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The Cow Tripped Over the Moon and Other Nursery Rhyme Emergencies
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
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Please Explain: The Rise; Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson
In 1996; Pauline Hanson gave a speech that changed Australia. Targeting Asian and Indigenous people and foreign aid; Hanson unleashed a Pandoraâs box of division on the country. When she famously lost her federal seat in 1998; her political downfall seemed assured â but she stayed firmly in the spotlight; whether she was being locked up for electoral fraud or jiving on Dancing with ...
Midnight Oil - The Power and the Passion
Midnight Oil are one of the most Australian rock bands this country has produced. Born from the Australian pub rock scene that gave us AC/DC, Cold Chisel and INXS, the Oils were able to break out of that scene without compromising themselves in any way. Indeed, their breakthrough overseas record was the most Australian album they made. But it wasnt just the subject matter that made them fie...
The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
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Made in the USA - The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
An argument that Americas economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Theres no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.-Bill Gates In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a...
Dynasty - The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. Augustus, their new master called himself: The Divinely Favoured One. The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded b...
The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
The most brilliant British historian of his generation The Times What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world. Most history is hierarchical: its about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if thats simply because ...
The French Exception - Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk
39-year old Emmanuel Macron is the youngest-ever inhabitant of the Elysee Palace. A surprise candidate from the start, Macron was considered a rank outsider until a series of fortuitous events including his survival of a massive last-minute data hack cleared his path to victory and condemned Marine Le Pen to a resounding defeat in May 2017, in Frances most emotional election since 1948. P...
The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
The New York Times bestseller Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it Eric Schmidt What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world. Most history is hierarchical: its about popes, presidents, and prime...
The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva
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Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
An oral history from the acclaimed writer of Isle of Noises Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britains musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang. Through the ...
The Century Trilogy Trade Paperback Boxed Set - Fall of Giants; Winter of the World; Edge of Eternity
The #1 New York Times bestselling historical epic, the Century Trilogy, now in one deluxe boxed set. Ken Follett follows the fortunes of five international familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshas they make their way through the 20th century. The boxed set includes all three volumes: Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, and Edge of Eternity. [Follett] is a commanding storyte...
The Rise of Nine - Lorien Legacies Book 3
The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore. Number Four is a hero for this generation Michael Bay, director of Transformers ***Until I met John Smith, Number Four, Id been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find t...
Beyond the Rock - The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock
In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that has endured for half a century. Beyond the Rock looks at not just the myth of Picnic and how it...
The Death and Life of Australian Soccer
In The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, Joe Gorman chronicles the rise and fall of Australias first national football competition. Drawing on archival research and numerous interviews, he reveals the sports vibrant multicultural history, while also taking an unflinching look at the issues that plague the game. Timely and fascinating, The Death and Life of Australian Soccer is no ordinary ...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedys international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. Kennedys masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the latter which, through competition,...
The Wrath and the Dawn - The Wrath and the Dawn Book 1
A #1 New York Times bestseller and a sumptuous, epic tale inspired by A Thousand and One Nights.A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story US WeeklyEvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a terrible surprise when si...
Walls Come Tumbling Down - The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britains musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Da...
The Woman in the Wood - A missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth. From...
Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until the fateful day in the wood . . . One night in 1960, the twins awake to find their father pulling their screaming mother from the house. She is to be committed to an asylum. It is, so their father insists, for her own good. Its not long before they, too, are removed from their London home and sent to Nighting...
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
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