Karen Middleton

Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for many years. In his early years of political and community engagement, he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension. Anthony learned his political craft among the tough men and women of NSW Labor, inheriting his mother's devotion to social justice, the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the party his family had served for three generations. Albanese: Telling It Straight reveals what shaped the bloke they call 'Albo', his climb through politics by playing hard, fast and sometimes loose and how he discovered his own past as he and his colleagues wrestled with Labor's future--back cover.

Albanese

A decade on from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Australians are embroiled in one of the nation's longest military conflict-the war in Afghanistan. An Unwinnable War charts the motives, ambitions and negotiations that carried Australia into Afghanistan: from the then Prime Minister John Howard's presence in Washington DC on September 11, 2001 to the 'transition' plan to hand security to Afghan forces - all played out in the wake of increasing casualties. Based on interviews with key political and military figures in Australia and abroad, An Unwinnable War lays bare the tensions between political and military decision-making, the nature and potency of the US alliance and the influence of individual personalities in charting Australia's course in what was once dubbed the 'good war'.

Australia in Afghanistan

An Unwinnable War

William Beinart

Simon Pooley

"Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century."--publisher website.

Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination

This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar.

Ancestors, Power, and History in Madagascar

A tale of imagination for younger readers with rhyme and pictures to help develop an interest in books

Karen Middleton

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