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    The Death of Consensus
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    The Death of Consensus

    From the Great Depression to the pandemic, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear.Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of...
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    Solferino 21
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    Solferino 21

    Warfare is at a tipping point today as it passes from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare and a renewed risk of 'big war' between global powers. Humanitarian response is also developing fast as...
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    All Roads Lead North
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    All Roads Lead North

    During the June 2020 territorial dispute over Kalapani, India blamed tensions on a newly assertive Nepal's deepening relations with China. But beyond the accusations and grandstanding, this reflects a new reality: the power equations in South Asia have...
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    White as the Shroud
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    White as the Shroud

    Between South and Central Asia, in the high mountains and cold deserts, India, Pakistan and China have fought brutal wars over barren, uninhabited territory in a bid for control over their national peripheries, including Xinjiang and Tibet in China, and...
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    Impossible Victory
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    Impossible Victory

    By 2014, the world had grown weary of Iraq and its troubles. The Americans had all but gone and the media had switched its gaze towards Syria, but Iraq's problems were far from over. That same year, ISIS put Iraq back on the map as they crossed the...
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    12 Seconds in the Dark
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    12 Seconds in the Dark

    You might think you know what happened in the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor, but no one knows that better than the lead officer on the scene, Sergeant John Mattingly.However, with the full support of the mainstream media, Black Lives Matter activists...
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    Napoleon at Peace
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    Napoleon at Peace

    The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized...
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    The Struggle for India's Soul
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    The Struggle for India's Soul

    There are over a billion Indians alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, one that is central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly contested ideas of nationalism, patriotism,...
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    Russia's Road to War with Ukraine
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    Russia's Road to War with Ukraine

    Ukraine is the subject of a tug of war between the west and Russia and has been terribly let down by both, albeit in very different ways, in the months and years leading up to war.Russia has brought bloodshed and suffering to Ukraine at the behest of...
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    First Lady

    Carrie Johnson is not only the consort of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson; she is also considered by some to be the second most powerful unelected woman in Britain after the Queen. Since she moved into Downing Street in July 2019, questions have been...
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    The Infodemic
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    The Infodemic

    How censorship turned a terrible disease into an assault on rightsAs COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship.The Infodemiclays bare not just old-fashioned censorship, but also the mechanisms of a modern brand of "censorship through...
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    Watch My Smoke
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    Watch My Smoke

    His style was iconic, and vintage '80s: aviator goggles, Jheri curls, neck roll, boxy pads.For the first time, Dickerson is telling his story. And he's not holding anything back.Eric Dickerson is the greatest player in Los Angeles Rams history and the...
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    Robespierre
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    Robespierre

    How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy.Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other...
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    Thinking like an Economist
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    Thinking like an Economist

    The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s - and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today.For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins...
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    A Taste for Treason
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    A Taste for Treason

    A gripping true story of wartime espionage.Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of...
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  • After Brexit
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    After Brexit

    Pressure for independence remains a major force in Scotland, but the case for it has changed substantially since the referendum of 2014. In the 2016 Brexit referendum, 60 per cent of the Scottish electorate voted to remain part of the European Union the...
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  • The Declaration of Arbroath
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    The Declaration of Arbroath

    The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland's status as an independent sovereign state with the right...
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    Privatized Planet
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    Privatized Planet

    President Trump has torn up the TTIP and TPP. Britain is distancing itself from the European Union. Does this means that corporate globalisation is in retreat? Privatized Planet exposes the truth about 'free trade' in this new era of...
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    Dissidents of the International Left
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    Dissidents of the International Left

    Dissidents of the International Left gives a clear-headed look at the many different strands of the international and domestic leftist currents pulsing throughout the world. With 77 interviews it gives lesser known dissidents, leftists, secularists and...
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    The Bleeding Edge
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    The Bleeding Edge

    A big-hitting historical analysis of technology which uses the computer as a can-opener to expose the inequality innate in capitalismCapitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the...
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    80:20
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    80:20

    A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injustices in an accessible and understandable fashion, with infographics, figures, graphs, photographs and...
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    Blacklisted

    In this fully updated new edition, the authors lift the lid on blacklisting. They detail the historic court victory for construction workers in the UK and the ongoing Pitchford public inquiry into undercover policing. It links developments in the UK with...
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    NoNonsense The Money Crisis

    A history of money, an examination of what's gone wrong and the ideas which would put people back in charge. Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How we've made such a...
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    The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food

    The world food system is put under the microscope in this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food. Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and economic disaster. He...
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    Big Men Fear Me
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    Big Men Fear Me

    Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2023 National Business Book Award The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most...
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    The Weight of Sand

    A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman's 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away.When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop a...
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    The Petroleum Papers
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    The Petroleum Papers

    Burning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming: this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead, they developed one of the biggest, most polluting oil sources in the world the...
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    Voice of Rebellion

    The first-ever biography of Mozhdah Jamalzadah: refugee, pop singer, and champion of women's rights.Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about...
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    Inspiring Canadians
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    Inspiring Canadians

    Forty influential and diverse Canadians with expertise in subjects such as Indigenous rights, climate change, social justice and race, gun control, higher education and poetry reflect on everything Canada is getting right-and what still needs to change...
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    Voices of us
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    Voices of us

    Australian politics is changing.The two-party system is disappearing, and the balance of power is shifting. While these changes might feel fragile, we may just be on the precipice of a transformative era for democracy in Australia.At the 2022 federal...
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    How to Rule Your Own Country
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    How to Rule Your Own Country

    Many people think they can do a better job running a country than politicians but few actually give it a go. What happens when political disagreement pushes to the point of no return? When a person has a dream of what their ideal country would be, and...
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    The Art of Coalition
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    The Art of Coalition

    Despite being described as 'a remarkably successful partnership' by John Howard and a 'triumph of trust' by his counterpart, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, the art of coalition government is a delicate (and sometimes difficult)...
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    Cadre Country
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    Cadre Country

    Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation's 40 million...
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    Dear Prime Minister
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    Dear Prime Minister

    'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime...
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    Gun Control
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    Gun Control

    'A masterpiece of analysis of the politics of transformative change.' - Otago Daily TimesIn the aftermath of the Port Arthurmassacre on 28 April 1996 when a gunman murdered 35 people andinjured another 23 at a popular Tasmanian touristattraction John...
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    Yes Yes Yes
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    Yes Yes Yes

    A compelling,moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia.Yes Yes Yes,written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriageequality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts andminds and...
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    The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
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    The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

    Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of theAustralian Imperial Force's actions and battleson the Western Front than anyone. Bean'sextensiveprivate wartime diaries, held by the Australian...
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    The Desire for Change, 2004-2007
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    The Desire for Change, 2004-2007

    The Liberal-National Party Coalition was elected to office on 2 March 1996 and continued in power until 3 December 2007 making John Howard the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister. This book is the final in a four-volume series examining the...
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    Trials and Transformations, 2001-2004
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    Trials and Transformations, 2001-2004

    Few periods in Australian political history have generated more controversy than 20012004.Trials and Transformations examines the Howard Government's electoral revival in 2001, the collapse of HIH Insurance and Ansett Airlines, and the MV Tampa...
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    Populism Now!
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    Populism Now!

    Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be...
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    This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
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    This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited

    'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who...
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    Escape Artist
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    Escape Artist

    The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete...
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    Not Just For this Life
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    Not Just For this Life

    Not Just For This Life is a salute and tribute to Gough Whitlam, commemorating what would have been his 100th birthday. Upon his death in October 2014 there was a national outpouring of grief and affectionate remembrances across the nation. This book...
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    The Worst Woman in Sydney
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    The Worst Woman in Sydney

    Matriarch of the criminal underworld ... or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history...
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    Offshore
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    Offshore

    What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012?This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of offshore processing since it recommenced in...
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    What's Prison For?
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    What's Prison For?

    What happens inside our prisons?What's Prison For? examines the "incarceration" part of "mass incarceration." What happens inside prisons and jails, where nearly two million Americans are held? Bill Keller, one of America's most accomplished journalists,...
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    Beautiful, Gruesome, and True
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    Beautiful, Gruesome, and True

    Why have some of the most interesting artists of our time committed themselves to some of the most devastating conflicts on Earth?Why are some of the most interesting artists of our time committed to engaging with conflict and exploitation around the...
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