Amazon Kindle – Now Available In Australia – BookOffers Buyers Guide
Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreThe Empathic Civilization is sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development – and is likely to determine our fate as a species.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world that [...]
Take a journey along The River with journalist Chris Hammer and see it in its death throes through his eyes. Is it too late to save it? Will he be able to inspire Australians from all walks of life and all backgrounds to come together as a nation and lend their resources to help save [...]
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From the Vietnam War to the Dismissal and his years as Prime Minister and through his many disputes with the Howard Government, in Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs the former Prime Minister emerges as an enduring liberal, one able to constantly and competently reinterpret core values to meet the needs of changing times.
Malcolm Fraser is [...]
A senior political journalist Niki Savva ‘crossed over to the dark side’ working for the Liberal’s Peter Costello and John Howard. This put her in a unique position to offer an opinionated take on the power play and shenanigans of Australia’s political media. ABC’s Laurie Oakes said of So Greek that it is ‘a rivetting [...]
An award winning journalist, who has reported from the world’s most troubled regions such as Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East, Mark Danner is more than controversial in his Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War, which has left many critics gasping for both air and words.
Stripping Bare the Body shows at [...]
The Eitingons, a wealthy clan of Russian fur traders, were liberated by the revolution of 1917. In the years between the two great wars they built their wealth on a virtual monopoly on fur exports from the Soviet Union. From Moscow to Vienna and on to New York this tale of secrecy, lies and misrepresentations [...]
There was nothing Christian, in truth or spirit, about the behaviour of the bullying leaders Behind the Exclusive Brethren when their existence was revealed in 2004. Michael Bachelard peels back layers of lies to reveal the truth behind the sect, whose existence at all, shocked and rocked the Australian conservative community.
Out of nowhere in 2004, [...]
From election to rejection Robert Mugabe took a tiny nation from a state of hope, led by a hero of the people, to a state of despair, led by a despotic failure until finally, there was not one person standing in the world who wanted to have Dinner with Mugabe.
This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert [...]
Prescription for Change: The Terry White Story – Anthony Koch
Prescription for Change: The Terry White Story by Anthony Koch is about the quintessential ‘Aussie Battler’ who trail blazed politics and modern pharmacies back to the future.
From Liberal parliamentary leader to Australia’s franchising guru – this is the story of Terry White. Tony Koch colourfully charts the drive, integrity and family support that [...]
Characters, culture, campaign and communication this is a thrilling intimate portrait of the candidates and their spouses painted by ‘Dream Team’ authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann as they sweep us along on the Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House
Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most [...]
