I AM MELBA: A Biography
Ann Blainey
Nellie Melba was Australia's first international superstar. Her long career as an opera singer embraced the old world and the modern. She was also a great patriot who never forgot her Australian roots. Ann Blainey has produced a worthy and readable biography of her.
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AN AWKWARD TRUTH: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Peter Grose
Absorbing, spirited and fast-paced, this book describes the Japanese attack on Darwin - the first wartime assault on Australian soil. The Japanese struck with the same carrier-borne force that had devastated Pearl Harbor only 10 weeks earlier. There was a difference. More bombs fell on Darwin, more civilians were killed, and more ships were sunk.
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SOLAR CYCLE 24
David Archibald
A Perth scientist details how the sun, not carbon dioxide, controls climate. This study comes in an attractive coffee-table book format, and is illustrated with numerous charts and tables. It is endorsed by Professors Bob Carter and Ian Plimer, and contains a foreword by British environmentalist and broadcaster Professor David Bellamy.
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THE HORNET'S STING: The Amazing Untold Story of Second World War Spy Thomas Sneum
Mark Ryan
This page-turning and remarkable true story tells of a young Danish pilot who escaped from his German-occupied homeland, flew to Britain and was sent back to Denmark as a spy.
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111 QUESTIONS ON ISLAM
Samir Khalil Samir, SJ
This book is the result of extended interviews between an internationally acclaimed expert on Islam and two journalists who have dedicated themselves for many years to studying key themes of Islam and to analysing the conditions for a constructive encounter between Christians and Muslims.
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HEAVEN AND EARTH - Global Warming: the Missing Science
Ian Plimer
Climate, sea level and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes of today are less than those of the past. During past glaciations, carbon dioxide was far higher than today. Thus argues eminent Australian geologist Professor Ian Plimer as he challenges the prevailing dogma of human-induced global warming.
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BOYS SHOULD BE BOYS: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
Meg Meeker, MD
Paediatrician and author of the acclaimed Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, Dr Meeker says that boys nowadays face an increasingly hostile world that doesn't value their unique gifts, that discounts their masculine virtues, and that undermines what they need to become men.
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GIRLS LIKE YOU: Four Young Girls, Six Brothers and a Cultural Timebomb
Paul Sheehan
This challenging and angry book, about a series of Sydney trials of three Muslim brothers charged with raping teenage girls, is unapologetic about condemning political correctness and our adversarial judicial system for turning justice upside down.
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THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE
G.K. Chesterton
Here, in a deluxe illustrated reprint, is Chesterton's great epic poem about King Alfred's heroic battle against the Danes in 878. It is also a mystical and timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. It comes with an introduction and commentary by Sr Bernadette Sheridan, IHM, who spent over 60 years researching the poem.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON: A Biography
Peter Martin
This thoroughly researched and eminently readable biography of England's famous Dr Johnson makes use of quite a few important sources overlooked by Boswell. It provides the reader with a rich understanding of a brilliant and witty, but also lonely and tormented, man.
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THE TRIUMPH OF THE AIRHEADS
Shelley Gare
Airheadism includes countless manifestations of stupidity in our midst: Paris Hilton, Big Brother, insatiable consumerism, corporate mission statements, an aversion to reading books and the contemporary retreat from commonsense. Shelley Gare, in this vastly entertaining but disturbing book, nails all these and more.
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SMACK EXPRESS: How Organised Crime Got Hooked on Drugs
Clive Small and Tom Gilling
A former NSW assistant commissioner of police lifts the lid on Australia's big crime identities and some of their political associates.
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EKATERINBURG: The Last Days of the Romanovs
Helen Rappaport
This work examines in detail the events surrounding the last 14 days of former Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family before they were murdered by the ruling Communists in the early hours of July 17, 1918.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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