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 | FATHER OF THE HOUSE: The memoirs of Kim E. Beazley
Foreword by Kim C. Beazley
Long-serving federal MP Kim Beazley Snr tells how his Christian faith inspired him to take sometimes unpopular stands on great issues of his day, such as supporting Aboriginal rights and state aid to non-government schools, and opposing abortion.
Paperback, 336 pages, $27.95
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 | THE ELEPHANT HUNTERS: Chronicles of the Money Men
Amielle Lake, Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse
The authors interview the moneymen and 'powerbitches' of high finance who, until the recent economic crash, held undisputed sway in the financial world. Fascinating and horrifying, the book lays bare the curious mixture of ambition, avarice and sometimes altruism that motivates these masters of the universe.
Hardcover, 184 pages, $50.00
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 | SMART SEX: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World
Jennifer Roback Morse
Fear is at the heart of the sexual revolution - fear of other people, fear of relationship, fear of permanence. Strong, enduring marriages, argues Dr Morse, are essential for the survival of the free society, not to mention basic human happiness.
Hardcover, 263 pages, $36.00
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 | FATAL MISCONCEPTION: The Struggle to Control World Population
Matthew Connelly
A Columbia University historian provides the first global history of the powerful population control movement, whose flawed social engineering policies and biological totalitarianism culminated in the horrors of sterilisation camps in India and the one-child policy in China.
Hardcover, 528 pages, $87.95
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 | HEROES: From Alexander the Great to Mae West
Paul Johnson
This delightful, fascinating and unputdownable book by historian and journalist Paul Johnson depicts heroic individuals from all ages of history. It is strewn with vivid detail, shrewd insights and unforgettable anecdotes.
Hardcover, 297 pages, $59.95
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 | WARSAW 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe
Adam Zamoyski
In the summer of 1920, at the gates of Warsaw, there took place a battle that ranks alongside Marathon and Waterloo for its importance in history. Yet the story of how Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism from Russia to Western Europe has been largely forgotten.
Paperback, 224 pages, $28.00
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 | HARD JACKA: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend
Michael Lawriwsky
This highly acclaimed and insightful historical novel brings to life the legend-ary Albert Jacka, VC, whose bravery at Gallipoli and in northern France would win him the unswerving loyalty of his mates. With a foreword by General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (retd).
Paperback, 543 pages, $24.95
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 | J.R.R. TOLKIEN: Myth, Morality and Religion
Richard Purtill
Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasy fiction, unlike much modern literature, has the extraordinary ability to touch readers' lives. This important and highly readable study by Richard Purtill, author of 19 books, reveals that Tolkien's stories incorporate profound religious and ethical ideas.
Paperback, 217 pages, $27.95
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 | ECONOMIC FACTS AND FALLACIES
Thomas Sowell
No prior knowledge of economics is required to enjoy Sowell's lively, and at times humorous, examination of widely-held economic fallacies about such things as urban problems, income differences, male-female economic differences, Third World poverty and race.
Hardcover, 272 pages, $52.00
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 | LABOUR AND JUSTICE: The worker in Catholic social teaching
Gavan Duffy
Author of the acclaimed study, Demons and Democrats: 1950s Labor at the Crossroads (2002), Gavan Duffy provides a comprehensive history of the Catholic Church's teachings on labour and capital, and demonstrates that today's globalised world needs to apply these teachings more than ever.
Paperback, 300 pages, $45.00
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 | POPULATION CONTROL: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits
Steven W. Mosher
In his latest fact-filled book, Mosher offers a sober warning about how population-control zealots are using draconian methods and implementing eugenics policies in their push to curb human numbers. He documents the horrendous human rights violations that are occurring in the name of fertility control.
Paperback, 344 pages, $59.90
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 | THE LITTLE BLACK SCHOOLBOOK
Mark Lopez
This sensational book does for education what Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince did for politics. It shows students how the Left-dominated education system really works, so that they can turn their teachers' political biases to their advantage and score top marks.
Paperback, 194 pages, $29.95
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 | COMMON SENSE 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton
Dale Ahlquist
The author, president of the American Chesterton Society, teaches us in this book how to 'look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton', the most quoted writer of the 20th century, whose writings encompassed detective fiction, humour, history, philosophy, spirituality and paradox.
Paperback, 316 pages, $44.00
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 | THIRD WAYS: Family-centred economies and why they disappeared
Allan Carlson
A leading American scholar and family activist canvasses a long-ignored and largely forgotten public policy tradition that is neither the untrammelled free market nor socialism, but which champions the 'natural' communities of family, neighbourhood and village.
Hardcover, 225 pages, $45.00
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 | SANTAMARIA: RUNNING THE SHOW: Selected Documents 1939-1996
Edited by Patrick Morgan
A copious collection of documents from the long career of political commentator and activist B.A. (Bob) Santamaria. This is the companion volume to the earlier B.A. Santamaria: Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters 1938-1996, also edited by Patrick Morgan.
Hardback, 520 pages, $59.95
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