Australia and the European Superpower: Engaging with the European Union, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Philomena Murray
In this lively examination of Australia's relationship with the increasingly powerful EU, Professor Philomena Murray provides a fresh and comprehensive perspective on politics and trade, old security and new security.
Academic Monograph

Australia and the European Superpower: Engaging with the European Union, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Philomena Murray
In this lively examination of Australia's relationship with the increasingly powerful EU, Professor Philomena Murray provides a fresh and comprehensive perspective on politics and trade, old security and new security.
Academic Monograph

Australian Citizenship [PB] Available
Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts
This lucid and accessible book invites the reader to think beyond simplistic answers to the question of what it means to be an Australian in 2004.

Australian Republicanism: A Reader [PB] Available
Mark McKenna and Wayne Hudson (eds)
This collection of readings is designed to transform the way Australians understand republicanism.

Authors Take Sides: Iraq and the Gulf War [PB] Available
Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Cecil Woolf (eds)
This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the Iraq invasion of 2003.

The Battle for Bennelong: The Adventures of Maxine McKew 50something [PB] Available
Margot Saville
In The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville hits the campaign trail with Maxine McKew, indulging Maxine's obsession with dim sum, watches her draw yet another raffle, and dance excitedly at the Granny Smith Festival. In a tight contest against John Howard fought on issues such as the economy, WorkChoices and succession plans, did Maxine's dancing affect her primary vote? You'll find out in The Battle for Bennelong.

Battlelines [PB] Available
Tony Abbott
Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party.

Battlelines (Updated Edition), updated edition [PB] Available
Tony Abbott
Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party.

Best Australian Political Writing 2007 [PB] Available
Tony Jones
Tony Jones selects the most illuminating, provocative and incisive analysis of the past year in politics.

Best Australian Political Writing 2009 [PB] Available
Eric Beecher (ed.)
Eric Beecher selects the most incisive and entertaining writing about the notable events and names of the past year.

Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans [PB] Available
Clare Wright
Awards: Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004
Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003
Beyond the Ladies Lounge challenges the myth of the Australian pub as a male domain by documenting the central role that women have historically played in hotelkeeping from colonial times to the present.

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 1, 1901-1929, Volume 1 [HB] Available
Edited by Ann Millar (Department of the Senate)
The first volume of this readable and authoritative work of reference will provide readers with a biographical account of Australian senators whose period of prominence was between 1901 and 1929.

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 2, 1929-1962, Volume 2 [HB] Available
Edited by Ann Millar (Department of the Senate)
This second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate covers the period from 1929 to 1962.

The Blogging Revolution [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is threatening the rule of some of the planet's most repressive governments.

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur [PB] Available
Ben Kiernan
Awards: Blood and Soil won the 2008 gold medal for the best book in the History category, awarded by the Independent Publishers association (Los Angeles, May 30, 2008).
The first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times to the present

Challenging Identities: Muslim Women in Australia, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Challenging Identities provides valuable first person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.
Academic Monograph

Challenging Identities: Muslim Women in Australia, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Shahram Akbarzadeh
Challenging Identities provides valuable first person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.
Academic Monograph

Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World [PB] Available
Joshua Kurlantzick
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power.

Coming to the Party: Where to Next for Labor? [PB] Available
Hon. Barry Jones (ed.)
'It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow.'

Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Paul Strangio and Nick Dyrenfurth
Confusion revisits the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives.
Academic Monograph

Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Paul Strangio and Nick Dyrenfurth
Confusion revisits the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives.
Academic Monograph

Denial: History Betrayed [PB] Available
Tony Taylor
Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial.

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks [PB] Available
Leigh Sales
Awards: Winner of the 2007 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism
Shortlisted for the 2007 Walkley Award
Shortlisted for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction category
Detainee 002 is a chilling reminder that, in a war with ever-changing rules and no end in sight, there are no limits. If you care about the Australia you live in, you must read this book.

The Ethical State?: Social Liberalism in Australia [PB] Available
Marian Sawer
Sawer's timely book offers an astute critique of the challenges facing social-liberal thought, and issues a rallying cry for its revival.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1, 1901 to the 1970s [HB] Available
David Goldsworthy (ed.)
Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1, 1901 to the 1970s [PB] Available
David Goldsworthy (ed.)
Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 2, 1970s to 2000 [HB] Available
Peter Edwards and David Goldsworthy (eds)
Foreword by Alexander Downer
Narrative history tracing the development of Australia's broad political, strategic, economic and people-to-people links with Asia over the century since the federation of Australian colonies.

Finishing the Job: Real-World Policy Solutions in Health, Housing, Education and Transport [PB] Available
Joshua Gans and Stephen King
A policy prescription for reforming economic approaches to health, education, housing and transport.

The Forest Wars [PB] Available
Judith Ajani
The Forest Wars explains why it is vital to end the conflict over Australia's forests and shows that there need be no divergence between development and environment.

Forged by War: Australians in Combat and Back Home [PB] Available
Gina Lennox
Powerful, personal stories of Australian soldiers and their families.

A Good Death: An Argument for Voluntary Euthanasia [PB] Available
Rodney Syme
Pamela Bone
Rodney Syme's candid and controversial account of the terminally ill people who he has assisted to end their lives.

The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror [PB] Available
Peter Beinart
'The years since 9/11 have seen so much American recklessness and so much stupidity that it is sometimes hard to even remember the hope, solidarity and resolve that Americans and Australians once shared . . .'

The Great Crash of 2008 [PB] Available
Ross Garnaut with David Llewellyn-Smith
Ross Garnaut takes us through the great crash of 2008 and the imbalances that led to the global financial crisis.

The Great Crash of 2008 [e-book] Available
Ross Garnaut with David Llewellyn Smith
Ross Garnaut takes us through the great crash of 2008 and the imbalances that led to the global financial crisis.

The Great Feminist Denial [PB] Available
Monica Dux and Zora Simic
The Great Feminist Denial puts an ailing feminist past to rest, and proposes a way forward that offers young women of today a new way of calling themselves feminists.

The Howard Factor: A Decade that Changed the Nation [PB] Available
Edited by Nick Cater
The Hon. John Howard MP, Prime Minister of Australia launched The Howard Factor on 2nd March at Parliament House in Canberra.

Howard's End: The Unravelling of a Government [PB] Available
Peter van Onselen and Philip Senior
From the co-writer of John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography, comes Howard's End, which takes us behind the scenes of both parties on the announcement of the election campaign.

I Lost My Love In Baghdad [PB] Available
Michael Hastings
Both a raw and brilliantly observed account of a hopeless war and a heartbreaking story of one life lost to it.

The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life [PB] Available
David Carter (ed.)
This book brings together some of Australia's brightest, best-known and controversial writers in a fresh discussion about the nature of public debate in this country.

Identity, Education and Belonging: Arab and Muslim Youth in Contemporary Australia, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Fethi Mansouri and Sally Percival Wood
Identity, Education and Belonging examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop.
Academic Monograph

Identity, Education and Belonging: Arab and Muslim Youth in Contemporary Australia, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Fethi Mansouri and Sally Percival Wood
Identity, Education and Belonging examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop.
Academic Monograph

Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia [PB] Available
Colin McLaren
A blistering tale of the only undercover cop to infiltrate the Griffith Mafia -- the biggest undercover sting in Australia's history.

Inside Kevin07: The People. The Plan. The Prize. [PB] Available
Christine Jackman
Inside Kevin 07 is an unprecedented revelation into how a modern political party works -- and succeeds.

Inside Muslim Minds [PB] Available
Riaz Hassan
If you want to know what Muslims think about blasphemy, jihad, the hijab and the clash of civilisations, this is the book for you.

Intending the World, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Ralph Pettman
In a disciplinary first, Ralph Pettman provides an account of twenty-first century international relations in terms of phenomenology.
Academic Monograph

Intending the World, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Ralph Pettman
In a disciplinary first, Ralph Pettman provides an account of twenty-first century international relations in terms of phenomenology.
Academic Monograph

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson [PB] Available
Gore Vidal
Inventing a Nation is Gore Vidal's testament to the America he loves and mourns, to its continued promise and troubled future.

Killing: Misadventures in Violence [PB] Available
Jeff Sparrow
Compassionate, engaged and political, Killing takes us up close to the ways society kills today, meditating on what violence means, not just for perpetrators but for all of us.

The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [PB] Available
Mark Davis
The book that tells the story of Australia today: how we got here, and where we're going. A blistering exposé and manifesto for every Australian.

The Latham Diaries (paperback) [PB] Available
Mark Latham
'Now that the Diaries are published, politicians and political journalists will have flipped through the index looking with apprehension and horror for the entries about themselves and cackling with delight at the author's jibes about their colleagues.

The Latham Diaries [HB] Available
Mark Latham
Awards: Shortlisted for two ABA awards:
Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2006
Australian Marketing Campaign of the Year 2006
Here are the political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders-published within twelve months of his resignation from office-an historic first.

Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead [PB] Available
Peter van Onselen (ed.)
An invaluable analysis of the challenges, pitfalls and opportunities that lie ahead for the Liberal Party.

LOST: Illegal Abortion Stories [PB] Available
Jo Wainer (ed.)
Foreword by Helen Garner
Here for the first time are edited transcripts of women who had illegal abortions dating from the 1930s in Australia.

The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia [HB] Available
Paul Kelly
The March of Patriots is the inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia.

A Matter of Principle: New Meetings with the Good, the Great and the Formidable [PB w flaps] Available
Jana Wendt
In A Matter of Principle Australia's most experienced and respected interviewer Jana Wendt engages an assortment of people in the worlds of politics, society, art, sport, music and architecture.

A Matter of Principle (B format edn): New Meetings with the Good, the Great and the Formidable [PB] Available
Jana Wendt
Australia's most experienced and respected interviewer, Jana Wendt, engages an assortment of people in the worlds of politics, society, art, sport, music and architecture.

The Media We Deserve: Underachievement in the Fourth Estate [PB] Available
David Salter
The Media We Deserve is about the major entities of the Australian media, their roles and influence in our lives, and the issues of journalistic practice that shape their content.

Military Stress and Performance: The Australian Defence Force experience [PB] Available
George E. Kearney, Mark Creamer, Ric Marshall and Anne Goyne (eds)
Foreword by General Peter Cosgrove
Focuses on the impact and methods of dealing with stress in a military environment based on research in the Australian Defence Force

Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969 [PB] Available
Joan Beaumont, Christopher Waters, David Lowe with Garry Woodard
The story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world.

The Mother of Mohammed B: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad [PB] Available
Sally Neighbour
The extraordinary story of how a dope-smoking beach bunny from Mudgee, Robyn Hutchinson, became Rabiah: a member of the jihadist elite.

The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad [PB] Available
Sally Neighbour
The extraordinary story of how a dope-smoking beach bunny from Mudgee, Robyn Hutchinson, became Rabiah -- a member of the jihadist elite.

Muhajababes [PB] Available
Allegra Stratton
Meet the youth of today's Middle East - cool, sexy, and devout.

My Israel Question [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks.

My Israel Question, Second edition [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Awards: Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2007
A new and expanded edition of the controversial discussion of one of the most important issues of our time.

My Israel Question (Third Edition), Third edition [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Awards: Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2007
A new and expanded edition of the controversial discussion of one of the most important issues of our time.

The New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church [PB] Available
Muriel Porter
This book explores the increasing domination of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, which is the largest, richest, most powerful, and most conservative, diocese in Australia. and arguably the most conservative in worldwide Anglicanism.

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else [PB] Available
Helen Caldicott
In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have increasingly begun to look for alternative energy sources-and their leading choice is nuclear energy.

On Beauty, On Series [HB] Available
Susan Johnson
In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: 'Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty.

On Digestion, On Series [HB] Available
Gay Bilson
From the bestselling author of Plenty comes a thoughtful meditation on food and writing.

On Doubt, On Series [HB] Available
Leigh Sales
In this personal essay, one of Australia's most respected journalists argues in favour of a doubtful mind.

On Ecstasy, On Series [HB] Available
Barrie Kosky
In this vivid, biographical piece, provocative director Barrie Kosky explores the feelings of intense joy and delight, as well as the power and terror, that is ecstasy.

On Experience, On Series [HB] Available
David Malouf
In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life.

On Humbug, On Series [HB] Available
Robert Dessaix
With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world.

On Indignation, On Series [HB] Available
Don Watson
With characteristic wit , Don Watson explores indignation through generations of his family and their Old Testament rages.

On Longing, On Series [HB] Available
Blanche d'Alpuget
Blanche d'Alpuget's intimate and revealing meditation on longing examines the creative tension between writing and love.

On Luck, On Series [HB] Available
Anne Summers
Australia has always prided itself on its luck.
In her challenging, provocative essay Anne Summers picks apart this cherished belief, and suggests that maybe we can do better.

On Obsession, On Series [HB] Available
Malcolm Knox
Novelist Malcolm Knox unpicks obsession in all its manifold forms across time and place.

On Privilege, On Series [HB] Available
Julian Burnside
In this powerful broadside that takes in politicians and infamous legal cases, Julian Burnside asks what is privilege and who has it?

On Rage, On Series [HB] Available
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer's passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate.

On Resilience, On Series [HB] Available
Elisabeth Wynhausen
A humorous, irreverent essay that arrives at contentment and joy.

Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
John Halligan, Robin Miller and John Power
Awards: Winner of the Richard Baker Senate Prize 2007.
Parliament in the Twenty-first Century is an invaluable resource for students of Australian parliament and for all those interested in how parliamentary institutions adapt to change.
Academic Monograph

Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
John Halligan, Robin Miller and John Power
Parliament in the Twenty-first Century is an invaluable resource for students of Australian parliament and for all those interested in how parliamentary institutions adapt to change.
Academic Monograph

The Politics of Everyday Life [PB] Available
Paul Ginsborg
Concern over the present state of the world-its tensions and disparities-fosters in many people the uneasy combination of two sensations: urgency and powerlessness.

The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus [PB] Available
Peter Sutton
The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.

The Question of Zion [PB] Available
Jacqueline Rose
For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia [PB] Available
Gideon Haigh
A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.

Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Jacqueline Dickenson
Renegades and Rats traces betrayal in the labour movements of Britain and Australia through the careers of activists as diverse as H. H. Champion, W. A. Trenwith, John Burns and Adela Pankhurst Walsh.
Academic Monograph

Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the remaking of radical organisations in Britain and Australia, 1840-1940, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Jacqueline Dickenson
Accusations of betrayal played a significant role in the shaping and maintenance of solidarity in socialist and other modern radical political organisations in Australia and Britain.
Academic Monograph

Righteous Violence: The ethics and politics of military intervention [PB] Available
Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe (eds)
This topical book asks whether it is ethical to intervene militarily in humanitarian crises, particularly when they occur in nation states alienated from the international community.

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, Second edition [PB] Available
Judith Brett
Awards: 1993 Ernest Scott prize
1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies
Joint winner of the 1993 NSW Premier's Prize for Nonfiction
The new edition of Judith Brett's award-winning book, providing compelling insight into Menzies and his era.

Traumascapes: The power and fate of places transformed by tragedy [PB] Available
Maria Tumarkin
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards' Prize for a First Book of History.
Traumascapes is a deeply-felt and wonderfully intelligent exploration of international sites where traumas of great magnitude have occurred.

The War Over Work: The Future of Work and Family [PB] Available
Don Edgar
Many workers are caught in a spiral of longer hours, growing job insecurity, work stress and family conflict.

Your Most Obedient Servant: B.A. Santamaria Selected Letters: 1938-1996 [HB] Available
Patrick Morgan (ed.)
Bob Santamaria was involved in Australian public life from before World War II until his death in 1998.
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