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David Marr
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars
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A biography of Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of a dozen novels and many other books, a spokesman for (and against) an Australia he both…
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David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching…
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Quarterly Essay is a trailblazing Australian journal of politics and culture. Each issue contains a single essay written at a length of about 25,000 words, followed by correspondence on previous…
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Tony Abbott is poised to become the nation’s next prime minister and, more than ever, Australian’s are asking: what kind of man is he and how might he run the…
This irreverent, controversial account is a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Rudd’s years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and interviewing…
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Panic (noun). A sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behaviour. Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you’ll uncover an…
Examines the pornography/art debate with exclusive interviews with Bill Henson, members of the NSW police force, child abuse campaigners and important figures in the Australian arts scene. Contains prints of…
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David Courtnay Marr was born on January 19, 1945 in Essex, England. He went to the English public school, Rugby, on scholarship and between 1963 and 1966 studied mathematics at…
John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critis, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecutred leakers, criminalised protest…
In Quarterly Essay 51, David Marr investigates the character and actions of Cardinal George Pell: how does he wield his authority? How did he rise to prominence? How has he…
John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest…
The top job is within Bill Shorten’s grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm…
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics…
David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia’s most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr’s hands, those…
David Marr’s explosive bestseller, now expanded and updated. The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the…
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Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize. The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book - and a crucial election - year companion. Australians want…
An anthology of David Marr's powerful ruminations on art, religion, sex, censorship and the law, his unflinching profiles of party leaders and forensic accounts of social and political controversy.
David…
We all know people popularly described as on the spectrum - people who have Aspergers Syndrome. In this memoir, David vividly and clearly describes what that means: in the home…
This powerful biography brings to life Australia’s most powerful and controversial Chief Justice. An Australian classic, it is David Marr’s first book.
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Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
David Marr is known for his research on the brain in the late 60s and 70s, becoming one of the main founders of Computational Neuroscience when neuroscience was in its…
David Marr's explosive bestseller about George Pell, now expanded and fully updated.
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.
In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic…
David Marr,Marian Wilkinson
This genre-breaking inside account of the Tampa, the Children Overboard affair and the Pacific Solution. Updated with startling new information.
David G. Marr
Amidst the revolutionary euphoria of August 1945, most Vietnamese believed that colonialism and war were being left behind in favor of independence and modernization. In this title, the author explains…
Offers an intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval and protracted military conflict. This book argues that changes in political and social consciousness between…
Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church’s handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of…
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries…
1945: the most significant year in the modern history of Vietnam. One thousand years of dynastic politics and monarchist ideology came to an end. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and…
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
Davide Marre, Gonzalo Martinez Moreno
This new, incredible Oracle kit by Davide Marre and Gonzalo Martinez Moreno takes you by the hand and guides you through the world and themes of Wicca. This edition comprises…
This anthology concentrates on domestic questions, economic policies, and socialist development and ideology. The essays’ subjects include such varied topics as education, economics, the military, leadership, and economic assistance and…
Davide Marr?, Gonzalo Martinez Moreno
Masterfully portraying a union of light and dark, movement and stillness, this oracle deck invites you to draw deep inspiration from the magic all around you. Gonzalo M. Moreno's striking…
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Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.
Sam Crowell,David Reid-Marr
Inspiring teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within a highly constrained educational environment, this text demonstrates through descriptive stories strategies for emergent teaching. The text is consistent with…
Binh Tu Tran
Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is…
Andrew Marr
Published alongside a landmark BBC2 series, this is the story of Britain from 1900 to the end of the Second World War.
Andrew Marr’s acclaimed Sunday Times number one bestseller, updated with an extensive additional chapter taking readers from Blair to Brexit
Denise Mimmocchi
Tony Tuckson’s story is not a simple one. He was an artist, arguably Australia’s most significant abstract expressionist painter but he also played a crucial role in shaping the modern…
