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Book Cover:  Capital Volume 1
Published: 24/01/1991
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445688
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Early Writings
Published: 07/04/1992
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445749
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  On Government
By Cicero
These pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic s most enlightened thinker.
These pioneering writings on the mechanics, tactics, and strategies of government were devised by the Roman Republic s most enlightened thinker.
Published: 03/11/1993
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140445954
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Thomas Paine Reader
By Thomas Paine
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's major works including The Rights of Man , his groundbreaking defence of the revolutionary cause in France, Common...
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and...
Published: 02/11/1987
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140444964
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  On War
By Clausewitz Carl Von
War...is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will'
War...is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will'
Published: 01/11/1982
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140444278
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: A Discourse on Inequality
By Jean-jacques Rousseau
'How can we know the source of inequality among men if we do not first have knowledge of men themselves?'

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege.

'How can we know the source of inequality among men if we do not first have knowledge of men themselves?'

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts...

Published: 31/12/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140444391
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  Leviathan
By Thomas Hobbes

The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes's answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry: he argues from first principles to human nature to politics.

This book's appeal to the twentieth...

The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes's answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its...

Published: 01/05/1982
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140431957
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover: The Rights of Man
By Thomas Paine

One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditious issues. In his introduction Eric Foner presents an overview...

One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful...

Published: 01/06/1986
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140390155
RRP: $9.95
Book Cover:  When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End  of the Western World
By Martin Jacques

Soon China will rule the world.

But in doing so, it will not become more 'Western'.

Martin Jacques' celebrated book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be economic, but cultural. As China's powerful civilization reasserts itself, it will signal the end of the global dominance of the Western nation-state, and a future of 'contested modernity'...



Soon China will rule the world.

But in doing so, it will not become more 'Western'.

Martin Jacques' celebrated book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact...



Published: 01/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276046
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  One Hundred Days of Summer
Published: 28/07/2010
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742531014
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:  Citizen U.S.A.
By Alexandra Pelosi

The stories, interviews, and pictures behind the acclaimed HBO® documentary by Emmy® Award winner Alexandra Pelosi

TAKE A NATIONWIDE ROAD TRIP WITH AN AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER AND AMERICA'S NEWEST CITIZENS.

Buddhist monks, homosexuals, scientists with PhDs, cancer patients, Obama haters, Obama lovers, Muslim imams, Christian missionaries, tech geniuses, movie directors, and a wrestler with...


The stories, interviews, and pictures behind the acclaimed HBO® documentary by Emmy® Award winner Alexandra Pelosi

TAKE A NATIONWIDE ROAD TRIP WITH AN AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER AND AMERICA'S NEWEST...

Published: 13/09/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780451235398
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  cOMMON sENSE
By Thomas Paine
Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and to set up an independent republican government. Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality...
Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and to set up an independent...
Published: 16/06/1998
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140390162
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  Risk: the Science and Politics of Fear
By Dan Gardner

In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Gardner explores a new way of thinking about the decisions we make

We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing, with deadly consequences - such as the 1,595 Americans killed when they made the mistake of switching from planes to cars after September 11. In part, this irrationality is caused by those - politicians...

In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Gardner explores a new way of thinking about the decisions we make

We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing...

Published: 05/05/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921215674
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resource Frenzy
Published: 01/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955706
RRP: $24.99
Book Cover: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
By David Mamet

'My interests in politics began when I noticed that I acted differently than I spoke, that I had seen 'the government' commit sixty years of fairly unrelieved and catastrophic error nationally and internationally, that I not only hated every wasted hard-earned cent I spent in taxes, but the trauma and misery the produced...'

'My interests in politics began when I noticed that I acted differently than I spoke, that I had seen 'the government' commit sixty years of fairly unrelieved and catastrophic error nationally and internationally...

Published: 13/07/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781595230768
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Centennial Edition)
By Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils...

The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes...

Published: 01/08/1987
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451147950
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover: The Captive Mind
By Czeslaw Milosz
Written in Paris in 1951, while he was in exile from his native Poland, Milosz's denunciation of Stalinism outraged many European intellectuals at a time when they were becoming drawn to the politics of Communist Russia. However, it is now acknowledged as a classic work against totalitarianism, standing alongside those of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn.

The Captive Mind analyses the power of tyrannical regimes...

Written in Paris in 1951, while he was in exile from his native Poland, Milosz's denunciation of Stalinism outraged many European intellectuals at a time when they were becoming drawn to the politics of...
Published: 11/02/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141186764
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Orwell & Politics
This major new collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his evergreen satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm .
This major new collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his evergreen satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm .
Published: 26/06/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141185187
RRP: $28.00

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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