…and other sorry excuses for the State of the Nation!

Stupid White Men tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals – among other things – how ‘President’ Bush stole an election aided only by his brother, cousin, his dad’s cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; and how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Not to mention providing fascinating details on just how stupid Bush is, a convincing case for male obsolescence and a fabulous new use for Whites Only signs!

A hilarious must-read for anyone who wants to know what the con is and how ‘they’ get away with it, Stupid White Men is only available uncesnsored because public pressure forced the original publishers to print a book they felt was too hot to handle. Now it’s time to find out why. It’s so damn funny it’ll make you cry.

Title: Stupid White Men

Author: Michael Moore

Condition: Used and read only once. Book is protected by a clear cover.

ISBN: 0141011904

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year of publication: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: This book has only been read once.

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A story of hope

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Gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the world. Through this work thousands of women have been able to resume a normal existence after living as outcasts.

The Hamlins dedicated their lives to women suffering the catastrophic effects of obstructed labour – a problem easily dealt with in the developed world by assisted delivery or caesarean section, but disatrous without medical intervention. The awful injuries that usch labour produces are called fistulae, and until the Hamlins began their work in Ethiopia, fistula sufferers were neglected and forgotten – a vast group of women facing a lifetime of incapacity and degradation. Read more here

Title: The Hospital by the River:  A story of hope

Author: Dr. Catherine Hamlin

Condition: Used and read only once. As NEW

ISBN: 073291082

Publisher: Macmillan Australia

Year of publication: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

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A novel by Dana Vachon

Tony Quinn is a recent Georgetown grad who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J.S. Spenser, and the perfect girl, Frances Sloan, the daughter of one of New York’s oldest moneyed families. As he travels from the most exclusive ballrooms of the Racquet and Tennis Club to the stuffiest boardrooms of J.S. Spenser, from the golf links of Piping Rock to the bedrooms of Park Avenue, and from the debauched yacht of a Mexican billionaire to the Ritalin-strewn prep school dorm room of his younger brother, he finds that neither the job nor the girl are what they once seemed.

Set against the backdrop of money, lust power, corruption, cynicism, energy, and excitement that is Wall Street, Dana Vachon’s debut is suffused with an authenticity that only an author who lives in the world it portrays could provide. With Mergers & Acquisitions, he delivers a stylish and hilarious tale of the lives and loves of well-to-do young Manhattanites in their first year on Wall Street.

Title: Mergers & Acquisitions

Author: Dana Vachon

Condition: Used and read only once. Perfect condition

ISBN: 9781594489341

Publisher: Penguin Group

Year of publication: 2007

Binding: Hard cover

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A comprehensive series of reference books for use at home or in school, providing a fascinating and informative guide to all aspects of history.

From the familia tales of Greece and Rome and the opulence of the major Chinese dynasties, to the great empires of Egypt and Mesopotamia, Great Civilisations encompassses the rise and fall, victories and defeats, leaders and subjects, of many diverse and magnificent cultures.

This comprehensive and colourful guide traces the development of the world’s greatest civilisations – the powerful, the peaceful, the opulent, and the formidable. Whether they were destined to last just a few years, or dominate the world for centuries, this guide provides a fascinating insight into the foundations, politics, peoples, and customs of the powers of the ancient world.

Title: Great Civilisations

General editor: Brenda Ralph Lewis

Condition: Used and front cover has a crease (see photo)

ISBN: 0752553720

Publisher: Parragon

Year of publication: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: A good read

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dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate

Fences and Windows is an eyewitness account of a unique chapter in our history and an investigation of globalization and its consequences; a survival guide for life in the world economy.

Title: Fences and Windows

Author: Naomi Klein

Condition: Used and read only once. Book is beautiful and as new. Protected with clear colour.

ISBN: 0007150474

Publisher: Flamingo

Year of publication: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: This book has only been read once. It is in excellent condition.

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No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

Shortlisted for the Guardin First Book Award 2000

For the excerpt of the book, please click here

Title: No Logo

Author: Naomi Klein

Condition: Used and read only once. Book is beautiful and as new

ISBN: 0006530400

Publisher: Flamingo

Year of publication: 2001

Binding: Soft cover

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City Guide 2nd edition

In the space of a decade, Shanghai has re-emerged as one of the world’s great cities. Highrollers, trend-setters and travellers alike are drawn to this dynamic and cosmopolitan metropolis. Shop, promenade and explore by day, and hit chic bars and world-class restaurants at night – you’ll be spoilt for choice. This smart, streetwise and stylish guide will ensure you get the most out of ‘new’ Shanghai.

• EAT WITH CONFIDENCE in the most authentic restaurants with our Chinese menu decoder
• SHOP LIKE MADE at markets and malls, boutiques and bazaas – we’re sure to have something in your size
• WALK THROUGH TIME with our walking tours featuring the Bund, the French Concession and the Old Town
• GET OUT OF TOWN with excursions to Zhouzhuang, Suzhou and Hangzhou
• NEVER GET LOST using our easy-to-use, detailed colour maps

Title: Shanghai City Guide

Author: Bradley Mayhew

Condition: Hardly Used

ISBN: 1740593081

Publisher: Lonely Planet

Year of publication: 2004 (2nd Edition)

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: Hardly used. It is in excellent condition.

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A novel of 1930s India

In Chalaili, an Indian hill station stranded above the clouds, where the trees and flowers are of ravishing hues and the annual monsoon hits with monumental force, a small enclave of British expatriates cling to the glory of a fast-fading empire.

Into this faltering world come two starkly different but memorable women: the larger-than-life Mrs NBanerjee, with her armoury of gold bangles and saris in thrilling colours, and Lydia Rushmore, a timid Surrey school teacher hurriedly married off to the town’s disgraced meteorologist. Mrs Banerjee sets out to transform the run-down Chalaili theatre into Coronation Talkies, a thoroughly modern cinema showing Hollywood’s latest love stories. Lydia Rushmore discovers the soothing effects of gin as she tries to fit into hill station society and please her complicated new husband.

As World War II looms in Europe and British colonial power recedes, Chalaili becomes teh setting ofr trickery, seduction and the unveiling of shocking secrets.

Title: Coronation Talkies

Author: Susan Kurosawa

Condition: Used and read only once. Book is beautiful and as new

ISBN: 067004279

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year of publication: 2004

Binding: Soft cover

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‘I’ve got nothing against gay men – some of my best friends are homosexuals. I just didn’t expect my husband to be one too.’

Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham’s head when her husband Hugo uttered the words, ‘I’ve got something to tell you …’, a comping out speech never figured.

Suddenly alone in their adopted home of Sydney, with no friends save for her six-year-old son Tom and a pair of jewelled Jimmy Choo mules, Antonia soon finds that an attractive single woman is not nearly so welcome on the champagne social scene as the wife of a glamorous English aristocrat. It is only the arrival of Hugo’s outrageous laveder-haired Uncle Percy that lifts her out of her depression – and propels her into a gym to combat the effects of some serious comfort eating. There she meets the mysterious James, who leads her into a shadowy world of criminals, corruption and high-stakes property deals. But what starts out as a lark leads her into a situation hwere keeping a secret becomes a matter of life, death – and love.

Title: Mad about the boy

Author: Maggie Alderson

Condition: Used and read only once

ISBN: 0143000020

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year of publication: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: This book has only been read once. It is in excellent condition.

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From international to personal finance

Title: Dictionary of Finance and Banking

Condition: Almost brand new

ISBN: 0192800671

Edition: Second

Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press

Year of publication: 1993, 1997

Binding: Soft cover

Comments: This book is in excellent condition. There is a plastic covering over it that has maintained its wonderful condition.

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