Black Inc : 83 books
Toyo
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Toyo learned to ask nothing, to wait and count the days. But they passed and passed and still the doorway remained empty of his deep voice, calling out her name.
Blending the intimacy of memoir with an artist's vision, Toyo is the story of a remarkable woman, a vivid picture of Japan before...
Girt
The Unauthorised History of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...
In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.
Mark Twain...
Reframe: How to solve the worlds trickiest problems
How to Solve the World's Trickiest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
An original and vital contribution to understanding politics. Matt Ridley, author of The Rational OptimistHow to solve the worlds trickiest problems terrorism, climate change, financial insanity and more.In the tradition of Freakonomics and The Tipping Point, Reframe brings a fresh perspective to our...
Dream City
Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With a new afterword covering the two decades since its first publication, two of Washington, D.C.’s most respected journalists expose one of America’s most tragic ironies: how the nation’s capital, often a gleaming symbol of peace and hope, is the setting for vicious contradictions and devastating...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation.The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning, Christianity and...
Quarterly Essay 43 Bad News
Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch’s lead political voice here, the Australian newspaper, and how it shapes debate. Since 2002, under...
Quarterly Essay 40 Trivial Pursuit
Leadership and the End of the Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents? The Hawke, Keating and Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era...
Quarterly Essay 34 Stop at Nothing
The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
What does Malcolm Turnbull stand for? In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb tells the story of the man who would be prime minister.
Based on extensive interviews with Turnbull as well as those who have worked with him, this is an essay full of revelations. Crabb delves into young Malcolm's university...
Quarterly Essay 33 Quarry Vision
Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This is an essay about “quarry vision”, the mindset that sees Australia’s greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources – coal especially. How has this distorted our national politics and our response to climate change? What happens now that our coal-fired resources boom has gone bust?...
Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question
Who Owns The Past?
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called...
Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds,...
Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister?In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at university, Abbott...
Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist
John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In the third Quarterly Essay, Guy Rundle comes to grips with John Howard, the prime minister who, on the eve of an election, seems to have turned round his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terror. This is a brilliant account of John Howard's dominant...
Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet
Labor's Post-Left Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?
With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s...