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The Other
Price: AUD 25.95 Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

In this collection of essays by the late Ryszard Kapuscinski, the concept of "the other" is explored. Levinas' phrase "the self is only possible through the recognition of the Other" is taken by Kapuscinski as the starting point to discuss and analyse the white European response to different cultures.

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Keynes: The Return of the Master
Price: AUD 45.00 Author: Robert Skidelsky

John Maynard Keynes' theories are enjoying somewhat of a renaissance as economies falter around the world. Consider his three seminal views – the future is uncertain, holding money is a hedge against uncertainty, and economies remain depressed when govern

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Kill Khalid
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Paul McGeough

Khalid Abu Hilal was Fatah commander until his defection to Hamas. He was also the subject of an incredible assassination assignment for five men who purported to be Canadian tourists but were in fact Mossad agents. Paul McGeough takes this moment in time and from it outlines the complicated, unrelenting, and seemingly unanswerable problems besetting Israel and Palestine.

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The Statute of Liberty
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Geoffrey Robertson

Staff Review by Mary: If for no other reason, all of us who have lived through recent years and the politics of those years should read this book and in particular the sentences “We have given our children nothing they can recite with pride, except the doggerel in the national anthem, whose second verse we have a mental block about singing, for fear its words might encourage asylum seekers. This is regrettable for a nation that began its connection with the world as an open prison, and in due course made a ‘fresh start’…..” As evidenced by this excerpt, Robertson is at his most unflinching in putting forward his view on the need or otherwise for a charter of human rights for Australia.

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Trade Unionism In Australia
Price: AUD 49.95 Author: Tom Bramble

The history of unionism in Australia straddles all sectors and, in recent decades, has encapsulated pivotal moments in the life of successive governments. This is a thorough examination of unionism right up to the present day. It also sets out some possible strategies for the future of unionism in this country.

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Bringing Nothing To The Party
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Paul Carr

Paul Carr was working as a journalist but desperately wanted to become part of the new crowd - the Internet boys who were entrepreneurs and party-goers of the highest order. This 'new media' world lured him in and gave him access to the people at the centre of the dot.com boom. He details the experience in this book and traces his own attempts at creating new internet businesses.

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Man Of The People
Price: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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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The Logic of Life: Discovering the New Economics of Everything
Price: AUD 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: AUD 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: AUD 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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Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law, and Justice
Price: AUD 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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