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Terrorism Explained by Clive Williams
2 February, 2007 Clive Williams is a former military intelligence officer with thirty years experience before he took up his current appointment as Director of Terrorism Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. 
2 February, 2007 The relationship between Australia and Turkey is perhaps one of the more intriguing of the modern world.
From Gallipoli to Gaza by Jill Hamilton
2 February, 2007 The heroism and horror of war have been a theme of poetry from Homer to the present day. 
2 February, 2007 Gallipoli is one of the defining moments of the Australian historical consciousness. In recent years, there has been a high level of interest generated in the Gallipoli landings. 
2 February, 2007 Professor Gavan McCormack writes regularly for publications such as the New Left Review, Eureka Street, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Future Armies, Future Challenges by Michael Evans, Russell Parkin and Alan Ryan
2 February, 2007 There is an art to editing conference proceedings, which too often when published are less than the sum of their parts. 
2 February, 2007 Priest, lawyer and social justice advocate Frank Brennan puts forward a comprehensive, well-researched argument for changes in Australia's policy towards asylum seekers.
Flatterland by Ian Stewart
2 February, 2007 I cannot start this review without mentioning the books predecessor Flatland written by Edwin A Abbott, in 1884, to introduce folk to the new mathematical concepts then being expounded regarding a universe of more than three dimensions. 
2 February, 2007 Sybil's Cave is the story of Billie, a 60-year-old artist living on an island in the Hawkesbury River with an old artist friend and a young man who cooks in return for lodging. 
2 February, 2007 Modern tourism has made much of the globe accessible to the humble tourist, yet there are some journeys that are still only available to the truly intrepid. 
2 February, 2007 This book is one that any student of strategy or military history will have trouble putting down once taken up. 
2 February, 2007 Some of the characters and settings in Sweet Time will be recognisable to readers familiar with Graham Reilly's first novel Saigon Tea. 
2 February, 2007 Building on the success of The Darkness and A New Kind of Dreaming, Fireshadow takes the reader on a voyage of loss and redemption, where the characters are indelibly connected to the landscape and transformed by their experiences out in the West Australian bush. 
2 February, 2007 Mr Botherit is at it again - trying to encourage the 'Joy of the Envelope' through a Year 10 pen pal project between Ashbury and Brookfield schools. 
2 February, 2007 Calvin lives a life of detached hedonism: go out; take a pill; meet a boy; dance; recover; repeat.
The Face of Naval Battle by John Reeve and David Stevens
2 February, 2007 The bulk of the chapter essays contained in this book originated as presentations to the RAN’s 2001 King-Hall Naval History Conference. 
2 February, 2007 Eliot Cohen, Professor of Strategic Studies at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, has produced a superbly researched and comprehensively detailed study of leadership: its fundamentals, application, constraints and the tensions the latter can generate when it is most intensely stressed - wartime. 
2 February, 2007 Judith Wright and philosopher Jack McKinney first met in the 1940s and part of the pleasure of this literary gem is the recreation of a lively postwar Brisbane. 
2 February, 2007 Wood gradually builds an atmosphere of dread in this tale of two sisters and their doomed relationships. 
2 February, 2007 Anne Summers doesn't introduce readers gently to her argument in The End of Equality.
Deltora Quest 3 - Dragon's Nest By Emily Rodda
2 February, 2007 In Dragon's Nest, Emily Rodda offers readers the next exciting instalment in the 'Deltora Quest' series. 
2 February, 2007 Death Sentence explains how the language of managerialism and marketing has invaded public life, giving examples from government, universities, schools and journalism. |
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