Eureka Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Classic Civilisations
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women ...Show more
Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator by Bill O'Reilly
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Brau ...Show more
Unholy Fury the US Alliance and the Whitlam-Nixon Crisis by James Curran
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In the early 1970s, two titans of Australian and American politics-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and President Richard Nixon-clashed over the end of the Vietnam war and the shape of a new Asia. A relationship that had endured the heights of the Cold War veered dangerously off course and seemed headed for ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minis ...Show more
First Fleet by Rob Mundle
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The First Fleet - the creation of a nation. Rob Mundle, bestselling maritime biographer of Bligh, Flinders and Cook, is back on the ocean to tell one of the great stories of expedition under sail: the extraordinary eight-month, 17,000-nautical-mile voyage of the First Fleet. With customary sweep and swe ...Show more
First Fleet Surgeon: The Voyage of Arthur Bowes Smyth by David Hill
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In a single leather-bound volume of 238 unlined pages of parchment, Surgeon Arthur Bowes Smyth describes his two-and-a-half year journey with the First Fleet from Portsmouth in England to the new colony in Australia and back. He is a frank, articulate and observant writer, and his diary, a treasure of t ...Show more
50 Politics Classics: Freedom, Equality, Power by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: 50 Classics
ARISTOTLE BURKE CLAUSEWITZ CHURCHILL GANDHI HAYEK HOBBES MARTIN LUTHER KING MARX MACHIAVELLI MAO THOMAS PAINE SOLZHENITSYN DE TOCQUEVILLE MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT ZAKARIA
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good-very good
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...Show more
Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot : Inventing North Korea and Flying Free by Blaine Harden
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the Korean War ended, their pat ...Show more
Royal Visits to Australia by Jane Connors
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty years later, in April 2014, television news bulletins, newspapers and social media were awash with stories of the royal visit ...Show more
Without You, There Is No Us: My Secret Life Teaching the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, ...Show more
Magna Carta by David Carpenter
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Category: CLASSICS
With a new commentary by David Carpenter "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his eq ...Show more