THE HOWARD ERA
Essays edited by Keith Windschuttle, David Martin Jones and Ray Evans
Twenty-five essays from 21 conservative contributors, including Tony Abbott, John Stone, Ian Callinan, David Flint, Kevin Donnelly, James Allan, Bob Day, Barry Maley, Tom Switzer and Ray Evans, appraise Howard's record on economics, foreign affairs, defence, the constitution, marriage and divorce, housing, immigration, environmentalism, education and the culture wars.
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BATTLELINES
Tony Abbott
Here are Liberal Opposition leader Tony Abbott's rivetting and often humorous accounts of his political development, his experience of day-to-day political life (including his 'days from hell'), insider moments from the corridors of power, and how a would-be priest believed he had fathered an unknown son. This book (specially updated since Abbott's election to position of Opposition leader) also outlines his vision for the Liberal Party.
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APOCALYPSE? NO! Why 'global warming' is not a global crisis
Christopher (Viscount) Monckton of Brenchley
This dazzling, full-length feature film, by a former senior adviser to Margaret Thatcher, exposes the exaggerations and errors behind the 'global warming' scare. Lord Monckton's cool, rational approach sets the debate in a strongly scientific, philosophical and moral context. It is little wonder that Al Gore refuses to debate him.
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THE THIRD CHOICE: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom
Mark Durie
Lucid and free from political correctness, Dr Durie's internationally-acclaimed new study lifts the shroud of silence on Islam's ancient practice of dhimmitude, which humiliatingly subjugates and marginalises non-Muslim populations. Too many Westerners are either ignorant of this phenomenon or reluctant to resist its current spread.
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RELIGION AND THE RISE OF WESTERN CULTURE
Christopher Dawson
The great 20th century historian Christopher Dawson's timeless classic on Western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the dawn of the Renaissance, shows how Christianity, its leaders and its institutions transformed the face of Western culture. Dawson's writings have been praised by the likes of T.S. Eliot, J.R.R. Tolkien, Russell Kirk and B.A. Santamaria.
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THE NEXT CONSERVATISM: Paul Weyrich's Last Testament
Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind
Conservatives shouldn't live by party politicking alone, argue two distinguished US thinkers. They should devote more time to reviving traditional culture and institutions. Where institutions have been captured by 'cultural Marxism' (e.g., Political Correctness), conservatives should seek to create their own parallel structures and use them to re-capture society for traditional culture.
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FIRES OF FAITH: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Eamon Duffy
The reign of 'Bloody Mary' Tudor has traditionally been characterised as a doomed attempt to re-impose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. However, in this scholarly reappraisal of Mary, a renowned historian provides evidence that her reign, despite the notorious burning alive of more than 280 people for their religious beliefs, was neither inept nor backward-looking.
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THE THIRTY-SIX: A story of a boy's miraculous survival in wartime Poland
Siegmund Siegreich
A Polish Jew, who now lives with his family in Australia, recalls how he miraculously survived as a boy in wartime Poland. Not so fortunate were his parents and 167 members of his extended family who were exterminated in the Nazi death camps. The title of the book comes from the belief among Orthodox Jews that there are at any time in the world 36 righteous people who live largely obscure lives and who suffer for the sins of humanity.
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LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
Today's children, instead of hiking, fishing, digging forts and climbing trees, are more likely to be confined indoors with video games and text-messaging. American author and child advocate Richard Louv, in this updated and expanded edition of his classic work, warns of the mental deprivation children suffer from living a 'denatured childhood'.
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REVOLUTION 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Victor Sebestyen
Hungarian-born British journalist Victor Sebestyen was present in central and eastern Europe in 1989, and personally witnessed the sequence of dramatic events that led to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Soviet empire. Using scores of interviews with participants and other eywitnesses, he narrates a vivid, gripping and definitive account of the year that changed the world.
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DESIRE AND DECEIT: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
In today's world, lifetime monogamy is passé, pornography infiltrates nearly every home, homosexuality is accepted, and the traditional family is derided. Morality is considered to be a matter of mere private preference. Leading US cultural commentator, Baptist theologian and broadcaster, Dr Albert Mohler, in this incisive study, equips thoughtful readers with answers to today's civilisational crisis.
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OUT FROM UNDER: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting
Dawn Stefanowicz
Overlooked in the debate on same-sex marriage and adoption rights is the host of problems experienced by children raised by homosexual or lesbian couples. Dawn Stefanowicz was raised by her homosexual father and his many partners, and has written up her harrowing experiences in this important book.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN EUROPE: Immigration, Islam and the West
Christopher Caldwell
Europe's half-century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling the American melting pot. Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighbourhoods have now forced Europeans, caught up in a demographic revolution they never expected, to acknowledge the limits of their long-cherished liberal values.
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FAMILY AND CIVILIZATION
Carle C. Zimmerman
Originally published in 1947, this compelling historical study by a distinguished Harvard sociologist accurately predicted many of today's social problems resulting from the erosion of marriage and the family. This new abridged edition of Zimmerman's magnum opus comes with commentaries by James Kurth, Allan Carlson and Bryce Christensen.
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MULTICULTURALISM AND THE POLITICS OF GUILT: Towards a Secular Theocracy
Paul E. Gottfried
A succinct and devastating analysis of the intolerant ideology of multiculturalism, its success in de-legitimising traditional Western civilised values through inculcating feelings of guilt, and its program to polarise society into one of victim and victimiser and to force people to conform to the dictates of political correctness.
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AUSTRALIA'S EDUCATION REVOLUTION: How Kevin Rudd won and lost the education wars
Dr Kevin Donnelly
A leading education commentator Kevin Donnellly demonstrates how Kevin Rudd has failed to fulfil his election promise to revolutionise education. Instead, schools are losing their independence and being micro-managed by Canberra. Standards have fallen. Kevin Donnelly shows what must be done.
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HITLER'S MAN IN THE EAST, ODILO GLOBOCNIK
Joseph Poprzeczny
Everyone has heard of Adolf Eichmann, the bureaucrat responsible for organising the mass deportation of millions of European Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. Few people, however, have heard of Odilo Globocnik, an Austrian-born Nazi directly responsible for setting up the Nazis' three main extermination camps.
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REDEEMING A FATHER'S HEART: Men Share Powerful Stories of Abortion Loss and Recovery
Kevin Burke, David Wemhoff and Marvin Stockwell
The most common outcome of relationships involving an abortion is divorce or breaking up. Here, 10 men testify not only about the toxic after-effects of abortion, but also how men and their loved ones can face up to what they've done and work through post-abortion grief.
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THE PLAN: Twelve Months to Renew Britain
Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan
Two British Conservative MPs offer a radical 10-point plan, not without relevance for Australia, for curbing political abuses, returning political power to voters, and abolishing unaccountable institutions, particularly 'human rights' bodies which give too much power to judges.
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THE LIBERAL MIND: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness
Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr, MD
'Liberal' (i.e., left-wing) thought is less a philosophy than a mental disorder, according to US clinical psychiatrist Dr Rossiter, who, for more than 35 years, has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients. He observes that left-liberals, 'like spoiled and angry children ... rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood', see themselves as victims and rage against imaginary villains.
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A LOOSE CANON: Essays on History, Modernity and Tradition
Brian J. Coman
In this delightful collection of essays, Brian Coman covers a vast range of experiences from ferreting rabbits, to the pleasures of reading The Odyssey and listening to church bells. Religion, philosophy, modern music noise, Bertrand Russell and Chinese ghost stories - all feature in this eclectic compilation.
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DISCIPLINE THAT LASTS A LIFETIME: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Kids
Dr Ray Guarendi
Author, counsellor, broadcaster and father, Dr Ray Guarendi offers parents fresh and practical advice about disciplining children. Although contemporary culture has downplayed discipline, says the author, it remains an important, God-given tool for parents to form their children’s character and to teach them the basics of living, moral responsibility and respect.
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CRUEL AND USUAL PUNISHMENT: The terrifying global implications of Islamic Law
Nonie Darwish
Living under Sharia law for the first 30 years of her life, a virtual slave to Islamic law, Darwish now wants to share her experiences with the Western world and show how radical Muslim laws are destroying the West from within.
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GETTING REAL: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls
edited by Melinda Tankard Reist
In today's popular culture, girls are portrayed as sex objects at ever-younger ages, and are pressured to conform to a 'thin, hot, sexy' norm. Getting Real brings together 15 lively and engaging essays by writers, advocates and academics, who call corporations, the media and the sex industry to account for creating this toxic environment.
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THE GREAT TRADITION: Classic Readings on What It Means to be an Educated Human Being
edited by Richard M. Gamble
In the classical and Christ-ian tradition, the formation of the soul in wisdom, virtue and eloquence took precedence over all other forms of education. Assembled here are substantial excerpts from more than 60 seminal writings on education from such figures as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Burke, John H. Newman, Thomas Arnold and C.S. Lewis.
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BRAVE NEW FAMILY: G.K. Chesterton on Men
edited by Alvaro de Silva
The family was a central element in Chesterton's vision. His eloquent defence of the sacredness of the home, as seen in this inspired anthology of his articles, essays and poems, is even more relevant today with the family under threat from so many directions.
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ISLAM: Human Rights and Public Policy
edited by David Claydon
This collection of 19 essays, by such international experts on Islam as Patrick Sookhdeo, Daniel Pipes and Australia's Paul Stenhouse and Mark Durie, provides a comprehensive and indispensable resource for gaining an understanding of Islam's political strategy and of what our public policy response should be.
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POMPEII: The Life of a Roman Town
Mary Beard
Professor of classics at Cambridge, Mary Beard, recreates convincingly what life must have been like in Pompeii during its last days before it was destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. She draws on the work of historians and archaeologists and, in doing so, dispels a lot of myths and offers persuasive explanations of her own.
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A LANDSCAPE WITH DRAGONS: The Battle for Your Child's Mind
Michael D. O'Brien
Author and father of six, Michael O'Brien analyses the pagan invasion of children's culture, especially through fantasy books and movies. He provides parents and teachers with the means to assess the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution and points the way to rediscovery of time-tested classics of Christian culture.
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D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy
Antony Beevor
The renowned author of the prize-winning histories, Stalingrad and Berlin describes the Normandy D-Day landings, which involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Making use of much hitherto unused archival material, Beevor gives a gripping account of the true experience of war.
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THE DARWIN MYTH:
The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
Benjamin Wiker
No scientist has fuelled more debate than Charles Darwin. Benjamin Wiker offers a critical analysis of Darwin's theories as well as the social, scientific and religious implications of his work. He cuts through the myths and popular misconceptions of Darwinism and reveals its dangerous legacy
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STEALTH JIHAD
Robert Spencer
Bestselling author Robert Spencer shows how radical Islam is subverting the West without guns or bombs. Well-funded and well-organised jihadists have learned how to co-opt and subvert Western education, media, the legal system and even top levels of government. Western societies are rapidly acquiescing in the notion that any criticism of Islam is tantamount to racism.
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WHY DON'T STUDENTS LIKE SCHOOL?
Daniel T. Willingham
University of Virginia professor and cognitive psychologist Daniel T. Willingham demolishes several trendy education myths as he lays bare how students' minds really work. Using examples and top-line research, he shows what great scope there is for improving classroom teaching.
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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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