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Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
Expanding Universe. the Hubble Space Telescope by Charles F. Bolden; Jr.; Owen Edwards; John Mace Grunsfeld; Zoltan Levay
$75.00 AUD
Category: Photography
With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand n ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
John Curtin's War Volume II - Triumph and Decline by John Edwards
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
The first volume of John Curtin?s War was recognized as 'a landmark in Australian political biography? (The Australian) and 'remarkable? (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia?s place in the world- 'The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.? Th ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
$13.00 AUD
Category: Political
What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th ...Show more
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