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Man Of The People
Price: $19.95 Author: Paul Alexander

As we go to print with this guide, Paris Hilton has released an advertisement taking on John McCain, which has to say something about world politics in this century. A revised and updated look at this Presidential hopeful written by journalist Paul Alexander who has studied the man at close quarters. The closeness of the Presidential race makes this interesting and timely reading.

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Globality
Price: $35.00 Author: Harold L Sirkin et al

Three business partners set out in this book to explain the difference between globalisation and globality. At its centre, globality is the reality of today's business. Anyone, anywhere, at any time can be engaging in business regardless of old barriers of time, distance, and regulation. Of particular interest is the pointer to our having to acknowledge that concepts of East and West, developed and developing countries, is similarly defunct in this new business world.

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Bitter Chocolate
Price: $34.95 Author: Carol Off

This Canadian reporter brings all her investigative energy to uncovering the truth behind the prettily wrapped chocolate industry. The tale is one of abuse, violence and worse, all in the pursuit of a multi-million dollar prize.

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Dinner with Mugabe
Price: $35.00 Author: Heidi Holland

The first encounter between the author and Mugabe was thirty years ago when he was then the freedom fighter and hope for his country. To read this account, which includes a recent meeting between the two, is to fully appreciate the tragedy of both the ind

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The Second World: Empire and Influence in the New Global Order
Price: $65.00 Author: Parag Khanna

The Second World, as defined by the author, is Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East, and East Asia. It is here, he believes, we should be watching as these regions combine to create the new power base of this century. He argues tha

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My Friend the Fanatic
Price: $34.95 Author: Sadanand Dhume

Beginning in the aftermath of the Bali bombings, this is the story of two men travelling through Indonesia and trying to make sense of each other - one an Indian foreign correspondent, the other a young Islamist.

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Typo: The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost Four Million Dollars
Price: $35.00 Author: David Silverman

David Silverman, a young energetic entrepreneur took his father's life savings to buy his dream company - a fifty year old typesetting company - and build a new corporation. Success quickly turned to failure. This is his story and it is the antithesis of

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The Airport Economist
Price: $24.95 Author: Tim Harcourt

Tim is the chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission. He takes us along for the ride on his never-ending international travels as he finds new markets for Australian business and new ways for Australians to do business.

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A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You were Born to Do
Price: $35.00 Author: Thomas Moore

A softer, gentler view of the cut-throat world of commerce and employment. Moore starts from the premise that what you do, whether or not you believe it, is never simply just a job. Your decisions contribute to your life's story and Moore therefore believ

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American Journeys
Price: $49.95 Author: Don Watson

Staff Review by Mary D: As the reader would expect, this is a most erudite account of one man's journey through the American landscape. Watson's ability to encapsulate profound ideas in simple, clear language is unrivalled. His journey by rail and car across America provides a window into the America of the past and present, and is undertaken at a time of enormous import for the country beginning as it does in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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The New Rome?: the Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Price: $27.95 Author: Cullen Murphy

Murphy takes pivotal aspects of today's America and relects on their relevance to the equivalent situation in Roman times. Be it an over-stretched military, a tendency to look inwards, or a governing body that is increasingly arrogant and ignorant in equal parts of the world over which it has such inluence.

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The Selfish Capitalist
Price: $34.95 Author: Oliver James

With much of the English-speaking world so afflicted, James lays the blame squarely on the governments of the day who have, in his view, systematically adopted a 'selfish capitalist' mentality. He identifies the general public malaise as a consequence of government policy and action that has allowed 'the haves' to have more, at the direct expense of the vast majority of the population.

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The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya
Price: $35.00 Author: Asne Seierstad

Whilst the world's eyes have focused elsewhere, the devastation and horror continues; over ten percent of the population have been killed and a brutalised society left behind. Providing the reader with an overview of the violent history of this land, Seierstad also tells her personal story.

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Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
Price: $24.95 Author: Amartya Sen

In a world awash with labels Sen reminds us that human society is in fact a series of complex intersocietal relationships.

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The Logic of Life: Discovering the New Economics of Everything
Price: $35.00 Author: Tim Harford

This book will challenge your ideas and perceptions. There is a rational aspect to everything, be it a decision taken by the individual to behave in a certain manner or the decisions of government and corporations.

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Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Price: $59.95 Author: David Reynolds

Reynolds draws on the analogy of scaling the world's heights to achieve the ultimate success to examine those meetings between world leaders that have changed our lives and the world.

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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Price: $32.95 Author: Joe Bageant

Bageant tells of the Australian who suggested to him that we should be grateful that we got the convicts and America got the puritans. This book would seem to be a timely if acerbic look at what makes America tick and how that might relate to our Australi

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The End of America
Price: $24.95 Author: Naomi Wolf

Wolf acknowledges her country is engaged in a war, but her 'war' is the war on democracy. She invokes Ralph Waldo Emerson to introduce her work: 'we began with freedom'. She eruditely states her case.

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Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law, and Justice
Price: $32.95 Author: Julian Burnside

Staff Review by Mary: Whilst I would not presume to say I know Mr. Burnside, I am acquainted with his work, have invited him to literary events we have organised, and been fortunate enough to hear him speak on many occasions. One measure of the health or

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The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
Price: $99.95 Author: Galligan and Roberts

The usual Oxford University Press authoritative authorship and comprehensive entry detail is applied to this account of Australian politics.

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Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development
Price: $34.95 Author: Joseph E Stiglitz & Andrew Charlton

This revised edition once again highlights the urgency for trade reform.

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The Audacity of Hope
Price: $34.95 Author: Barack Obama

Obama, politician and possible next President of the United States, offers a vision of the future that involves restoring a government that has fallen out of touch with the people.

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The Assault on Reason
Price: $32.95 Author: Al Gore

An analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy and cronyism, combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment hostile to reason.

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Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Price: $35.00 Author: Nassim Nichola Taleb

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three basic characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishi

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On the Wealth of Nations
Price: $24.95 Author: P.J. O'Rourke

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, the book that created the field of economics, is transformed into a page-turner by America's sharpest political commentator.

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Last Oil Shock
Price: $35.00 Author: David Strahan

Strahan argues that the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and just as urgent as climate change.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
Price: $49.95 Author: Tariq Ali

The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chavez, Ali shows how Cha

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