** Shortlisted, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize **** Longlisted, 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award **** Longlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award **** Longlisted, 2023 Walkley Book Awards **Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics....

From its vibrant and lively cities to snow-capped volcanoes and white-sand beaches, Colombia offers enormous variety. Footprint’s 5th edition Colombia Handbook will guide you from salsa clubs & gold museums to the Amazon jungle and mountain peaks.• Great coverage of the top activities and sights in the region, including numerous adventure sports, jungle trekking and hot springs• Loaded with information and suggestions on how to get off the beaten track, from stays in authen...

Immense, intense and dramatic, Argentina is a land of contrasts. From sophisticated Buenos Aires, home to grand baroque buildings and the mysteries of the tango, to the lush, jungled Iguazu Falls, down to the incredible frozen landscapes of Patagonia, Footprint’s Argentina Handbook will ensure you discover the best of this incredible and varied country.• Great coverage of sights and activities, from the plazas and vineyards of Mendoza to wild and icy Ushuaia• Packed with in...

**Instant New York Times BestsellerThe riveting new book on the momentous year, campaign, and election that shaped American history**It’s January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris Wallace offers readers a front-row seat to history. From the challenge of primary battles in a nation that had never elected a Catholic president, to the intense machinations of the national conventions—w...

Hollywood is many things to many people, as diverse as those who've passed through its studio gates. Every Hollywood generation reveals a small part of the ever evolving whole. It goes from all the way back to one-reelers and continues in pursuit of the ever changing present. The future is utterly unpredictable. This is and always has been true of Hollywood.The author was a working actor in Hollywood for sixteen years from the late 1970s to the early 90s. He met lots of unforgettab...

Shortlisted for the 2019 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Literature AwardsChris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia's current position in an rapidly changing world. The poet asks for fresh meanings from Gallipoli and Scotland, from physics and from 'Art's porous auditorium', where poetry can still be heard. 'The words are...

Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia's current position in an rapidly changing world. The poet asks for fresh meanings from Gallipoli and Scotland, from physics and from 'Art's porous auditorium', where poetry can still be heard. 'The words are only the words,' he writes, 'which is more or less everything.'Critic Eric Ormsby dubbed Wallace-Crabbe a 'genial...

Ranging across various forms and tones, this poetry compilation expounds upon the Australian landscape, and its natural objects and inhabitants. Combining humor and gravity, it ponders the destruction of our planet and the detrimental effects of progress.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown 1945 comes a sweeping account of America's WWII forces in their greatest and deadliest hour.After the success of D-Day and then the sweep across France, the allies are taking a pause in the days before Christmas, 1944, planning for their final drive into Germany. What they don't know is that Hitler has secretly mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to launch a major sneak offensive on his...

The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the winning – including the next one. Labor's surprise loss in 2019, like the Liberal and National parties' defeat in the so-called 'unloseable' 1993 election, showed how careful attention to basic political craft can yield big dividends – and how inattention to it can turn apparently certain favourites into losers. With the vast challenges of climate change and social ...

'What we now want from a biography, or autobiography, is the very thing that Virginia Woolf said that we have no right to want: art. Not only art, obviously, but art nevertheless. And we love the illumination of dark corners of the soul, having quite a few of our own, if we’re honest with ourselves.' – Robert DessaixThe Seymour Biography Lecture was presented annually at the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia from 2005 to 2023, by eminent ...

Thirty timely projects will have crafters assembling clocks in no time at all!From whimsical to sophisticated, there's a clock project for every decor: lodge/rustic; English cottage; shabby chic; sporty; classic; kids; contemporary; retro; masculine; folk art; funky; artsy; French country; country; and ethnic. Sixteen well known designers contributed projects, including Cheryl Ball, Barbara McGuire, Vivian Perrits, Lisa Sheppard, and Carolyn Stearns.Crafters of all skill le...