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A Single Tree : Voices from the Bush by Don Watson
$45.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
"A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson's award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent. Each of these varied contributors u settlers, explorers, anthropologists, naturalists, stockmen, surveyor ...Show more
American Journeys by Don Watson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Travel
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles. Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management by Don Watson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Business and Economics
Mission statements and vision statements What is a mission statement? A company without a mission statement is like an evangelist without the cross or a shaman without her spirit animal. The same goes for any other business, including government departments, schools and kindergartens, hospitals, fune ...Show more
Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management by Don Watson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Business and Economics
Mission statements are everywhere: you have to have one, whether you're a Fortune 500 company, a hedge fund, a primary school, a church or a hockey club. Without a mission statement, who would know what your values are, or what your culture is? And how then, going forward, will you get buy-in on your st ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
On Indignation by Don Watson
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
With characteristic wit , Don Watson explores indignation through generations of his family and their Old Testament rages. He asks why wounded pride or a sense of injustice unleashes the furies and whether there is ever virtue in it. Dazzling in its humour and eloquence, Watson turns to George W. Bush - ...Show more
On the US election: Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson
$27.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other. This is a deeply historically informed, characteristically mordant account of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a divided country. Watson considers how things ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
If he had never become Prime Minister Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's worki ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating with new content.Introduced by Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of WA and senior minister in the Keating government. "Others have fair claim on the economic transformation of Australia, but Paul Keating's so-called 'big picture' vision, his politi ...Show more
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
The Bush by Don Watson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi ...Show more