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Book Cover:  Freakonomics
One of today's most original thinkers turns our view of the world upside down . . .

Life can be baffling and chaotic, and sometimes it's hard to make sense of it all. The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport...

One of today's most original thinkers turns our view of the world upside down . . .

Life can be baffling and chaotic, and sometimes it's hard to make sense of it all. The answer, explains groundbreaking...

Published: 05/06/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141019017
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: The Australian Moment
Australia appears to be the best-equipped nation to deal with the ongoing rumblings of the Great Recession. To what degree is that good fortune or good planning? A groundbreaking work on our government and character by one of our most respected journalists.
Australia appears to be the best-equipped nation to deal with the ongoing rumblings of the Great Recession. To what degree is that good fortune or good planning? A groundbreaking work on our government and character by one of our most respected journalists.
Published: 22/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075218
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  110 Per Cent: Great Australian Sporting Speeches
Ranging from the eloquent and stirring to the downright funny, these are Australia's greatest sporting moments, seen through the eyes of the winners and losers, experts and legends of all our favourite sports.
Ranging from the eloquent and stirring to the downright funny, these are Australia's greatest sporting moments, seen through the eyes of the winners and losers, experts and legends of all our favourite sports.
Published: 29/08/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075676
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Crimes Against Humanity: Popular Penguins
Geoffrey Robertson's Crimes Against Humanity is a superb and highly influential account of the history of the human rights movement up to the present day. From the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, Robertson traces the developing concept of human rights and shows how far we still have to go. His inspiring narrative is both a masterly history and a clarion...
Geoffrey Robertson's Crimes Against Humanity is a superb and highly influential account of the history of the human rights movement up to the present day. From the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials...
Published: 01/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141037288
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment

In issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, corporate power, and the future of American politics. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. 'Progressive legislation and social welfare,' writes Chomsky, 'have been won by popular...

In issues including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama's presidency, the limits of the two-party system, nuclear Iran, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, corporate power, and the future of American politics...

Published: 22/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241145111
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  On China
Presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger's conversations with each of them.
Presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger's conversations with each of them.
Published: 19/05/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781846143465
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  One Hundred Days of Summer: How we got to where we are
Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable style, this is a very personal book about the recent period of intense political change in Australia.
Written in Bob Ellis's inimitable style, this is a very personal book about the recent period of intense political change in Australia.
Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670074730
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Enemies: A History of the FBI
By Tim Weiner

'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy  must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once.'  President Woodrow Wilson, 1919

'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy  must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once.'  President Woodrow Wilson, 1919

Published: 10/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846146312
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  How the World Works
By Noam Chomsky

THE ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION TO CHOMSKY'S POLITICAL IDEAS

With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections, originally published in the US only as individual short books, collectively selling over half a million copies, How the World Works covers:

WHAT UNCLE SAM REALLY WANTS:
 the main...




THE ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION TO CHOMSKY'S POLITICAL IDEAS

With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into...

Published: 08/11/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241145395
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Utopia
By Thomas More
In Utopia , More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means 'no place' and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as 'dispenser of nonsense'. This fantastical tale masks what is a serious and subversive analysis of the failings of More's society. Advocating instead a world in which there is religious tolerance, provision for the aged and state ownership...
In Utopia , More paints a vision of the customs and practices of a distant island, but Utopia means 'no place' and his narrator's name, Hythlodaeus, translates as 'dispenser of nonsense'. This fantastical...
Published: 05/05/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140449105
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
By Richard McGregor

'Superb . . . an essential, riveting guide to how the rising power really works' 
Jonathan Fenby

'Marvellous . . . should be read by anyone doing business with or just trying to understand China'
Bill Emmott

'Superb . . . an essential, riveting guide to how the rising power really works' 
Jonathan Fenby

'Marvellous . . . should be read by anyone doing business with or just trying to understand China'...

Published: 01/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141038858
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assault on Gaza and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward - in the so-called democratic...

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism...

Published: 07/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141045306
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By Joon-Ha Chang

'This Cambridge professor delights in paradox. And myth-busting . . . he does this with charm and a desire to see how things work in the real world'
Guardian , 'In Praise of Ha-Joon Chang'

'This Cambridge professor delights in paradox. And myth-busting . . . he does this with charm and a desire to see how things work in the real world'
Guardian , 'In Praise of Ha-Joon Chang'

Published: 07/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141047973
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Swimming with Sharks: Tales from the South Pacific Frontline

'On the last day, we flew out to Manono aboard an RNZAF Iroquois. The doors were open and the beauty of Samoa was literally beneath our feet. I have always known it to be a fragile kind of place: tsunamis, like all the other disasters, big and small, show that we have a pact with nature to enjoy 'paradise'. Sometimes nature reasserts supremacy and paradise becomes a nightmare.'

 

'On the last day, we flew out to Manono aboard an RNZAF Iroquois. The doors were open and the beauty of Samoa was literally beneath our feet. I have always known it to be a fragile kind of place: tsunamis...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143203735
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Spy Book
By Dorling Kindersley

Welcome to the world of espionage.

Inside the cool novelty covers, we turn our magnifying glass on spies, snoops, and spooks throughout history in The Spy Book . Eavesdrop on the incredible tales of daring, explore top-secret gadgets, and find out why espionage still hits the headlines.

Code breakers and safe crackers, spy rings and honey traps, dead drops and lipstick pistols all lurk inside. Confidentially...



Welcome to the world of espionage.

Inside the cool novelty covers, we turn our magnifying glass on spies, snoops, and spooks throughout history in The Spy Book . Eavesdrop on the incredible tales of daring...

Published: 28/11/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405368209
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Backstage Politics: Fifty Years of Political Memories
Backstage Politics takes us on a funny, insightful and revealing journey through the Australian political landscape.
Backstage Politics takes us on a funny, insightful and revealing journey through the Australian political landscape.
Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670073849
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World

Gabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke – and also works for the Metropolitan Police, Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogotá who gets his stash from a sweathouse.  Ricky Ross, king of the 'Walmart of Crack', has made a fortune dealing.  Belica started picking coca when she was eleven.  Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, thanks legalization's the only way . ...

Gabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke – and also works for the Metropolitan Police, Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogotá who gets his stash from a sweathouse.  Ricky Ross, king...

Published: 16/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141034461
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

'Packed with thinking dynamite . . . a book to be read everywhere' JOHN BERGER

'If you only read one non-fiction book this year, make it this one' METRO, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM . . .

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our...


'Packed with thinking dynamite . . . a book to be read everywhere' JOHN BERGER

'If you only read one non-fiction book this year, make it this one' METRO, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM...


Published: 02/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141024530
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Making of Julia Gillard: Prime Minister
The Making of Julia Gillard is an insightful and immensely readable account of this remarkable woman.
The Making of Julia Gillard is an insightful and immensely readable account of this remarkable woman.
Published: 29/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075348
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
By Alex Danchev

Selected with an Introduction by
Alex Danchev

'The Manifesto is remarkable for its imaginative power . . . it is the first great modernist work of art'
Marshall Berman

In this remarkable collection of 100 manifestos from the last 100 years, Alex Danchev presents the cacophony of voices of such diverse movements as Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Feminism, Communism, Destructivism, Vorticism...

Selected with an Introduction by
Alex Danchev

'The Manifesto is remarkable for its imaginative power . . . it is the first great modernist work of art'
Marshall Berman

In this remarkable collection...

Published: 07/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141191799
RRP: $26.95

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08 Feb 2012
USBBY annual list of outstanding international books

Selected for the 2012 United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY) list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults.

The Garden of Empress Cassia by Gabrielle Wang

The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett

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