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 | DUMBING DOWN: Outcomes-based and politically correct
Kevin Donnelly
Renowned education expert Dr Kevin Donnelly exposes the shoddiness of current trendy teaching methods and the perils of non-competitive assessment which have combined to produce a generation of under-educated Australians.
Paperback, 256 pages, $24.95
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 | AMERICA ALONE: The end of the world as we know it
Mark Steyn
The hilarious, provocative and brilliant Mark Steyn - the most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking world - demonstrates how the West's policies of multiculturalism, PC, the welfare state and childlessness are consigning its civilisation to oblivion and aiding the rise of militant Islam.
Hardcover, 256 pages, $49.95
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 | INSIDE THE ASYLUM: Why the United Nations and Old Europe are worse than you think
Jed Babbin
A former US deputy undersecretary of defense argues that the UN is more of an international criminal than a dispenser of international law. Its credentials are in tatters after the Iraq oil-for-food scam. Its diplomatic stalling tactics work against the enforcement of international law, thus making the world a more dangerous place.
Hardcover, 196 pages, $58.95
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 | THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO ISLAM (and the Crusades)
Robert Spencer
Everything (well, almost everything) you know about Islam and the Crusades is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academics and Islamic apologists. This book is the antidote to these errors.
Paperback, 270 pages, $38.95
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 | GENTLE REGRETS: Thoughts from a Life
Roger Scruton
In this delightful and readable collection of articles and essays, Britain's foremost conservative thinker provides a fascinating commentary on our times. Partly autobiographical, this book is rich in hard-won wisdom.
Paperback, 256 pages, $38.95
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 | B.A. SANTAMARIA: Your most obedient servant. Selected letters: 1938-1996.
edited by Patrick Morgan
The letters of Australia's famous political commentator B.A. Santamaria cover his extraordinary 60 years in public life, revealing both the personal and professional sides of his character. His correspondents included prime ministers, eminent churchmen, media magnates and social commentators.
Hardback, 575 pages, $49.95
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 | HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BUILT WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.,
Dr Woods shows how no institution has done more to shape Western civilisation than the Catholic Church. It gave birth to modern science, invented the university, established the principles of Western law and humanised the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life.
Hardback, 280 pages, $54.95
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 | ADVANCING THE CULTURE OF DEATH: Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Peter Tran
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide loom large in today's debates on bioethics. Dr Peter Tran provides a highly readable analysis of these debates and a response from Catholic moral theology. Includes a preface by His Eminence, Cardinal George Pell.
Softcover, 244 pages, $20.00
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 | THE CAMPION SOCIETY and Catholic social militancy in Australia 1929-1939
Colin H. Jory
The Campion Society was one of the most extraordinary movements to arise between the wars and represented Australian Catholicism in one of its most vigorous phases.
Hardcover, 146 pages, $15.00
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