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Book Cover: The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914
By Robert Bickers

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a European to speak Chinese could be executed. But as new technology began to unbalance the relationship, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. China should be opened, they believed...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a...

Published: 17/03/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713997491
RRP: $55.00
Book Cover:  Beyond Human Nature
By Jesse Prinz

Beyond Human Nature is a book about us all - and how we all live our lives, differently.

Beyond Human Nature is a book about us all - and how we all live our lives, differently.

Published: 07/03/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713998177
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935 -2005
By Phil Baines
Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled with detail of individual titles, designers and even the changing size and shape of the Penguin logo itself, this book shows how covers become design classics.

By looking back at seventy years of Penguin...

Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled...
Published: 01/07/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780713998399
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
By David Stevenson

Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in 1940, 'During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers . . . we repeatedly asked ourselves the question: How are we going to win?'.

Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in 1940, 'During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after...

Published: 06/07/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713998405
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Here Comes Trouble
Before he became an Oscar-winning filmmaker and all-round thorn-in-the-side of corporate America, it turns out that throughout his life Michael Moore had an uncanny knack for showing up just where history was being made.
Before he became an Oscar-winning filmmaker and all-round thorn-in-the-side of corporate America, it turns out that throughout his life Michael Moore had an uncanny knack for showing up just where history was being made.
Published: 28/09/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780713998665
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Of the figures who tower over twentieth century American history, perhaps none is more complex, more multifaceted and controversial, than Malcolm X.
Of the figures who tower over twentieth century American history, perhaps none is more complex, more multifaceted and controversial, than Malcolm X.
Published: 13/05/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713998955
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
By Lizzie Collingham

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War.

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War.

Published: 07/03/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713999648
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Together
By Richard Sennett

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today.  Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves.  Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of complexity...

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today.  Though our society is becoming ever more complicated...

Published: 07/03/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713998740
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover: The Birth of Classical Europe. A History From Troy to Augustine
By Simon Price & Peter Thonemann

To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world.  At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.

To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world.  At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe'...

Published: 15/06/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713992427
RRP: $69.95
Book Cover:  When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End  of the Western World
By Martin Jacques

For over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern was synonymous with being western. This original and ground-breaking new book argues that the twenty-first century will be different. With the rise of increasingly powerful non-Western countries, the west will no longer be dominant and there will be many ways of being modern. In this new era...

For over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern was synonymous with being western. This original and ground-breaking new book argues that the...

Published: 24/07/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713992540
RRP: $69.95
Book Cover: The Beginning of Infinity

Old ways of thought permitted no process such as science for correcting errors and misconceptions. So ideas were static for long periods. Being bad explanations, even the best of them typically had little reach and were therefore brittle and unreliable beyond, and often within, their traditional applications. When ideas did change, it was seldom for the better, and when it did happen to be...

Old ways of thought permitted no process such as science for correcting errors and misconceptions. So ideas were static for long periods. Being bad explanations, even the best of them typically had...

Published: 29/04/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713992748
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen
By Hans Christian Andersen
With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius is revealed. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly original stories that sprang directly from his imagination.
With this new translation and selection, the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius is revealed. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized...
Published: 08/12/2004
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713996418
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. The patrons of the church competed to have the leading artists of the day in their households, and the artists...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon...

Published: 23/08/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713996746
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora
By T M Devine

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, the United States and elsewhere, the Scottish contribution to the development of the modern world has been a formidable one, from finance to industry, philosophy...

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable...

Published: 07/10/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713997446
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations
By Charles Nicholl

In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time.  

His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the disappearance of Jim Thompson in 1960s Malaya, from the boyhood of Christopher Marlowe to the...

In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical...

Published: 06/01/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713994940
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  God's Jury
By Cullen Murphy

For centuries states have used their power to censor information, to conduct surveillance, to impose belief, to manipulate and to punish. Cullen Murphy's extraordinary, provocative new book explores the idea that the Inquisition - the Catholic body that existed in Europe and beyond for over 700 years - is not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with the creation of the modern world.

For centuries states have used their power to censor information, to conduct surveillance, to impose belief, to manipulate and to punish. Cullen Murphy's extraordinary, provocative new book explores the...

Published: 16/04/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713995343
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover: The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings: The Must-HaveCDs and DVDs
By Ivan March & Edward Greenfield

Downloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today - but  how do you pick your way through the staggering array of music now on offer?

Downloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today - but  how do you pick your way through the staggering array of music now on offer?

Published: 18/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241955949
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings: The Must HaveCDs and DVDs
By Ivan March & Edward Greenfield

We live in a golden age for classical music. Never before has it been possible to access such a staggering array of performances. Through downloads, CDs and DVD listeners can access music from the medieval period to the modern, played by groups and individuals from around the world, and recorded at any point since the invention of recording itself.

We live in a golden age for classical music. Never before has it been possible to access such a staggering array of performances. Through downloads, CDs and DVD listeners can access music from the medieval...

Published: 07/11/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241955253
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Moonwalking with Einstein
By Joshua Foer

'If you want to understand how we remember, and how we can all learn to remember better, then read this book'  Jonah Lehrer 

Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we...

'If you want to understand how we remember, and how we can all learn to remember better, then read this book'  Jonah Lehrer 

Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most...

Published: 15/03/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141032139
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
By Steve Coll

In  Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive  ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of the power wielded by a  company whose annual revenues are larger than the total economic activity in  most countries. In many of the nations where it operates, ExxonMobil has a  greater sway than that of the US embassy, and in Washington it spends more...

In  Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive  ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of the power wielded by a  company whose annual revenues are larger...

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846146596
RRP: $45.00

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16 May 2012
2012 John Button Prize - longlisted

The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis.

The prize winner will be announced at the John Button Oration to be held with the Melbourne Writers' Festival in August.

For more information please visit: http://johnbuttonprize.org.au

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