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September 2008 Non-Fiction

The Costello Memoirs
Peter Costello with Peter Coleman

$54.99$44.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )

The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government.

In a political career spanning eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasure... More »

The Great Feminist Denial
Monica Dux And Zora Simic

$34.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )

Feminism, if not dead, is at least seriously ill. It is now common to hear women declare themselves 'Not Feminists', whereas in the 1970s it was taken as given that any thinking woman would be proud to wear that label.

W... More »

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Climate Wars
Gwynne Dyer

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

The core problem with climate changes is not sea level rise or bio-diversity; it is food supply.

We are just barely able to feed the current six-and-a-half billion people on the planet, thanks to the Green Revolution and... More »

Objects Of The Dead
Margaret Gibson

$27.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )

What is the fate of objects after a death? And why do some things stay and some go from our lives and memories?

Objects of the Dead is about a universal and often poignant experience—the death of a loved one and the proc... More »


Denial: History Betrayed
Tony Taylor

$34.95 (Paperback book / Pan Macmillan )

Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial.

Tony Taylor surveys major cases in twentieth and twentyfirstcentury historical denial that illustrate th... More »

Europe Between The Oceans
Barry Cunliffe

$65.00 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )

Europe became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. This book sees Europe not in terms of states and shifting land boundaries... More »


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