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Hot off the Press
Not for Greens: He who sups with
the Devil should have a long spoon
-- Ian Plimer
With a Foreword by Patrick Moore, cofounder of Greenpeace
ISBN 9781925138191
Paperback, 298 pages
Price: $29.95
The processes to make a humble stainless steel
teaspoon are remarkably complicated and at
every stage involve risk, coal, energy, international
trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken
thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end
result is that we can eat without killing ourselves with bacteria. We live in the best
times to have ever lived on planet Earth and the future will only be better. All this
we take for granted.
Greens started as genuine environmentalists. Much of the green movement
has morphed into an unelected extremist political pressure group responsible to
no one. Greens create problems, many of which are concocted, and provide no
solutions because of a lack of basic knowledge. Numerous examples are given.
Policies by greens have resulted in rising costs, increased taxes, political
instability, energy poverty, decreased longevity and environmental degradation
and they don’t achieve their ideological aims. Wind, solar and biomass energy emit
more carbon dioxide than they save and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
does nothing to change climate and only empties the pocket.
This book argues that unless the greens live sustainably in caves in the forest and
use no trappings of the modern world, then they should be regarded with contempt.
Democracy in Decline:
Steps in the Wrong Direction
-- James Allan
ISBN 9781925138184
Price: $24.95
“Something very odd is going on. The core anglophone
democracies - among the oldest, most stable, constitutionallyevolved societies on earth, and the indispensable members
of that small group of western nations which resisted the
totalitarian temptations of the 20th century - have been
spending the first years of this new millennium in a remorseless
retreat from liberty. In a commanding and trenchant analysis,
James Allan examines this disturbing phenomenon, and the supple, slippery threats to real
freedom and representative government from ersatz “human rights” and transnationalism. This
is an important book that charts free nations’ beguiling seduction into soft tyranny. If we are to
reverse it, we will need more voices like Professor Allan’s.”
-- Mark Steyn, Canadian-born writer and political commentator.
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New Releases
The Conservative Revolution
-- Cory Bernardi
ISBN 9781922168962
Paperback, 180 pages, Price: $29.95
A RUNAWAY BESTSELLER
“Bernardi opens up conversations others want closed” –
Andrew Bolt
An unapologetic advocate for mainstream
values, Cory Bernardi presents a bold vision for
a stronger nation that is founded on conservative
principles. He takes the fight to the political left
and calls for an overturning of the existing moral
relativism that threatens Australia’s way of life.
Bernardi argues that the best way to tackle this
threat is to protect and defend the traditional institutions that have stood the test
of time, something that he has done during his time as a senator in the Australian
Parliament. Bernardi’s work courageously promotes the conservative cause and sets
out a path to a better Australia through a commitment to faith, family, flag, freedom
and free enterprise. This volume reminds us that conservative principles – not the
populist whims of the left – generate enduring stability, success and strength. That
is why we need a conservative revolution.
Audit Commissions: reviewing the reviewers
-- Kate Jones & Scott Prasser
ISBN: 9781922168993, Paperback, 80 pages
Price: $19.95
Audit Commissions: Reviewing the Reviewers is the first
comprehensive assessment of all fourteen state, territory
and federal audit commissions established since 1988.
That audit commissions are a particular Australian
institution makes this study of value to both Australian and
international audiences. The volume outlines the history,
reasons for appointment, roles, processes, members,
impact and suggests where audit commissions fit in the
overall architecture of Australian government.
Recognise What? -- Edited by Gary Johns
ISBN 9781925138238, Paperback, 150 Pages
Price: $22.95
Edited by Gary Johns contains 12 essays arguing the
case for, at the very most, acknowledging Aborigines in a
Preamble to the Constitution, but not the characteristics
of Aborignes in the Constitution. Contributors include:
Ron Brunton, Alistair Crooks, James Allan, Bryan Pape,
Wesley Aird, Anthony Dillon, Kerryn Pholi, Frank Salter,
Dallas Scott, Tom Flanagan and David Round.
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New Releases
Australian Essays
-- Roger Scruton
With a Foreword by Chris Berg
Published with the
Institute of Public Affairs
ISBN 9781925138139 Paper, 98 pages
Price: $19.95
In this collection of essays produced to celebrate
the Institute of Public Affairs’ 2014 Foundations
of Western Civilisation Symposium, Roger Scruton
explores the fallacies of our technocratic age. Roger
Scruton is interested in what makes us human: our
individual self-conscious, our search for the divine, our yearning for community,
and our sense of place.
Tackling subjects from religion, to communism, to meat-eating, Roger Scruton
rejects the attempts of ideologues to reduce humanity into abstraction.
Roger Scruton is a writer, philosopher, and public commentator. He is the
author of thirty-three books, including The Meaning of Conservatism, Beauty, An
Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy, and The Uses of Pessimism.
Taming the Black Dog
-- Kevin Donnelly
ISBN 9781925138054, Paperback, 80 Pages
Price: $19.95
Life was never meant to be easy, as a famous politician
once said, and tragedy and loss can strike at any time.
Losing a loved one unexpectedly and without reason,
facing family hardship or a crisis at work are events that
can touch anyone of us.
But, there are ways to be resilient and to overcome
adversity and pain and to lessen the impact of depression.
In Taming the Black Dog, Kevin Donnelly writes how literature, religious faith
and the love and comfort of family and friends can help one to find a safe shore
after the storms and the rough seas. While there is no closure - there is hope and
a chance to live life to the full.
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New Works
A Better Class of Sunset:
Collected Works of Christopher Pearson
-- Edited by Nick Cater and
Helen Baxendale
Introduction by Tony Abbott and
Jack Snelling
ISBN 9781925138207
Hardback, 400 Pages
Price: $59.95
There has never been a writer quite like Christopher Pearson. A Better Class of Sunset brings together Pearson’s enduring columns and essays, chronicling the twists
and turns of Australian cultural life over three intriguing decades. From climate
change to homosexuality and the welfare of Indigenous Australians, Pearson was
an unflagging champion of unfashionable causes, a conscientious objector to political correctness and a skilled dissector of muddle-headed arguments. They reveal
a true man of letters with a rare literary voice; passionate, moving and often very
funny, Pearson’s thinking seldom strays from his abiding principles. For all those
who aspire to be members of what Pearson called Club Sensible, A Better Class of
Sunset is an indispensible addition to the bookshelf.
The Modest Member:
The Life and Times of Bert Kelly
-- Hal Colebatch
ISBN 9781922168023
Price: $29.95
The story of Bert Kelly, MP for the South Australian seat
of Wakefield from 1958-1977, is the story of one of the
most influential parliamentarians in the history of the
Commonwealth. Bert Kelly was never ambitious in the
sense that is usually applied to politicians. His ambition was not to attain high
office but to change opinion within the parliament and the community at large
about protectionism and the harm which tariffs had done to Australia since they
were introduced by Alfred Deakin in 1902.
Bert Kelly was almost alone and isolated in this great undertaking, but his gifts
as a writer and as a political strategist eventually brought success when, after he had
retired from parliamentary politics, the Hawke-Keating Government in 1984 began
dismantling the protectionist structure which had impoverished Australia for more
than 80 years.
He was known as “the Modest Member”, the title he used for his influential
column in the Australian Financial Review. His powerful opponent Black Jack McEwen
described him in the Parliament as “the modest member with much to be modest
about”. But it was Bert Kelly who won this great contest, and his victory has been
of inestimable benefit to all Australians.
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Biographies
Nick Greiner: A Political Biography -- Ian Hancock
ISBN 9781922168542, Hardback, 480 pages
Price: $59.95
Nick Greiner was an unusual post-war Premier of NSW.
He came into office in 1988 wanting to do more than
change lifestyles, win re-election and remain popular, and
he proceeded to implement a wide-ranging and enduring
transformation of what he called “NSW Inc.”
Born in Budapest, the elder son of a Hungarian father
and Slovak mother, Nick arrived in Sydney in 1951 at the
age of three. His parents’ encounters with Nazi and then
Communist persecution explain their determination to
leave Europe, to ‘make good’ in Australia.
From an early age, Nick wanted to be the best. He
came top or amongst the top in every year at school, at
the University of Sydney, and at the Harvard Business
School. Frustrated by his father’s ‘European ways’ of
running the family timber business, he went into politics. Within three years this
self-styled ‘non-politician’ and Liberal Party ‘outsider’ was elected Leader of the
demoralised State Liberals, and within another five years led the Coalition to a
landslide election victory.
He brought to the premiership, and his later very successful business career, the
habits of thought which his Harvard and post-Harvard experience had cultivated:
a commitment to change and a willingness to take risks, an emphasis on evidencebased, rational and strategic approaches to decision-making, a concentration on
outcomes rather than processes and on practical solutions rather than ideological
consistency.
Carrick: Principles, Politics and Policy
-- Graeme Starr
With a Foreword by Hon John Howard
ISBN 9781921421655
Hardback, 400 pages
Price: $49.95
This biography covers Carrick’s early life, his wartime
experience with Sparrow Force on Timor, years as
a prisoner of the Japanese, and his work with the
Mountbattens in Singapore at the end of the war. Drawn
into a career in politics, he was for more than two decades general secretary of the
NSW Liberal Party, and served fifteen years in the Senate, with seven years as a
senior Cabinet minister (Education and National Development and Energy). He
reinvented Australian politics for his time, and his commitment to principle won
the respect of people on all sides of politics. His continuing role as a leading figure
in education reform has earned him the highest national honours and recognition
from the universities and other educators. His story is of great value to everyone
interested in World War II and prisoners of war, and to all readers and students of
Australian politics and history.
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Politics
State of the Nation: Aspects of Australian Public Policy
-- Edited by Don Markwell, Rachael Thompson and
Julian Leeser
ISBN 9781922168405, Paperback, 260 pages, Price: $29.95
State of the Nation critiques the policies and
performance of the Rudd and Gillard governments in
Australia since 2007 in diverse policy areas. The policy
areas considered range from the resources sector,
where real damage has been done to one of the great
drivers of the Australian economy, to defence, where
the absence of strategy and the deep cuts in spending
have risked Australia’s national security; from border
protection, where hundreds of boatpeople have died
trying to take advantage of lax Australian policies,
to the National Broadband Network, where tens
of billions of dollars of taxpayers’ funds have been
committed without proper process or adequate
reporting.
Other topics include trade and foreign policy,
including the mismanagement of Australia’s
relations with China; social policy fields such as welfare reform, mental health, and
homelessness; agriculture and regional Australia, culture and higher education – and,
given the importance of good process in policy-making and public administration,
an agenda for reform of the Australian public service.
Turning Left or Right: Values in Modern Politics
-- Tim Wilson, Carlo Carli and Paul Collits
ISBN 9781922168771, Paperback, 420 Pages, Price: $34.95
Turning left or right asks these questions, breaks through
the wall of sound bites and explores how centuryold political philosophies connect to practical policy
for the 21st Century.
Each chapter includes three essays from some
of Australia’s most engaged political thinkers who
explore contemporary policy issues, find the dividing
lines and reinject values and ideas. Importantly, every
author’s essay provides insight into the solutions they
think are needed to make Australia a better country
for future generations.
Contributors include: B. Hinz, A. van Onselen, A.
Downer, D. Redfearn, Tim Wilson, Ian Plimer, A. Hewett,
Alan Oxley, M.O’Connor, Martin Foley, Judith Sloan, Peter
Murphy, Mike Hill, Charles Kemp, Greg Melleuish, Ged
Kearney, Ken Phillips, Ray Evans, Tristan Ewins, Sinclair Davidson, Tony Makin, B. Hannan,
R. Bolger, Kevin Donnelly, Siobhan Hannan, Adam Creighton, Kevin Andrews, L. Stillman,
S. Breheny, Greg Melleuish, J. Rea, Julian Lesser, Peter Murphy, Stefano de Pieri, Louise Staley,
Barnaby Joyce, C. Anderson, G. Ward, B. Day, Alan Austin, Christian Kerr, Jai Martinkovits,
Carlo Carli, Christine Forster, David van Gend, J. Perlstein, Peter van Onselen and Gary Johns.
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Politics
Give Us Back Our Country
-- David Flint and Jai Martinkovits
ISBN 9781925138047
Price: $34.95
ABBOTT GOVERNMENT EDITION
There are few problems today which have not been either
caused or made worse by the politicians. The sad fact
is that the institutions of our representative democracy
– one of the world’s oldest – have been compromised.
This can be directly attributed to the power brokers in
the major parties who are in an unholy alliance with the elites. So much of what
they do today just does not pass the “pub test”. The authors argue that the only
solution is to make the politicians truly accountable – not just every three or four
years in blank cheque elections – but on every day, of every month and of every
year through the tools of direct democracy.
“This book is essential reading for anybody who cares about the future of Australia.
Too many Australians are exasperated by what they are seeing in the media and many
have disengaged from the political debate. Too many Australians who want to be more
involved are prevented from doing so. An effective and practical solution is to empower
rank-and-file Australians, relying on their common sense, good judgement and basic
decency.” -- The Hon. Peter Reith, Former Deputy Leader of the Liberal
Party.
What If -- Edited by Peta Seaton
ISBN 9781921421341, Paperback, 285 pages
Price $29.95
Some of our most outspoken media bosses, former
premiers, policy wonks and idea enthusiasts ask the big
new policy questions.
If you’ve ever wondered ...
What if we had nuclear energy? What if schools could
make profits? What if you could review government
performance online, like eBay? What if we brought back
state taxes? Or how about abolishing states? What if we
stopped bribing people to buy houses, stopped propping up industry, let people
from different professions be school principals?
What if we had first class rail travel, and school teachers on individual contracts?
What if you could sell your share of public services you don’t want? What if you
could read what Cabinet sees? The answers might surprise you – and many cows
are not as sacred as they may have seemed.
What if we did any of these things? What-Iffers show we would have more
choice, freer markets, government services that actually took you seriously,
a stronger economy, better incentives and greater personal responsibility. Our
children would inherit an Australia even better than one we have ....
And having asked the question, at least we won’t die wondering.
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Politics
The Charity Ball: how to dance to the
donors’ tune -- Gary Johns
ISBN 9781925138221, Paperback,
300 pages approx. Price: $29.95
Too many charities in Australia do little or no charity
work, too many receive most of their income from
government, and too many lobby government for
more. Gary Johns analyses the charity sector and concludes that a better informed donor is essential to drive
better charity.
Make a Difference:
A Practical Guide to Lobbying
-- Guy Barnett
Foreword by Tim Costello
Price: $29.95
Packed with practical advice, opinion and essential
information about how to lobby, as well as with
interesting political and historical facts, this is an
indispensable handbook for anyone in our nation who
seeks to understand or participate in the political process. This book demonstrates
that basic lobbying skills, combined with a gracious, honest, optimistic and politely
persistent character are key ingredients to lobbying success. More than anything, no
matter who you are or what your platform, lobbying can only benefit from a firm
belief that you can make a difference.
The Greens: Policies, Consequences and Reality
-- Edited by Andrew McIntyre
The idea for this book came from an awareness of the
alarming void in media analysis of the Greens’ policies at a
time when they have been gaining in political strength. This
book brings together leading Australian experts who look
at a wide range of their policies in detail – from Agriculture
to Z00phytes – to reveal the practical consequences of
these policies. The book suggests that the Greens have
an uncontrollable urge to spend our money, a mania for
legislative and regulatory control – of both institutions and
individuals – a disturbing and unwarranted confidence in
central planning and a belief that government knows best.
Underlying this is a thoroughly naïve understanding of how
the real world works. The irony is that the Greens’ policies
would not only destroy our economy but actually make the environment worse.
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Literary Giants
Christos Tsiolkas, The Untold Story: His Life and his Work
-- John Vasilakakos
Christos Tsiolkas The Untold Story is the first in-depth systematic
look at the life and work of one of Australia’s most popular
and controversial storytellers. From Tsiolkas’ early days
as a struggling writer to the present universal acclaim, his
compelling untold story is at last recorded. For the first time
the writer speaks candidly and de profundis about everything:
his turbulent life (his childhood, adolescence and adulthood)
and subjects dear to his heart (literature and criticism, identity,
the state of humanity – decadence, materialism, spirituality,
ethics, racism, animal liberation, intellectuals and the media
– religion and death). He also reveals secrets and valuable
insights about his four controversial novels -f rom his first
provocative Loaded to his latest international bestseller The Slap.
Lessons in Humility: 40 Years of Teaching
-- Barry Dickins
Lessons in Humility is the story of Barry Dickins’ life as a teacher.
He gained his Diploma Of Education at The Melbourne
State College forty years ago although he failed Classroom
Management. He has taught Drama and Creative Literature
to cherubs at a primary school and prayer-composition at a
secondary college. The recollection unfolds at the point of
doom but cheerfully expands when the author experiences
enlightenment when he is put in with Grade Ones forever.
Barry Dickins’ writing has been called ‘The defeat of the
desperate by the bizarre’ which means of course that his stage
characters are inevitably overcome by not themselves but
their surroundings. Join the catastrophic but noble hunt for
meaning as our indefatigable community-loving teacher collides with life head-on.
The Heart of James McAuley -- Peter Coleman
The Heart of James McAuley examines the work of the famous
poet, editor, critic, and political thinker. It places the poetry in
its biographical context from his anarchistic and avant-garde
youth to the libertarian conservative and Catholic convert of
later years. It takes a new look at the great Ern Malley hoax,
his profound essays on the decolonization of New Guinea,
his association with such major figures as B.A.Santamaria
and Sir John Kerr, his founding of the magazine Quadrant,
and his response to a number of controversies from the CIA
scandals to the New Left assaults on the universities. No other
biography of McAuley encompasses all the wide-ranging
activities of this great poet.
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Remarkable People
Memoirs of a Slow Learner -- Peter Coleman
New Edition
Price: $29.95
Memoirs of a Slow Learner is the first volume of Peter
Coleman’s story of Australia in the twentieth century.
Part autobiographical, part cultural history, some will
read it as a comic anatomy of the corpse of Australian
small l-liberalism. Others will see it a journalistic record of
our times. Yet others a moving personal statement. Looking
back I now see that the real origins of Memoirs of a Slow
Learner was my immersion in the poetry of James McAuley
(my Co-editor at Quadrant) as the historian Manning Clark,
this unique memoir - at once philosophical and intimate - is
a new departure in Australian autobiography.
By Wendouree: Memories 1951-1963 -- John Molony
Price: $34.95
This is John Molony’s journey from Rome in 1951 to his
marriage in 1963. When Molony left Rome in 1953 he was
a priest working among the poor. Under the broken arches
of the aqueducts bordering that ancient city, Molony learnt
the meaning of compassion without judgement and how to
inspire hope amidst despair. In stark contrast, the Boston of
the 1950s where Molony spent some months on his journey
home to Australia, was a dizzying mixture of optimism and
affluence that went some way to healing wounds caused by
post-war Europe. Molony returned to Australia determined
to spend his priestly life in his country. Throughout the next
decade, the Roman that Molony had become contended with
the Australian that he wanted to be...
Wrestling with Asia: A Memoir -- Frank Mount
This fascinating and engrossing book should be read by
anyone with an interest in the Vietnam War, Southeast Asia
and Australia’s relations with the region. It offers exciting
behind-the-scenes insights into: The Vietnam War and its
strategic importance to the region. Ted Serong, the CIA
and the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. The Rise and Fall of
Soeharto. Bob Santamaria, the Pacific Institute and the Asia
Pacific Community. The growth of regional co-operation
leading to ASEAN and APEC and the democratisation and
the Rise of Radical Islam.
Follow Frank through the war zones of Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia, guerrilla-infested areas of Thailand, Malaysia
and the Philippines and the exotic capitals of the region.
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Science
Acqa Incognita: Why Ice Floats on
Water and Galileo 400 years on
-- Pierandrea Lo Nostro &
Barry W Ninham (Editors)
ISBN: 9781925138214
Price: $59.95
Over 400 years after a young Galileo led a famous debate
on why ice floats on water the answer to this question
remains unresolved. So are the answers to a myriad questions about water. The
present book includes contributions from scientists at the cutting edge from
around the world, on where we are now on WATER. Contributors include Piero
Baglion, Thomas Beck, Dor Ben-Amotz, Nikolai Bunkin, Louis Caruana Martin
Chaplin, Vincent Craig, Shigeru Deguchi, Timothy T. Duignan, Sarah Everts, Juan
Manuel García-Ruiz, Marc Henry, Stephen T. Hyde, Toyoki Kunitake, Pierandrea
Lo Nostro, Dorothy M. Morré, Barry W. Ninham, Yoshimune Nonomura, Drew
F. Parsons, Richard M. Pashley, Niccolò Peruzzi, Lawrence R. Pratt, Francesca
Ridi, Richard J. Saykally, Francesco Sciortino, Yosef Scolnik.
On the surface of things:
The application of scientific ideas to
explain many everyday phenomena
-- Richard M. Pashley
ISBN 9781922168061
Price: $29.95
This book attempts to explain in basic scientific terms
the fundamental cause for many of the properties and
behaviour of liquids, solids and air that we see in our daily lives. We can explain and
so understand many of the phenomena that we observe everyday using some fairly
simple scientific principles developed over many centuries of study of the properties
of natural materials. This book demonstrates that a strong scientific background is
not needed to explain many of the examples we see in everyday life and in many
important industrial processes.
“This is an interesting and informative book which attempts, with success, to explain a diverse
range of common everyday natural phenomena but without the need for a detailed background
in science.”
- Professor Barry Ninham, Emeritus Professor, Department of Applied
Mathematics, ANU Canberra
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Great Thinkers
The Sales Doctor:
A Working Manual for Professional Sales People
-- Bob Day AO
ISBN 9781925138283
Price: $22.95
THERE ARE 22 KEY ‘SALES DOCTOR’ PRINCIPLES.
Here are a few of them …
- To be a successful sales professional you do not have to
be a born sales person. Professional selling can be learned
and learned well.
- If you believe in what you are doing then you have every
right to get really good at helping people to use the service
or own the product you are selling.
- No-one likes being sold to, but everyone likes to buy.
- Don’t just find out what your customers want, find out
why they want it.with the vagrant curiosity of the fox.”
“Every realtor, every vehicle distributor, every shop owner, in fact
every sales person and sales manager in the world should read this
book. It will pay for itself a hundred times over.”
- Frank Furness, London, UK
Loose Canon: Essays on History, Modernity and
Tradition -- Brian Coman
ISBN 9780980293623
Price: $29.95
Life, it has been said, is just ‘one damned thing after another’. For Brian
Coman, though, the experiences have been anything but
humdrum. In this collection of essays, he ranges over a
vast tapestry of experiences from ferreting rabbits, to the
pleasures of reading The Odyssey and listening to church
bells. Religion, philosophy, modern music noise, Freddie
Ayer’s ‘amorous dalliances’, and Chinese ghost stories - it’s
all here in this eclectic compilation. Most of these essays
have previously appeared in Quadrant magazine but are
here gathered together in a single volume. This is an
eminently readable collection, combining wit and serious
reflection on the human condition. The essays will delight
both the serious and the casual reader.
“His range animates these essays (almost all of which first appeared in Quadrant). He
also has the style of a good essayist—sympathetic, sceptical, inquisitive, stylish, witty and
conversational. He is both a hedgehog and a fox. He blends the big idea of the hedgehog
with the vagrant curiosity of the fox.” - Peter Coleman, Quadrant.
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Law and Leadership
Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries:
Practice and Potential
-- Edited by Scott Prasser and Helen Tracey
The contributors to Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries
explore the potential of inquiries to impact on policy and
administration, the kind of outcomes they have produced
and the factors making them more or less effective. While
the focus is mainly on Australia there is also commentary
and analysis of the situations in the UK, New Zealand,
Canada and the USA. Contributors include: Scott Prasser,
Helen Tracey, Rosalind Croucher, Nicholas Aroney, Hon
Geoffrey Davies AO, Janet Ransley, Charles Sampford,
Roger Wettenhall, Gary Banks, Fr Frank Brennan SJ
AO, Rodney Tiffen, Philip Flood AO, Linda Courtenay
Botterill, Paddy Gourley, Stephen Bartos, Tony Makin
and John Humphreys, Henry Ergas and Mark Thomson,
Christian Kerr, Graeme Starr, Alan Simpson, Grant Hoole and Kenneth Kitts.
‘Instincts to lead’: on leadership, peace, and education
-- Donald Markwell with a preface by Elliot F Gerson
In creating the scholarships that bear his name, Cecil
Rhodes had two great objectives: the promotion of publicspirited leadership and of harmony between nations. His
vision was that these could be achieved by giving lifechanging educational opportunities to outstanding young
people with ‘instincts to lead’, and so contributing to a
network of people-to-people relations between countries.
In this volume, the former global head of the Rhodes
Scholarships, Dr Donald Markwell discusses how good
leadership can be promoted, drawing on examples of
leaders from Nelson Mandela to Margaret Thatcher, as well
as other leaders in politics, education, culture, and more.
The vision of Cecil Rhodes to promote international
peace through scholarships that would create ‘educational
relations’ between countries is illustrated here through the experience of the German
Rhodes Scholarships in the 20th century, and points to the value of scholarships to
engage China and other countries in the 21st century. A scholar of international
relations, Dr Markwell also discusses other approaches to promoting peace and
preventing war.
In papers from his experience as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) of the
University of Western Australia and as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, Dr
Markwell discusses the spirit of a university, the value of liberal education, and the
importance of collegiate education and of student engagement in the extra-curricular life of a university campus. These are educational values which the Rhodes
Scholarships have promoted, and which are important to prepare students well for
the challenges of a century of global forces and rapid change.
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Dangerous Ideas
Right Social Justice:
better ways to help the poor
-- Gary Johns (editor)
Price: $29.95
For decades, Social Justice has been trumpeted as the
means of assisting the ‘downtrodden’. Rarely have any of
its proponents proved that it is other than an egalitarian
ideology, without an analytical base. Assisting the ‘poor’
may be a ‘good thing’ but only if programs to aid them
are effective and only if others are not made poor in the
process.
Too often, either the policy prescription or the
analyses of the social problem, or indeed both, are
blinded by the ideology of social justice. The purpose
of the book is to assist those wedded to the principles
of social justice, of whom there are many, to understand
that helping the poor is not straightforward. There are
many counterintuitive schemes to help the poor; they have little to do with the
right to income transfers. Indeed, most people have a non-egalitarian conception
of fairness, based on merit and effort, with equality running a poor third. In these
cases, social justice is seen as a form of insurance, not a right. Social justice often
overplays its hand; this book is a chance to find better ways to help the poor.
Really dangerous ideas:
what does and does not matter
-- Edited by Gary Johns,
Foreword by Judith Sloan
ISBN 9781922168092
Price: $24.95
The inspiration for this book of essays came
from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI).
The Sydney Opera House and the St James
Ethics Centre have hosted FODI for four years.
Although the organisers try to canvass ideas that
appeal across the political spectrum, they are
about as balanced as the ABC1 television’s Q&A
and as subtle as, ‘when did you stop beating your
wife?’
These are beaut little essays, written in
an opinion style, easy to digest, indeed quite
dangerous and perhaps the first of many
volumes.
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Asia
Surviving Angkar: Memories of Life
and Death in Pol Pot’s Kampuchea
-- John Dawson (As told to the
author by Leakhana Om)
ISBN 9781922168764
Price: $22.95
“It is a book that deserves careful reading and then
long pondering on the human condition.” - Professor
Geoffrey Partington
This is a first-hand account of life and death under
the rule of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge between 1975
and 1979. When asked how she survived it, Leakhana’s simple answer is: “I
wanted to live.” That may be the only answer that can be given. Trapped in a
world that considered her life of no value and her death as no loss, she decided she
wanted to live. Surviving Angkar is a compelling story of survival and deliverance, a
penetrating insight into the nature of an inhumane ideology, and a timely resource
of recent world history that needs to be remembered and understood in order to
prevent it being repeated.
Last of the Lands we Know:
Recollections of the Life and Times
of Maev O’Collins
-- Les Coleman
ISBN 9781922168955
Price: $29.95
This book is a retrospective of an intrepid Australian’s
career. Maev O’Collins spent a lifetime as a social
worker and academic, which was divided into three
roughly equal 18-year periods as a social worker
during expansion of the Catholic Family Welfare
Bureau in Melbourne, professor during development of the University of Papua
New Guinea, and consulting and research activities while a Visiting Fellow at
ANU. The book is written anecdotally, with Maev’s depiction of the consequences
of her career strategy of following Robert Frost’s poem and taking ‘the road less
travelled by’ into unfamiliar environments characterised by dangers, confrontations
and personal challenges. Maev explains how she mixed lessons from her parents,
academic study and professional experience to thrive in Papua New Guinea whilst it
struggled to prepare for independence and then shrug off neo-colonial constraints.
Maev describes many adventures ranging from meeting Michael Somare in New
York before he became PNG’s first Prime Minister, through her role as an honorary
aunt at a Manus Island Bride Price ceremony, to lessons from a shark caller. The
book is a primer on adventure, and has much practical advice on how to shape a
career, manage relationships in a foreign culture and keep a positive and forwardlooking outlook on life.
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Italian Studies
Italy and Australia:
An Asymmetrical Relationship
-- Gianfranco Cresciani and
Bruno Mascitelli (editors)
ISBN 9781925138023
Price: $29.95
“…the essays assembled in this volume edited by my old
friend and first student, Gianfranco Cresciani, and by Bruno
Mascitelli of Swinburne University in Melbourne. All the
essays are in some sense focused on what some contemporaries
might think is ‘old fashioned political history’; there is no
mention of emotions, food or dance. The themes are significant. The research is serious. Archives
have been probed and detail from them is made available that was not public before. Australia
and Italy may be quite a long way apart in 2013 and the gap between them may be increasing.
Nonetheless they share quite a bit of history. Important aspects of it are recovered in this
collection of essays. It is as much a part of Australian history as is more familiar tales about
‘resistance’ on the frontier, the growth of mining or the spread of ‘Meals on Wheels’ across the
nation”. -- Professor Richard Bosworth
The Education of Dr Joe
-- Dr Joe Santamaria
ISBN 0975081538
Paperback, 85 pages
Price: $19.95
Catholic Values in the
Australian Public Square
-- Dr Joe Santamaria
ISBN 97819251138030
Price: $22.95
Remembering past experiences that left him with a lasting impression, and with
more time available for musing, Joseph Santamaria - in an amusing way - describes
episodes in his life that shaped his lifestyle and social development. Keen to pass
onto his children their origin and culture, Santamaria’s memories are vivid with
considerable but truthful embellishments. In the 100th year since the arrival of the
Santamaria family in Australia, this collection of stories tells us of the uniqueness
and value of the Santamaria family, as well as the importance of the institution of
the family and the traditions of Dr. Joe’s Italian heritage.
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Satire
Beyond Satire:
Julia Caesar & the Kevin Sutra
-- Rowan Dean
Price: $29.95
Romping hilariously through the three years of the
Gillard/Rudd government, Rowan Dean’s sharp pen and
eagle eye chronicle the finest and funniest moments of
what has been an exhilarating roller-coaster ride. From the
back-stabbing intrigues of Julia Caesar in ancient Rome to
the reincarnation of Kevin VII and the latest positions of the Kevin Sutra, from
Mission Impossible exploits of forged credit cards and high class hookers to evil
climate change denier monsters and ‘the world’s greatest treasurer’, from people
smugglers to pink batts to politician pop stars, the most entertaining political
story in Australian history finally gets the book it richly deserves.
Bringing the House Down
-- Barry Cohen
Price: $29.95
The only thing that kept me sane, well reasonably sane,
during 20 years “hard Labor” was the hilarious things
that my erstwhile colleagues became involved in. Not
every pollie was as witty as Gough Whitlam, Jim Killen,
Jim Cope, Mick Young, Paul Keating, Fred Daly or Peter
Costello but we all got into absurd situations on occasions
– usually by accident. Recording them for posterity has been a service of unalloyed
joy and a million laughs. Bringing the House Down is not a book about the Left-Right
or the Centre. The only test for a story’s inclusion: is it funny?
The Zen of Being Grumpy
-- Mark Lawson
ISBN 9781922168344, Paerback, 118 pages
Price: $24.95
Are you proud to be politically incorrect, loathing alternate
therapies and green activists, then this irreverent send-up
of our modern culture’s fashionable obsessions is for you.
Mark Lawson, whose heroes are Darth Vader and
Ebenezer Scrooge, satirises those things especially dear to
the mass media and chattering classes, like climate change
alarmism and the worship of youth. The Zen of Being Grumpy will resonate with
those of “advanced middle age” and beyond, “who have ceased to care”, yearn
to be “liberated from the perpetual pleas of do-gooders and activists” and keep
themselves busy “ignoring all conscious-raising activities”.
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Immigration
Enemy Aliens: The Internment of Italian
Migrants in Australia During the Second
World War
Price: $19.95
Following Italy’s declaration of war on Britain and France
on June 10th 1940, the Australian authorities carried out the
biggest round-up of civilians of an Italian descent. These
people, because of their background, now became enemy
aliens. These four essays tell of their plight, from Melbourne
to North Queensland and Newcastle, and of those who worked in their defence
against the injustices of the internment policy.
Sorry we have no space -- Joseph Wakim
Price: $29.95
Despite his limited fluency in Arabic after a stint as a street
worker in Adelaide, Joe Wakim reluctantly accepted a job
working with Arab immigrants and refugees in Melbourne’s
outskirts. Just as he was abandoning this ‘dead end’ career,
the 1991 Gulf War erupted and he found himself on the
frontline of advocacy. From obscurity to notoriety, he was
suddenly solicited by ASIO, beckoned by the Prime Minister,
threatened by Islamophobes and ostracised by his ‘faithful flock.’ Ten years later in
2001, he was transferred to Sydney and the September 11 ‘war on terror’ catapulted
him back to the same ‘dangerous intersection’ between community, media and
politics. Through his unique lens, his insights have shed light on monumental
questions: how far have western perceptions of ‘the other’ evolved? Have lessons
been learned or is history repeating itself? Over 500 opinion pieces later, this
inspirational story of how and why this ‘average joe’ became a self-made columnist
and a ‘go to’ voice for the voiceless smashes every Arab stereotype.
Letters to Naples:
A Neapolitan writes home about his work in Melbourne
1919-1928 -- Vincenzo De Francesco SJ
Edited and Translated from the Italian by
Aniello Iannuzzi
Price: $22.95
“These letters of Fr De Francesco, never intended by the author to see
the light of day, are a most worthy monument to a good Jesuit priest as
well as a most significant insight into the life of the Italian community
of Melbourne in the years leading up to the Great Depression.
Everyone interested in the spirit of the Jesuits and in the history of the
Italian community will sincerely thank the efforts of those who have
brought the project to fruition and welcome their publication.” – Fr Steve Curtin SJ
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Immigration
To Bonegilla from Somewhere
-- Wanda Skowronska
ISBN 9781922168733
Price: $29.95
The word Bonegilla resonates deeply with those who
have ever lived there. A place in the bush in northern
Victoria, it was the first home for Displaced Persons
(DPs) after World War Two – many Poles, Czechs,
Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians and Ukrainians
among them. In fact it was the largest migrant
camp in Australia’s history. This was a town like no
other – under southern skies there were echoes of
Warsaw, Budapest, Riga and Prague – as well as talk of vanished worlds and Soviet
post-war realities. This book traces the tumultuous journeys of two DPs, Bogdan
and Valerie, to this strange bush town which came to occupy a unique, mysterious
and iconic place in Australian migration history.
As a ‘Bonegilla kid’ of East European background, Wanda Skowronska has
spent much of her life spelling the word Bonegilla to those who have never heard
of it. With family members on several continents, she lives in Sydney and works as
an educational psychologist. She also writes for several periodicals, being a regular
contributor to Annals. She completed her Doctorate in 2011.
Ciao Mate! A Collection of Essays
by Iconic Italo-Australians:
Carla Zampatti, Nicola Cerrone,
Salvatore Zofrea + many more
-- Edited by Aniello Iannuzzi
ISBN 9781922168429
Price: $24.95
At a time when multiculturalism and Australia’s
recent immigration policies have been questioned
and even criticised it is timely to reflect on one
of the great success stories of the post-World War II period, namely the
role of Italian immigrants in enriching every facet of Australian life. Few
national groups have rivalled the Italian contribution. This collection of
fascinating personal stories come from a selection of Italian Australians
who have made their mark in the worlds of politics, religion, medicine,
journalism, justice, art, music, fine wines, restaurants, high fashion, and
more. The stories highlight both the central importance of religious faith,
family life and food for those of Italian extraction along with the writers’
wide range of attitudes and experiences.
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Academia
A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian postgraduate students
and American postgraduates degrees 1949-1964
-- Dr Sally Ninham
ISBN 9781921421853
Price: $39.95
“What happened to a group of Australian scholars all of
whom went to the USA for graduate & related studies? Their
immersion into the well resourced USA PhD environment
with significant research facilities, libraries and stimulating
environments of scholars lasted them a lifetime. All had or
could have had scholarships to Oxford or Cambridge, the
normal destiny of Australian Masters or post-Masters
students. Sally Ninham follows their stories and importantly
the stories of their wives. Almost all of these US Graduates
returned to Australia to pursue their careers in academia, the
law and the corporate world. Their contribution to Australian
scholarship, intellectual leadership and Australian society
has been significant. Ninham has documented a host of
important careers, and the contributions that many made
to the transformation of the Australian academy after the
Second World War. All of these deserve the analysis in this book.”
- Professor Tom Healy AO, a Columbia University, New York PhD, 1963.
Australian Intellectuals:
Their strange history & pathological tendencies
-- Greg Melleuish
Price: $19.95
This culture of intellectuals became embedded in key
institutions, including the universities, the world of
the arts and the ABC. It became a subculture isolated
from mainstream Australia in intellectual ghettos. It
is a world which bristles with hostility, negativity and
nihilism.
History has been a favoured domain for
Australian intellectuals and they heartedly condemn
the Australian past and the Australian people. The
only problem is that the more they blacken the
past the more they turn off students from studying
history. The result is a real crisis in the study of the
Australian past.
The only way forward is a much more sober and
sensible approach by intellectuals, especially in terms
of appreciating our Western heritage.
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Climate Change
Heaven+Earth
- Global Warming: The Missing Science
-- Ian Plimer
Price: $39.95
International Best-Seller
Recommended by Václav Klaus, Former President of the EU, 2009.
“This is a very powerful, clear, understandable and extremely useful
book. Ian Plimer fully exploits his unique scientific background
in geology, his life-long academic experience, and his broad, truly
interdisciplinary knowledge to dismantle the currently popular,
politically correct but rationally untenable and indefensible position
that the Earth is approaching catastrophic climate change and that
we have to react – at all costs – to prevent it.
Professor Plimer argues that the undergoing climate change is
not unprecedented in history and that the temperatures in the 20th
Century are not outside the range of natural variability. He rejects
the unscientific idea that the explanation of climate change can be
reduced to one variable (CO2), the proposition that there is a strong
relationship between measured temperature and CO2 emissions, and the almost religious belief
that we will stop climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. He rightly assumes that humans
will be able to adapt to any future coolings or warmings.”
How To Get Expelled From School: A guide to climate
change for pupils, parents and punters -- Ian Plimer
Foreword by Václav Klaus
Price: $29.95
Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political
propaganda on climate change? Now is your chance to
find out. Professor Plimer gives 101 simple questions with
answers for you to ask teachers, activists, journalists and
politicians. The climate industry adjusts the temperature
record and withholds raw data, computer codes and
information from scrutiny. Computer predictions of a
scary future don’t agree with measurements. Past natural
climate changes have been larger and more rapid than the
worst case predictions yet humans adapted. Is humaninduced global warming the biggest financial and scientific
scam in history? If it is, we will pay dearly.
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Climate Change
A Guide to Climate Change Lunacy: bad forecasting, terrible
solutions
-- Mark Lawson
Price: $29.95
As Mark Lawson explains in this book, in layman’s
language, Climate Change Lunacy has been compounded
by further forecasts based on these already deeply
flawed projections and combined with active
imaginations, to produce wild statements about what
will happen to plant, animal, bird and marine life, as
well as coral reefs, hurricanes, sea levels, agriculture and
polar ice caps. The books shows that these projections
are little more than fantasy.
On top of all this lunacy activists, aided and abetted
by some scientists, have proposed a range of solutions
to the supposed problem that are either never going
to work, such as an international agreement to cut
emissions, or are overly complicated and expensive
for no proven return, such as carbon trading systems
and wind energy. None of these proposals have been shown to be of any use in
reducing carbon emissions, outside of theoretical studies. Where wind energy has
been used in substantial amounts overseas the sole, known result has been very
expensive electricity for no observed saving in emissions.
The Climate Caper
-- Garth W Paltridge
Price: $24.95
In his book The Climate Caper, with a light touch and
nicely readable manner, Professor Paltridge shows that
the case for action against climate change is not nearly
so certain as is presented to politicians and the public.
He leads us through the massive uncertainties which are
inherently part of the ‘climate modelling process’; he
examines the even greater uncertainties associated with
economic forecasts of climatic doom; and he discusses
in detail the conscious and sub-conscious forces
operating to ensure that scepticism within the scientific
community is kept from the public eye.
It seems that governments are indeed becoming
captive to a scientific and technological elite – an elite
which is achieving its ends by manipulating fear of
climate change into the world’s greatest example of a religion for the politically
correct.
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Climate Change
The Delinquent Teenager Who Was
Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate
Expert -- Donna Laframboise
Price: $29.95
Cited by governments around the world, the Climate
Bible is the reason carbon taxes are being introduced,
heating bills are rising, and costly new regulations
are being enacted. It is why everyone thinks carbon
dioxide emissions are dangerous. Put simply: the entire
planet is in a tizzy because of a United Nations report.
What most of us don’t know is that, rather than being written by a meticulous,
upstanding professional in business attire, the Climate Bible is produced by a
slapdash, slovenly teenager who has trouble distinguishing right from wrong. This
exposé, by an investigative journalist, is the product of two years of research. Its
conclusion: almost nothing we’ve been told about the IPCC is true.
The New Emperor’s Novel Clothes
-- A I Adam
with a Foreword by Alan Moran
Price: $39.95
Like the boy in the fairy tale, the author points out that
the climate “emperor” also has no clothes. Making
extensive use of documentary evidence from across
the scientific spectrum he demonstrates that the alleged
“consensus” of the climate scientists is non-existent.
The writer examines in detail the UN Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and finds there is no credible
scientific evidence to back up the claims of imminent climate catastrophe.
Killing the Earth to Save it: How
Environmentalists are ruining the
planet, destroying the economy and
stealing your jobs -- James Delingpole
Price: $29.95
Polar bear populations are on the increase, so why are
we worrying about them? Global warming is better
than global cooling, so why are we trying to stop it?
James Delingpole the outspoken blogger and author
who helped break the Climategate scandal tells the shocking true story of how a
handful of political activists, green campaigners and voodoo scientists engineered
the biggest, most expensive and destructive outbreak of mass hysteria.
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Connor Court Quarterly
onnor Court Quarterly (CCQ) is a periodical, non-subscription
magazine whose focus is on the history, culture and religion in the
Western Tradition. By the term Western Tradition, we mean that
distinctive mix of languages, formal institutions (especially universities), cultural practices and achievements, and philosophical and religious outlooks
which had their genesis in ancient Greece and Rome, their gradual development in the history of Europe, and their subsequent transmission to the
New World after the Age of Discovery.
We believe that the achievements of this Tradition are now under attack from many quarters
with negative implications for the maintenance
of a common moral order, for a shared understanding of what it means to be human, and
for a similar shared understanding of the limitations of human achievement. The Quarterly
also hopes to be a vehicle for the transmission
of those areas of culture which have enriched
the Western mind since the time of Homer.
Whilst this may be interpreted as a broadly
conservative outlook, the editorial board
of CCQ believes that the focus of this new
magazine sets it apart from what might be
termed ‘standard’ conservatism. Today, a great
deal of what passes for conservative thought is actually a species of liberalism.
It has its genesis in the European Enlightenment and is generally dismissive of
that whole period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Reformation.
Popular conservatism is also often aggressively secular in outlook and, while
it may pay lip service to religious belief, it often sees religion as obscurantist.
For CCQ, the term Tradition is inescapably linked to religion, making it much
more than simply a set of customs or habits. Moreover, it is only within the
bounds of an intact Tradition (with its attendant religious beliefs) that any
moral rules can be validated.
CONTRIBUTORS NEEDED
CONTACT - BRIAN COMAN: [email protected]
Issue 5/6 - The Christian View of History & the Revival of the Liberal Arts
Collected Papers from a Colloquium held at Sydney, Australia, 2012.
Issue 7 - Winter 2013
Feature Articles: How Poets became the only Philosophers. Brunelleschi’s Dome.
Issue 8 - Spring/Summer 2013/14
Feature Articles: Secret Gardens: The Chadwick-Taper Interviews. Priests without Surplices.
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Aboriginal Studies
In black & white:
Australians All at the Crossroads
-- Edited: Rhonda Craven, Anthony
Dillon and Nigel Parbury
Price: $29.95
“I look forward to the success of this important work; to seeing it
in our schools, in our libraries and to see its impact on the thoughts
and processes of governments, their departments and other relevant
organisations. The issues highlighted by the authors impact on the lives
of all Australians; your contribution to a better road ahead for Australians All is most
appreciated.” - Adam Giles, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
Aboriginal Self-Determination:
The Whiteman’s Dream
-- Gary Johns
Foreword by Bess Nungarrayi Price MP
Price: $29.95
“The old Law was not about human rights. It was about unconditional
loyalty and obedience … We still respect and honour our ancestors and
want to keep our culture. But my people are confused. If they go the
blackfella way they break whitefella law, if they go whitefella way they
break blackfella law. Our young men are caught in the middle, that’s why they fill up the jails ... We
now need to change the letter of our Law to keep its spirit alive. We need to do this ourselves but
with the support of governments and our fellow citizens”
-- From the foreword by Bess Nungarrayi Price
Liberating Aboriginal People from Violence
-- Dr Stephanie Jarrett
There is a reluctance to scrutinise and address the fundamental
cultural generators of Aboriginal violence. Where violence
is seen as part of culture, too often it is defended as the
culture’s “right” to practice it. Above all, the separatist selfdetermination model maintains customs that are dangerous,
particularly to women and young people. Hence, if we keep
to a separatist, self-determination model, we will keep having
to have crisis responses, major enquiries and interventions,
and decades more of assaulted Aboriginal women and
young people facing the terrible dilemma of abandoning
their country, their community, to get some safety. Reducing
Aboriginal violence entails fundamental cultural change.
This book explores ways that the nation can assist remote Aboriginal people to
have frequent, welcoming, positive interaction with, mainstream culture, so that
acquisition of the mainstream’s higher intolerance for violence can occur.
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Education
Educating your child:
it’s not rocket science
-- Dr Kevin Donnelly
Price: $19.95
Are you a good parent and what is the best way to raise
your child? Are the tiger mums correct and do Australian
children need more discipline and tougher expectations?
There are no simple answers and there’s no doubt that being
a parent these days is no longer easy or straightforward.
Some mums and dads are criticised for being helicopter parents and smothering
their children in cotton wool. Educating your child: it’s not rocket science provides an
easy to read, comprehensive guide to being a good parent, with suggestions and
advice proving that it’s not rocket science and that every parent can succeed. As
every parent knows, the most precious gift we can give our children is a good
education and a sound footing to help them meet life’s challenges.
How Will Our Children Learn? Choosing Better
Schools: Educational Excellence in Every Postcode
-- Michael Hewitson
This book asks the big questions of what life is about.
How will our children know what is important? How will
we know that our children have at least learnt the basics?
How did one State School for a decade become the
property of the unionised staff room? Why did parents
choose a new school in a dusty paddock – a school without
tradition, money or resources? This story of a teacher and
principal affects us all. It is about choosing a better school
for our children in every postcode across Australia. This
is a book about Public Education, its importance and how
to better provide it. Public education fails in the lower
socioeconomic areas of Australia: this story reveals what
we need to know in order to provide effective schools,
and what parents need to know to choose an effective school.
Stop, Don’t Read: Essays and Poems
-- Roger Sworder
Price: $19.95
Sworder has written two essays especially for this edition
of his poems. The book starts with “Why Poetry?’ and
finishes with a brief account of the major forms of
English verse.
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Education
The Little Black School Book
-- Dr Mark Lopez
Volume 1 - Essays:
ISBN 9781921421075
Price: $29.95
Volume 2 - Exams:
ISBN 9781921421174
Price: $29.95
When you understand how the education system
works, really works, then you can turn both its strengths and weaknesses to
your advantage. The Little Black School Book does for education what Niccolo
Machiavelli’s The Prince did for politics. The Little Black School Book covers research,
essay writing, clear thinking, expression, and much more, in innovative ways that
give students solid skills and confidence. But more than this, The Little Black School
Book shows students what goes on in examiners’ minds and, more importantly,
how to capitalise decisively on this insight. This is the formerly missing piece of
the puzzle.
Australia’s Education Revolution:
How Kevin Rudd won and lost the
education wars
-- Dr Kevin Donnelly
ISBN 9781921421297
Price: $29.95
This collection of opinion pieces, primarily taken from
The Australian newspaper, traces the rise and fall of
Rudd’s education revolution and provides a detailed
account of Australia’s education wars. Issues include,
school accountability and league tables, teacher merit pay, why Catholic and independent schools should be funded by government, why standards have fallen and
the impact of Australia’s dumbed down and politically correct curriculum. Dr
Donnelly also details what needs to be done to have a real education revolution,
including how to strengthen government schools.
Are you a potential author with an unpublished manuscript?
Ask for our submission guidelines
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Society
Me Land: 10 Ways Self-Obsession Makes You Stupid
-- Kerry Cue
ISBN 9781922168108, Paperback, 262 pages, Price $24.95
Who are you?, What do you stand for?
What is the meaning of your life?
In our globalised, market-driven, click-on click-off culture
we not only fail to answer these questions, we can’t even
focus on them for long. In MeLand, Kerry Cue shows how
our mass-marketing culture spreads self-obsession and how,
paradoxically, this self-obsession erodes your individuality,
undermines your identity and, ultimately, diminishes your
self-respect. Self-obsession disconnects you from your
family, your community and, ironically, from understanding
‘who you are’ and ‘what you stand for.’ In this entertaining
and insightful book, Cue employs classic marketing tools to
counter the culture. From the Dumb Ass Meme to Pimp
My Libido, Cue uses humour, catchy slogans and sizzling,
sexed-up allure to look at 10 Ways Self-Obsession Makes
You Stupid. MeLand is the antidote to the toxic mass-marketing propaganda that
constantly tells you that ‘you are special’, but not special enough, apparently, to think
for yourself.
Living Together with Disagreement: Pluralism, the
Secular, and the Fair Treatment of Beliefs in Law Today
-- Iain Benson
Price: $14.95
In this incisive and thought-provoking study, legal expert Iain Benson confronts
crucial and controversial issues in the relation between religion and to-day’s
pluralistic, secular state. He reminds us of the original and proper sense of the
“secular”, not as meaning “anti-religious” but as encompassing without prejudice
differing forms of religious belief and disbelief.
The Light River -- Hal Colebatch
Foreword by Les Murray
WINNER PREMIER’S PRIZE FOR POETRY
Price: $22.95
The Light River is Hal Colebatch's seventh collection of
poetry. The poems range from the romantic love-story
"Redhead with Phosphorus," to the high and epic heroism of "The San Demetrio." Many are lyrical evocations
of Western Australia and in particular the Swan River
and Rottnest Island, with travels and meditations in Britain, Asia, Canada and the
Middle East. If you love the Swan River in Perth, then this is the book for you.
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Economics
Bad Economics:
Pestilent Economists, Profligate
Governments, Debt, Dependency &
Despair -- Peter Smith
Price: $29.95
Bad Economics is a book for everyone who wants to
understand why things have gone wrong rather than
slavishly accepting the mainstream version of events. It
takes on the illusions and delusions which regularly shape
economic policy.
Absolutely no knowledge of economics is needed; only common sense and an
open mind. It explains how bad economics is ruining Western societies, while good
economics has been pushed aside. Its aim, by exposing the bad, is to contribute to
the revival of the good.
Lessons from the Global Financial
Crisis: The Relevance of Adam Smith
on Morality and Free Markets
-- Richard M. Morgan
ISBN 9781921421303
Price: $19.95
Adam Smith was an advocate of the free market, however
his first work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was on ethics
and was widely acclaimed at the time. Commentators
have tended to review this work as separate to his work on political economy.
However the global financial crisis has shown the relevance of morality and the
free market.
Independence and the Death
Employment -- Ken Phillips
of
Price: $39.95
Every day, when you ‘go to work’, you are involved in
legal and human relationships that have a vast impact on
who you are or, more significantly, who you are allowed
to be. It is these ideas that Ken Phillips rattles. What is
your career? Who defines your work life? What does it
mean to manage or be managed? What is the firm? How
do organizations achieve their objectives and make profit?
How are these things---and you---controlled and regulated? These are just some
of the questions which flow from this book. Professional managers, national and
international policy makers, economists, labour lawyers and entrepreneurs will find
much in here of deep interest.
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Family Life
Caring for Somebody with Dementia
-- Merideth Sindel
Price: $24.95
Nobody expects their parent to get dementia. But for
Merideth, her mother did get dementia and for the next three
years she became her full time carer. This book describes the
experiences of life with dementia over those years. Dementia
sat himself between Merideth and her mother – or at least
he tried to. Dementia was a spiteful fellow and had brought
with it the more obvious symptoms - delusions, anxiety,
depression, memory loss. This book details the causes of dementia, mechanisms for
dealing with symptoms and offers advice on personal care, frailty and the practicalities
of caring. It also gives insight into the vital issue of how to maintain communication
with somebody with dementia. This book is written with compassion, humour and
love offering a wealth of practical information to others living or working with people
with dementia.
Maybe ‘I Do’: Modern Marriage and the Pursuit of
Happiness -- Kevin Andrews
Full Version - ISBN 9781922168016, Paperback, 483 pages
Price: $39.95
Abridged Version - ISBN 9781925138122, Paperback, 180 pages
Price: $24.95
Thousands of social science results indicate that a healthy,
stable and happy marriage is an optimal relationship for the
psychological, emotional and physical well being of adults
and children. Functional families are one of the strongest
influences on the growth of human competence, and mental
and emotional well being. At a time when marriage and
family are under constant siege, Kevin Andrews’ thoroughly
researched book provides a timely and telling case for making
the strengthening of these essential bedrocks of a healthy
society a number one priority.
Everyone Pretend to be Normal - Navigating the World of
Autism
-- Rochelle Miller
Price: $24.95
This book is an autobiographical account of one family’s
journey through the puzzling maze of autism, as narrated by
mother Rochelle Miller. Sometimes wry and irreverent, it tells
of the challenges and triumphs involved with caring for two
sons with Autism Spectrum Disorder, examining a serious
subject in a sometimes not-so-serious light.a human face on
the illness.
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Nature
Organics in the Global Food Chain
-- Edited by Bruno Mascitelli & Antonio Lobo
This long overdue scholarly treatment of organic food
provides a multifaceted view of the obscure but growing
concept of organic food in our food chain. Today’s society
has a greater appreciation of quality in what we eat and
consume including a greater appreciation of sustainability,
food security and the other attributes which food should
provide society. This book explores the origins and drivers of
organic food and opens up this sector to greater scrutiny and
debate on the worthiness of organic food as an alternative to
our normal staple diet.
Little Green Lies: An exposé of 12 environmental
myths -- Jeff Bennett
The natural environment matters a lot to many people. Their views on issues
such as recycling, population control, economic growth and
renewable energy are often held strongly and emotionally.
But some of these views are best described as ‘little green
lies’. Sometimes people bend the truth because they
believe they are protecting others from the harm caused
by environmental decay. Others do it for personal gain.
But unlike ‘little white lies’, telling ‘little green lies’ is not
harmless. If they become so widely accepted that they form
the basis of government policies, our society can be worse
off for them. They can even end up causing environmental
damage.
Rain and Shine: A Simple Guide on How Plants Grow
-- David F. Smith
This book enable readers to understand the basics, whether
it be as a good earth citizen or as a producer of the things
plants give us: food, fibre, beauty and comfort. The first part
reminds us of our utter dependence on green plants for our
supply of energy from the sun through the process of green
plant photosynthesis, building up a range of carbohydrates
and thence a myriad of organic chemicals. The oxygen derived
from photosynthesis makes other life possible, so much and
in intricate arrangements between living things in ecosystems.
The second part traces the growing awareness of humans
of the secret life of plants and the more recent scientific
understanding of the processes, especially in producing food
for the people of the planet.
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Health
Determining the Future: A Fair Go & Health for All
-- Edited Martin Laverty and Liz Callaghan
Price: $29.95
At different stages of a person’s life, the presence or
absence of certain social building blocks will determine
how long we live and how healthy we will be during our
lifetime. Experts know these building blocks as the social
determinants of health – the conditions in which we are
born, grow, live, work and age. And, according to the World
Health Organisation, it is the social determinants of health
which are mostly responsible for the unfair and avoidable
differences in health status seen within and between
countries. This book brings together a unique collection
of essays on the social determinants of health from some
of Australia’s leading health and social policy experts –
medical professionals, academics, opinion leaders, thinkers
and writers. Contained within its pages are diverse and confronting policy and
practical proposals that invite all Australian governments to broaden their health
policy parameters to include a new focus on the social determinants of health.
The book shows a way forward. It offers tangible solutions to help Australia
build a more just and better health system–one premised on a fair go and health
for all.
Bouncing Back Later in Life: On How to Age Well and
Overcome Difficulties
-- Edited by Goetz Ottmann
With Resilience Tips from Nancy Iacono
Price: $29.95
How do we age well? This question concerns many of us
who are facing the prospects of living beyond our 80s and
even 90s. As we live longer, we are also likely to face more
challenges that will shake our foundations. How can we
overcome these challenges, bounce back and lead a fulfilling
life?
This book captures the insights of 20 older people and
caregivers who lived through rough patches and managed to
come out at the other end. Their stories are both inspiring
as they are moving.
Goetz Ottmann’s book captures some of the strategies
that have helped the people in this book to bounce back, to move on, and to cope
with the challenges bound up with advancing age. This is not a book of rules. It’s
an account of what has worked for other people that might inspire the reader to ask
the fundamental question: What has worked for me? Much can be learnt from our
response to this question.
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Australian Story
The riddle of Les Coleman MP: Life and Times of the
Democractic Labor Party’s (DLP) first leader
--Les Coleman (grandson)
Paperback, ISBN 9781925138153, 300 pages approx.
Price: $29.95
Les Coleman, a public accountant and hotel keeper, was born and bred Labor
in inner Melbourne. As transport minister in John Cain’s 1952 government, he
tamed a runaway transport budget, anchored development of the 1956 Melbourne
Olympics and seemed set for political stardom. But in the ALP Split of 1955,
he turned against lifelong political friends and went with the catholic-dominated
Democratic Labor Party whose Victorian MPs elected him the party’s first leader.
This book uses interviews with a wide cross-section of Coleman’s colleagues,
friends and family to explain the riddle of what forced him to abandon his
promising political career.
Nat Bonacci: No Ordinary Australian -- Robert Pascoe
ISBN 9781922168047, Hardback, 220 pages, Price: $39.95
‘Australia was made for work!’ was one of Luigi Grollo’s
favourite sayings. When the Italians, arrived in Australia,
there was plenty of work to be done – roads paved,
swimming pools poured, skyscrapers dreamt up – and a
staid building game was to be turned on its head. Among
this number of newcomers from Italy was Natale Bonacci,
born in Calabria and raised in Myrtleford, a tobacco farmer’s
son who helped build many iconic buildings in Melbourne
and elsewhere. Nat Bonacci was a valued contributor to the
Melbourne University school of engineering, an enthusiast
to the Catholic cause in education and healthcare, and a
cherished member of the community.
An Active Journey: The Peter Nixon Story
-- Peter Nixon, With a Foreword by Geoffrey Blainey
ISBN 9781921421600, Hardback, 300 pages, Price: $39.95
Peter Nixon traces the story of his life from early childhood
to the present day. He begins by recounting his upbringing
on a farm in East Gippsland and school years in Melbourne
where suffered a life changing hip injury. Peter then reflects
on the beginnings of his career in federal politics where
he first made his name as a public figure. He gives readers
an insider’s account of federal politics where he was first
elected during the Menzies’ years and served as Minister for
the Interior, Transport and Primary Industry in the Holt,
McEwen, Gorton, McMahon and Fraser governments.
He also recounts the disastrous years of the Whitlam
government and its eventual dismissal in 1975.
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History
World History: Volume 1:
People and their Gods to the 1770s
-- Robert Pascoe
ISBN 9781922168610
Price: $39.95
World History: Volume 2:
Human Destiny in Human Hands
-- Robert Pascoe
ISBN 9781922168757
Price: $39.95
World History is both the story of humankind and an introduction to the discipline of
History. This book (in two volumes) will give you greater confidence in understanding,
organising and revising your content knowledge of World History, but will also
introduce you to the techniques used by historians to analyse and explain the past.
History demands a specific set of techniques and a mode of thinking. Any history
book or article that you read began life as the application of these techniques to a
body of evidence, known as ‘primary sources’. Each unit here is accompanied by
one or more relevant primary sources, as well as suggestions of books, articles and
websites for further reading.
Great Crises of Capitalism
-- PD Jonson
ISBN 9781921421891
Price: $29.95
The financial world is experiencing increasing financial
volatility with far more frequent financial booms and
busts. Dr Peter Jonson is a former Chief Economist at
the Reserve Bank of Australia and a lifelong economic
thinker and writer.
In Great Crises of Capitalism, 400 years of capitalist
progress are summarised, including the costly setbacks
from major wars and repeated episodes of financial instability. With such episodes
occurring with greater frequency, this presents great dangers and also great
opportunities for governments and for professional investors.
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History
Melbourne before Mannix:
Catholics in Public Life 1880-1920 -- Patrick Morgan
What sort of archdiocese did Dr Mannix inherit when he
arrived in Melbourne in 1913? This book describes the great
flowering of Catholic life during the reign of Archbishop
Carr, when Melbourne achieved pre-eminence among
Australian Catholic archdioceses. The principal institutions,
and the lay and clerical Catholics who helped achieve
this leadership role, feature prominently in this narrative.
In addition Melbourne became the focal point of Irish
Catholic consciousness in Australia. After decades of great
stability Mannix arrived at a time when a cascading series
of world events was jolting people out of their comfort
zones, and at a place which had prepared itself for the first
intrusion of Irish events into Australian public life.
William Wardell: Building with Conviction -- A.G. Evans
Born into lowly circumstances in London’s East End in
1823 William Wardell became one of Australia’s greatest
architects whose crowning works are his two cathedrals,
St Mary’s, Sydney and St Patrick’s, Melbourne. As well as
being a leading exponent of Gothic Revival architecture
of the 19th century, he served for a period as Chief
Architect in the Victorian Public Works Department
where he stamped his character and his high standards
on many of Melbourne’s best-loved public buildings
including his own design, Government House.
A Saviour of Living Cargoes: The Life and Work of
Caroline Chisholm -- Carole Walker
Caroline Chisholm’s philanthropic work was of lasting
benefit to British emigrants and colonies. In New South
Wales, she found shelter and employment for female
immigrants and pressed officials to adopt her schemes for
settling families on the land. In London, she arranged free
passages for emancipists’ wives and children and encouraged
families to emigrate to Australia. In the Victorian goldfields,
she provided accommodation for the needy traveller. She
cared little for personal reward or position; and by her own
endeavours and careful persuasion, she demonstrated her
faith in people, the strength of womanhood, and the need
to help working people and their families.
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Remarkable Australians
Roddy’s Folly: R. P. Meagher QC
– art lover and lawyer
-- Damien Freeman
With a Foreword by the Hon Justice J. D. Heydon
AC, illustrations by the Hon Michael Kirby AC
Price: $39.95
“No-one will ever appreciate the whole truth about Rod Meagher.
Although this book is in a sense only one perception of it, it is an
acute and rich perception... Readers will be deeply grateful to Damien
Freeman for his labours and his reflections on the magnificence of that astonishing subject.” The Hon. Justice J. D. Heydon AC – High Court of Australia
A Midlife Journey -- Gerald O’Collins, with a Foreword
by George Carey, Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Price: $29.95
This midlife journey coincided with events that swept
the world in the sixties and seventies: the death of
President Kennedy, May ’68 in France, the Soviet invasion
of Czechoslovakia, the Vietnam War, and the spiritual
revolution caused by Vatican II.
On the Left Bank of the Tiber
-- Gerald O’Collins SJ
Price: $29.95
On the Left Bank of the Tiber covers thirty-two years
teaching at the Gregorian University in Rome (1974-2006)—a story peopled with
students, professors, visitors, Italian friends and, of course, popes.
The Billings Enigma -- Tess Livingstone
This dynamic book tells the story of two remarkable
Melbourne doctors who developed a method of natural
fertility regulation in response to the needs of Catholic
families in Melbourne which subsequently achieved its
greatest success in the largest Communist country in
the world, China. With missionary zeal Drs John and
Evelyn Billings took their Billings Ovulation Method to
the world, from the bustling slums of India to behind the
Iron Curtain in the days of the Cold War, from the dust
and heat of Africa to the carnival atmosphere of Brazil,
travelling hundreds of thousands of air miles over more
than a quarter of a century.
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Cardinal George Pell
God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics
and Society -- Cardinal George Pell
The secular era of the past two centuries is ending in incomprehension and denial,
overwhelmed by the cultural uncertainty and political conflict that have dominated the first years of the new millennium. In the face of developments secularism has little to
say. What does remain is a vociferous hostility to religion, especially to the role it plays in public life. The ensuing conflict
continues to play itself out in politics, culture, science and
the universities. New phenomena such as multiculturalism
and significant Muslim minorities have both arisen in the
West. But the focus of suspicion has remained squarely on
Christianity and its relationship to democracy, human rights,
and secular society. God and Caesar brings together a selection
of his writings on Christianity, politics, and society from the
last ten years.
Contemplating Christ with Luke -- Cardinal George Pell
Contemplating Christ with Luke comprises a series of reflections
on a year's Sunday readings from the Gospel of St. Luke. In
his typical down-to-earth style, Cardinal Pell uses contemporary events and landmarks to enrich our appreciation of
the Gospel's spiritual messages. As Cardinal Pell notes in his
informative introduction, St. Luke's Gospel is especially appealing: “Luke is a polished story teller, more eloquent than
the other gospel writers, even if he is less dramatic than St.
John at his best. We must be grateful, as St. Ambrose, the
Archbishop of Milan in the second half of the fourth century pointed out, because St. Luke 'told us more about Our
Lord’s wonderful works than the other Evangelists’.”
Test Everything; Hold Fast to What is Good
-- Cardinal George Pell
AT a time when "the God question'' has rarely been as
controversial, Test Everything, Hold Fast to What is Good puts
the case that: "It is more reasonable to believe in God than
to reject the hypothesis of God by appealing to chance.
Goodness, truth and beauty call for an explanation as do
the principles of mathematics, physics, and the purposedriven miracles of biology which run through our universe.'' Regardless of whether readers share his values and
outlook, Cardinal George Pell has given them a provocative incitement to think and wonder about life's biggest
questions that confront us all, sooner or later.
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Ethics
Manual of Catholic Ethics -- Editors: Cardinal W.J.
Eijk, L.J.M. Hendriks, Dr. J.A. Raymakers and J.I.
Fleming
ISBN 9781925138160, Hardback, 720 pages
Price: $79.95
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE
DUTCH LANGUAGE
Modern medical technology and therapeutic options are
in constant development and are far from having reached
their limits. Many healthcare workers, biomedical scientists,
pastoral caregivers and also patients wonder which the moral
consequences are and which the constraints.
From their expertise in the field of medicine and ethics and
from the perspective of the practice of healthcare, the authors
offer a helping hand in answering these questions. Taking into
account the most recent developments many actual questions
are discussed. They are presented according to the phases of life where medicalethical questions may arise. Well-argued answers to these questions and dilemmas
are given, based on the teachings of the Catholic Church. May these provide in a
need of Catholic healthcare workers, who nowadays are searching for sources of
Politics and Universal Ethics
-- Rabbi Shimon Cowen
Price: $22.95
Politics and Universal Ethics explores dimensions of universal ethics:
its engagement of the ideology which opposes it, its involvement
in legislative struggles, the compatibility of universal ethics with
human freedom, creativity and diversity, and how a political
culture of universal ethics may be forged.
Entrepreneurship in the Catholic Tradition
-- Anthony Percy
Price: $29.95
“This is a book for which many have been waiting. It undermines
stereotypes of Catholic thought about free enterprise and business
while simultaneously challenging us to root entrepreneurship in a
richer and deeper understanding of the human person. Anthony G.
Percy brings together good theology, good philosophy, sound economics,
and an appreciation for the full complexity of Catholicism’s positive
view of the entrepreneur.”
—Robert A. Sirico, Acton Institute
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About Bioethics
About Bioethics Book Series
Volume 4: Motherhood, Embodied Love and Culture
-- Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
Volume 3: Transplantation, Biobanks and the Human Body
Volume 2: Caring for People who are Sick or Dying
Volume 1: Philosophical and Theological Approaches
Policy in Bioethics develops when people can reach
agreement. We make progress when we listen to each
other. About Bioethics series explains the different secular and theological approaches to Bioethics, seeking to
identify strengths as well as weaknesses because it is the
strengths that produce good policy. In each case the assumptions and structure of the moral reasoning adopted
are explored including a reflection on the role of religion
in a secular society and a constructive approach to teaching Bioethics. The books in the series include Care of
the Sick and Dying, Donating Human Organs and Tissue, Man and Woman He Made Them, Motherhood and
Technology, and Protecting the Human Person. The latter is to cover a range of issues such as Experimentation
on Human Beings, Capital Punishment, Torture, Identity
and Cooperation with Evil.
Dignitatis Humanae
-- John Fleming
Price: $22.95
Politics and Universal Ethics explores dimensions of universal ethics:
its engagement of the ideology which opposes it, its involvement
in legislative struggles, the compatibility of universal ethics with
human freedom, creativity and diversity, and how a political
culture of universal ethics may be forged.
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Religion
Question Time 1 : 150 Questions and
Answers on the Catholic Faith
-- Fr John Flader
Price: $29.95 (Third Edition - Revised and with Index)
Question Time 2: Another 150 Questions
and Answers on the Catholic Faith
-- Fr John Flader
The book is written in a balanced, easy-to-read style and contains a wealth of
information that will be invaluable for anyone who is interested in finding out
more about the Catholic faith or who is in a position to hand on the faith to others: priests, teachers, catechists, parents, RCIA coordinators, sacramental program
coordinators, recent converts.
New Evangelisation: Pastoral Strategy for the Church at
the beginning of the Third Millennium
-- Julian Porteous
ISBN 9781925138252, Paperback, 234 Pages, Price: $24.95
Evangelii Nuntiandi, had a profound effect on me. As I read
it I saw the nature of the mission of the Church presented
in a clear and decisive manner. This mission was to proclaim
Jesus Christ to the world and to enable people to enter into
a real and personal relationship with him... This book brings
together my developing understanding of what evangelisation
entails. It gives expression to what I have experienced over a
period of some 40 years of being actively involved in various works of evangelisation and to my deep conviction that
the new evangelisation must be the pastoral strategy for the
Church as it enters the third millennium of Christianity.
Yoga, Tai Chi and Reiki: A Guide for Christians
-- Br Max Sculley
ISBN 9781921421716, Paperback, 188 pages,
Price: $24.95
Max Sculley’s definitive critique of Yoga, Tai Chi and Reiki
comes with a timely warning that despite these practices’ surface
appeal for helping fitness, relaxation and health, they are closely
linked to underlying Eastern philosophies that are incompatible
with Christianity. Despite warnings about Yoga, Tai Chi and
Reiki, it continues to be promoted in parishes, schools and
religious orders. Max Sculley’s detailed and well documented
analysis of Yoga, Tai Chi and Reika includes gripping personal
stories that bring home the dark side of these practices.
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Religion
Listening, Learning and Leading:
The impact of Catholic identity and
mission
-- Edited by Gabrielle McMullen and
John Warhurst
ISBN 9781925138177, Paperback,
200 pages
Price: $29.95
Many of the chapters in this book are based on papers
presented at a conference organised by Catholic Social
Services Victoria in 2013. The topic of that conference,
the impact of Catholic identity and mission on what we do and how we do it, is
relevant to the many parts of the Church working in a culturally diverse Australia.
The aim of the conference was to enhance the contribution of the Church to
the building of a more just and compassionate society – to enhance our work in
building the Kingdom. This book extends that work.
Governing in Faith: Foundations for Formation
-- John Henry Thornber and Michael Gaffney
Price: $29.95
"Recent years have seen significant changes in the various institutions sponsored and operated by the Catholic Church. Probably
one of the most important of these is the fact that the governance
of these institutions – works of education, health care, aged care,
and social services – is now in the hands of lay persons, rather
than being directed by clergy or religious.
This change has led to remarkable progress is many ways. Nevertheless, there remains the question of the preparation being given
to those who now find themselves in a governance position for a
work operating on behalf of the Church.
This book examines the types of preparation that would be
necessary for those who assume such tasks. There is no question
of their competence in the field of administration and personnel
management. But, when it comes to issues of “Catholic identity”
and related questions, people might be expecting from them decisions for which they were never
duly prepared.
This joint work, arising out of significant doctoral studies, lays the foundation for formation of
those who are assuming leadership positions in Church-related institutions. Given my own work
in this area, I can hardly wait to be able to put this book in the hands of those who are eagerly
awaiting guidance in arranging for future leaders to acquire the appropriate doctrinal and ecclesial formation to accompany them in their difficult mission." -- Francis G. Morrisey, OMI,
Faculty of Canon Law, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada
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Religion
Alive in the Spirit
-- Fr Ken Barker MGL
Foreword by Archbishop Mark
Coleridge
ISBN 9781922168504
Price: $24.95
Alive in the Spirit invites Catholics to open their lives
more fully to the power of the Holy Spirit. With
spiritual wisdom and compelling stories Fr Ken
Barker describes with clarity and conviction the many ways we can expect the
Holy Spirit to be active in our lives, bringing new freedom, hope and personal
transformation.
As I Have Loved You. A Programme
for Christian Education in Human
Sexuality: Years of Innocence and
Puberty -- Gerard O’Shea
Price: $19.95
Using easy to understand language and graphics, it offers
parents advice and materials for training their own children in a well integrated sexuality according to the mind
of the Church. The inspiration for this book comes from
Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, and the specific teaching of the Pontifical
Council for the Family’s document, “Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.”
A Tour of the Catechism.
The Creed
-- Fr John Flader
Price: $29.95
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a comprehensive, authoritative statement of the Church’s teachings. In A Tour
of the Catechism, Fr Flader unpacks the essentials and
explains them in a way that everyone can understand. The
book is a must for all those who want to know what the
Church teaches, both for their own benefit and for the benefit of others: teachers,
catechists, parents, converts and students of all kinds.
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Australian Rules
From the Goldfields to the ‘G A One-Eyed Look at Aussie Rules
-- Kevin F. Reed
Price: $29.95
Can you pick James Hird’s great grand-father in the photo
on the front cover? Who was the Carlton coach (and Test
cricketer) who grew up on the Goldfields? Who was “Best
on Ground” in the 1914 VFL Grand Final? Where did
he die? Who was the indigenous defender who starred in
the 1950 VFL Grand Final? Who is the champion woman
footballer whose dad was a great VFL full-back? Find the answers to these questions
and much more, in this one-eyed family story of Aussie Rules by Kevin Reed, who
believes that to truly understand a sport it helps to know its history from different
perspectives. Does your family have a similar story?
Wednesday Warriors: Doing it for the
Jumper, the St Pat’s Ballarat Tradition
-- James Gilchrist
Price: $29.95
“The St Pat’s culture of winning was the envy of all schools and clubs
in the Ballarat Area. It has produced VFL Brownlow Medallists,
club captains, premiership players and above all some truly decent
citizens...” - Mick Malthouse.
Wednesday Warriors is the dramatic account of six young
footballers as they strive to etch their names in the tradition of the famous St.
Patrick’s College Ballarat. Enriching their story are the memories of past players
who made their names in the Big League.
Tortured Tales of a Collingwood
Tragic -- James Gilchrist
ISBN 9781921421877
Price: $29.95
Tortured Tales of a Collingwood Tragic is the story of one
boy’s struggle to become a man in spite of the pain
of drawn grand-finals, boundary-line incidents, the
schoolyard taunts of Carlton-loving scumbags and
even the awkwardness of coming to terms with his
own supporters.
“You can feel the passion with every word. The best Collingwood story I’ve put my hands on.”
-- Joffa.
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Fiction
This Tattooed Land -- Derek Parker
In a not-too-distant Australia, an authoritarian Green
government has taken power, and has ruled for a decade
on the premise of dealing with “the emergency”. Turner,
former cop, former convict, sets out for Canberra with a
radical mission: assassinate the Prime Minister. Travelling
through the ruined landscape, drawn onwards by a
growing obsession, he pieces together the story of the
country and the people. And what he finds is startling,
incredible ... and frightening.
A de-industrialised Australia of 2032 ... a bleak future of Mad
Max landscapes and Green Corps cadres hunting down carbon
criminals ... an authoritarian eco-socialist government in power in
Canberra, and a populace reduced to subsistence farming and looting derelict shopping malls ... a
riveting adventure, and a cautionary tale of the trajectory of Green totalitarianism.
– Miranda Devine
Press Gang -- John Kiely
Press Gang is a ripping tale of journalistic exposes, near death
experiences, and with a pace that crackles. Not for the faint-hearted,
but stories which stimulate all the senses. Aussie Journalist David
Reed is a Jack Reacher without the physique or fighting skills,
but he too attracts trouble with every investigation - and from all
directions.
- Ranald Macdonald, Former editor of ‘The Age’.
I have I known John Kiely as a friend and colleague, but seeing the
star of his novel I have even greater respect for his derring do. This
is a man in love with journalism... - Andrew Bolt, ‘Herald
Sun’ Columnist and Blogger.
Home Run -- Dave Lawrence
Price: $19.95
“No doubt about it, your boy will be drafted before
Jess gets her second facelift,” remarked the impeccably
groomed Hank from the stadium. But his eyes were
already glued to the next batter taking up position. Will
the boy, a baseball prodigy, get drafted by his beloved
New York Yankees? And who is the next batter taking
up position? See how the fortunes of two life-long
school friends weave their way through the streets of
Melbourne, a church in Cairo and the ghettos of New
York, ending in a mix of jubilation and unspeakable
tragedy. “Home Run” is ground-breaking teenage fiction.
It is a finely crafted story combining the ambitions of
teenagers with their spiritual search for meaning.
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Hot Tips for Cool Parents: The key to raising awesome
kids -- Catherine Warnock
Self-confessed non-perfect parent Catherine Warnock is
on a mission. From her own parenting mistakes, triumphs,
observations & discussions with other mums & dads,
Catherine has come to the conclusion that parenting is
about much, much more than simply raising kids. First &
foremost it is about raising US, the parents! After all, what
we say, do and think is the food for our children’s minds &
souls. They lap it all up & then follow our lead! So what
are we saying, doing & thinking? And how does it affect
our kids? Hot Tips for Cool Parents explores the big picture
of parenting; offering practical ideas & encouraging us
to really think about what it takes to raise well balanced,
happy, responsible & totally AWESOME kids!
The Judas Tree: Reflections On a Turbulent Young Life
-- James Murray
James Murray, the sometimes controversial former
religious affairs editor of The Australian looks back to the
end of his schooldays at Melbourne’s Scotch College. With
a growing intention to become an Anglican priest, he faces
demons at home and at Melbourne University where his
middle class upbringing faces challenge. His enthusiasm
for music brings him into contact with such luminaries
as Dr A.E.Floyd, Mack Jost, Elsa Haas, Professor John
Bishop; and visiting recitalists, William Warfield, Erna
Berger, Lotte Lehmann, John Charles Thomas, Isaac
Stern, the Menuhins, and future actors, Lewis Fiander,
Norman Kaye, to say nothing of such figures as Justus
Jorgensen and the artists’ colony at Montsalvat.
Giorgio Mangiamele: Cinematographer of the Italian
Migrant Experience
-- Raffaele Lampugnani
ISBN: 9781921421631, Paperback,200 pages
Price: $29.95
Giorgio Mangiamele is without doubt one of the
most interesting and artistically gifted filmmakers in
contemporary Australian cinema, even though his ideas
and talent were often hampered in a technical sense by
material and financial circumstances; he is absolutely
crucial as representative of the post-war Italian migration
experience in Australia.
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The Australian Century
--Asher Judah
ISBN: 9781925138290,
In a no nonsense fashion, Judah abruptly
calls time on the Asian Century mindset by
placing Australia’s long term future front and
centre. By declaring that Australia has begun
the most important century of its existence,
Judah outlines why and how Australia can
change to become a more powerful global
player. He illustrates a future in which Australia
grows stronger amidst mounting international
instability, and shows how the rise of the
global middle class will drive the nation’s socioeconomic evolution. Sparing few
sacred cows, Judah challenges the inevitability of Chinese and Indian economic
domination, identifies the unassailable rise of the “peripheridy” nations and
rewrites the manual on conceptualising Australia’s strengths and weaknesses.
Casting a fresh eye over Australia’s urban and economic development history,
Judah also exposes the reality of its development model – one which more closely
resembles an expanding archipelago.
“Asher Judah has had a longstanding interest in good public policy. While I don’t agree with
all the ideas expressed in this book, it is a worthy contribution to the debate around Australia’s
future and our place in the world.” – Hon. John Brumby, Premier of Victoria (2007-2010)
Risky Business: How Indonesia’s
economic nationalism is hurting
foreign investment – and local
people -- Ari Sharp
ISBN: 9781925138320
Paperback, 326 pages, $29.95
As a young democracy with an emerging middle
class and an abundance of natural resources,
Indonesia is attracting plenty of interest from
foreign investors. While the potential benefits of
doing business in the developing Asian economy
are obvious, the risks can be tougher to spot.
But journalist Ari Sharp has found there are
plenty of things that can go wrong, and often do. With widespread corruption,
a crooked legal system and dysfunctional infrastructure, Indonesia can be a highrisk destination for outsiders keen to invest. Looking back over the past five years,
Risky Business investigates real-life investment nightmares and discovers that
plenty more pain might await others who venture to Indonesia unprepared.
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