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Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Business and Economics | 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
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
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
$49.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
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
Mary I: England's Catholic Queen by John Edwards
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Yale English Monarchs Series
The life story of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the burning of Protestants, her short marriage to Philip of S ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
$12.99 AUD
Category: Business and Economics
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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