Australian & Oceanian

`How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed...

'It takes courage to be an empathetic leader. And I think if anything the world needs empathetic leadership now, perhaps more than ever.' Jacinda Ardern Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on a wave of popular enthusiasm dubbed 'Jacindamania'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730390275Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams)...

The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public...

Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Sāmoa tells the story of the development of Sāmoa’s unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Sāmoa, from first settlement through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783081219Author Alan J. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742370507Author Jackie DickensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948260435Author Graham L PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLCPublisher Strategic Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798737203085Author David LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 140g

Does Australia need to choose between the United States and China? In Independent Ally, Shannon Tow explores how Australia has repeatedly developed a strong relationship with a rising power while simultaneously preserving its alliance with a dominant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645716320Author Harry RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Social TechnologiesPublisher Social TechnologiesWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863959100Author James BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RedbackPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 248g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863959070Author David MarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Quarterly EssayPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798625993814Author Ioannis VasileiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 91g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613398708Author Paul J. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint GOKO PublishingPublisher GOKO Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925984576Author Lyndon MegarrityFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Australian Scholarly PublishingPublisher Australian Scholarly Publishing

Why do seemingly intelligent men and woman leave their families to spend more than half the year travelling to Canberra, and night after night out at electorate and campaign events? Surely there are easier ways to earn a living? This is one politician's...

This is a book about conflict: conflict between a country with limits to its international influence - Australia - and a new international actor with enormous presence on the world stage - the European Union. Australians often perceive the EU as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648472230Author Barbara MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Barbara Miller BooksPublisher Barbara Miller BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This book examines Australian foreign policy in multiple dimensions: diplomatic, military, economic, legal and scientific. It shows how the instruments of statecraft have defended domestic concentrations of wealth and power across the 230-year span of...

One increasingly popular device for achieving a balance between authority and accountability in government is the institution of the ombudsman. The first non-Scandinavian ombudsman appeared in New Zealand in 1962, and since then the office has spread to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143789284Author Gabrielle ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage (Australia)Publisher Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 430g

As the 21st century proceeds apace, Australia faces new and old challenges, both domestically and internationally. These include managing complex governance issues, preventing democratic fracture, balancing an ever- shifting geopolitical strategic order,...

'This book debunks in spectacular fashion some of the most treasured, over-inflated claims of the benefits of native title.' Professor Mick Dodson, ANU Centre for Indigenous Studies 'David Ritter's fascinating account of the evolution of the native...

The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public...

Oceania comprises the islands located in the Pacific Ocean that are a part of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The region located between Asia, Australia, and both Americas is worth special attention not only for cultural but also political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464095Author Martin ParkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Sea level rises pose a greater long term threat to Australia's coastline and major capital cities than a military attack by a foreign power. Citizens are more likely to experience a pandemic virus than a nuclear threat. Food shortages have already...

Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate...

How do Australian governments budget? How well do they spend and manage our money? Governments seem to be locked in a constant struggle with the problems of budgeting. Cabinet never has enough resources to go around, and while some agencies 'guard'...

An innovative and exciting approach to the study of Australian politics that is guaranteed to spark students' interest.' Professor Carol Johnson, University of Adelaide Powerscape is an engaging study of power relationships in the Australian political...

'a provocative must-read text for an engaged public, offering a distinctive Australian take on corporate globalism, and grounding this in a robust theory of social change that emphasises material power and interests, along with symbolic power and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464187Author Don RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long...

Australia faces major challenges to its forms of governance. Changing expectations from its citizens, global pressures on the economy and technological innovation are impacting on government operations. Yet most of its institutions were designed a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783081226Author Ian KilleyFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

John Howard said, The times will suit me,' and they did. For over a decade John Howard took advantage of international crises and local anxieties to not only stay in government, but to radically reshape Australian public life.The Times Will Suit Them...