Another time, another place, another war, combining outstanding writing about travel, relations with parents and journey of historical discovery.

Jewels and Ashes

History

Zable, Arnold

Europe

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Ronald Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on February 3, 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during his daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison. Following Ryan's death, date governments moved to abolish the death penalty, and he became the last man to be hanged in Australia. Today, more than 30 years later, the Ryan case still prompts spirited debate about the guilty finding against the condemned man, the merits of capital punishment in general, and the politics behind the execution. Mike Richards' original, comprehensive research and persuasive insights have produced a definitive account of the life and death of the man whose execution stopped a nation.

The Hanged Man: The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan

Biographies & Memoirs

Richards, Mike

True Crime

Ninety per cent of those diagnosed with schizophrenia are treated, often involuntarily, with drugs that manage but do not cure the condition. This book discusses the many human rights problems that arise from this treatment. It also asks whether it is possible to understand schizophrenia differently, and what follows if we do.

Punishing the Patient: How Psychiatrists Misunderstand and Mistreat Schizophrenia

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gosden PhD, Richard

Mental Health

This revised and updated edition contains provocative and challenging essays from Australian and New Zealand specialists that address ethical, social, and ecological problems arising from biotechnology and genetic engineering. This collection challenges society's supposed acceptance of genetic engineering. Though promising much, emerging technology also threatens to disrupt evolution and usher in new forms of social control. This book is essential reading for those uncomfortable with developments in this area.

Altered Genes II: The Future?

Australia & Oceania

In this personal story and compelling call for the legalization of cannabis for medical use, the author portrays graphically the relief her terminally ill husband suffering from prostate cancer gained from using cannabis, the reactions they encountered, and their fear of arrest as they grew plants and spoke publicly of the issue. This is a remarkable account of how this octogenarian couple transformed Arthur's final months. A lessening of pain and nausea, regained appetite, a general improvement in well-being, and a greater degree of independence were achieved through Reilly's use of this extensively used and widely accepted—but illegal—substance.

Cannabis and Cancer: Arthur's Story

Reilly, Pauline

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This provocative book reveals the previously hidden details of one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history, providing a firsthand account of the deaths of five young television reporters killed by the Indonesian military in the East Timor border town of Balibo in 1975. The reporters died as they filmed the advance of Indonesian troops into the town. Cover Up tells their personal stories and of their families' heartbreaking struggle for the truth. It argues that the Australian government was always aware of the circumstances of the killings and that its cover-up was a key factor in Indonesia's decision to invade and occupy East Timor. Part memoir, part history, this searing book is as much an investigation of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor as it is a case study of the Balibo killings.

Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five

Jolliffe, Jill

This is a superbly written, designed, and illustrated history of Victoria's museums of natural history, ethnography, applied science, technology, and social history from 1854 to the present. This mainly chronological narrative is interspersed with short studies by 46 authors on the objects, specimens, stories, and people that are the essence of Museum Victoria. It will appeal to the general reader with an interest in museums and history as well as those interested in the cultural, social, and technological growth of the state of Victoria in Australia.

A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000

Rasmussen, Carolyn

"This extended essay argues that the attacks on the World Trade Center have exposed the Western world not just to terror, but also to an underlying cultural emptiness that is crippling its ability to respond adequately. Ranging from the ancient Greek gods to recent American films, and visiting Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness on the way, Carroll argues that the West is in disarray. What is now faced is not just the threat of further attacks, he contends, but a world where values have been leached away by a secular culture based on excess."

Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11

Literature & Fiction

Carroll, John

History & Criticism

"This analysis of Western Sydney's myriad faces explores its roles as suburban wonderland, ethnic trouble spot, home of gated communities. Western Sydney has become notorious for its supposedly uncharitable attitudes toward migrants and asylum-seekers, yet it’s still the number-one destination for new arrivals. Evidence about the region’s aspirations and social attitudes, and its place in the political nation, is surveyed. The area's recent reputation for racism and intolerance is explored as well."

Western Horizon: Sydney's Heartland and the Future of Australian Politics (Scribe Short Books)

Burchell, David

For almost sixty years - from the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 to the invasion of Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction and the nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula - nuclear issues have driven international relations. And all Australian governments since 1945 have shaped their nuclear policies according to what they believed or knew Washington wanted.In reality, this book argues, Australia's reputation was not always well deserved. Based on previously classified files and interviews with Australian diplomats and politicians, Fact or Fission? reveals for the first time that Australia's credentials in non-proliferation during and since the 1970s were little more than a ploy to disempower anti-nuclear groups in the community. It also provides convincing evidence that, under commercial pressure, governments substantially compromised safeguards controlling the export of Australian uranium - with the result that uranium has probably found its way, in one form or another, into clandestine nuclear weapons.Now the Howard government has gone even further down the nuclear path. It has uncritically embraced American nuclear war-fighting policies that undermine the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and encourage the spread of such weapons. Such outcomes, this book argues, would profoundly endanger Australia's own security. Fact or Fission? is a vital record of government duplicity and deception.

Fact or Fission?: The Truth About Australia's Nuclear Ambitions

Broinowski, Richard

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