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Leading scientists controversially question Climate Change facts and theory in an open, robust, and controversial comment on Climate Change science.

The Magna Carta and its influence on democracy revealed.

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Nazi Dreamtime is the story of the extreme-righted ultra-nationalism in Australia before and during the World War II. It focuses on those native-born Australians who were attracted to the ideology of Nazism.

After the 1838 Lower Canada rebellion, 58 French Canadians were convicted of treason and transported to life at hard labour in New South Wales. From the day they left Quebec, until the last man returned home, their activities were observed in journals, diaries and newspapers.

The football field was an arena of protest and empowerment for the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. The authors follow the Australian and New Zealand national players in the male-dominated world of football, uncovering stories of vulnerability and strength, sexual harassment and sexual awakening.

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With a new vision of bio-ecology that linked humans to their past and their evolutionary niche, the 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe constructing morphologies of the biological world.

Costas Taktsis, arguably the most important post-war Greek writer, called himself a 'Sacred Monster', and his life-long Australian friend Carl Plate - an important painter, Gallerist and influencer of modern art in Sydney - the Colossus of Woronora.

David Campbell was one of Australia's finest lyric poets. A writer, war hero and grazier, he published 11 books of poems and short stories, and was a regular contributor to The Bulletin under Douglas Stewart's literary editorship.

Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American historian, using archival records from across the globe, exposes the notion of a British betrayal as nothing more than a myth.

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Experts in company law, trusts and financial crime explore the nature of companies and trusts, how they have been used legitimately and exploited illegally. Complex corporate structures, including the ownership structure of the Alibaba Group, are examined. The Panama Papers' revelations are also discussed.

An expert practitioner carefully explains dementia and harshly criticizes current practices and official policies.

Experts in financial crime, regulation and markets provide an international analysis of the market for trusts and explain how digital disruption is refashioning the legal services market. They also explore how whistleblowing, as in the example of the Panama Papers, has undermined the offshore secrecy market.

Explores Islam and its Qur'an, Law, and history, to shed light on tragic modern events.

A critique of rationalism, this book explains both its powerful contributions to mathematics and the physical sciences and its disastrous failures in cosmology and the moral sciences. In these supposed sciences, rationalism has all but destroyed the social conscience of the West by creating the disastrous political philosophy of neoliberalism.

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