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The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Biography Ser.
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose to a ...Show more
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a hous ...Show more
Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist by Dennis Altman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Biography Ser.
Dennis Altman's long obsession with the United States began when he went there as a graduate student during Lyndon Johnson's Presidency. His early writing stemmed from the counter-culture that developed in the States in the mid-1960s. Altman was involved in early Gay Liberation, and his 1971 study Homos ...Show more
Winning for Women: A Personal Story by Iola Mathews
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Biography Ser.
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively? Iola Mathews was one of the founders of the Women's Electoral Lobby, a journalist at The Age, and later a leading ACTU advocate for women workers durin ...Show more