(BOOK REVIEW Catholic revisals)*
BEARING FALSE WITNESS: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
by Rodney Stark
Templeton Press, PA Hardcover: 272 pages Price: AUD$55.90
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(BOOK REVIEW An empire’s collapse)*
THE OTTOMAN ENDGAME: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923
by Sean McMeekin
Allen Lane, 2015 Hardcover: 576 pages ISBN: 9781594205323 Pr…
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(BOOK REVIEW Roman refresher)*
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
Profile Books, 2016 Paperback: 608 pages Price: AUD$24.99
Reviewed by Bill James
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(BOOK REVIEW The West’s left turn into today)*
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
by Jon Savage
Faber & Faber, London Hardcover: 620 pages Price: AUD$49.99
Reviewed by Jeffry Babb
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(BOOK REVIEW An empire built on suffering)*
SECONDHAND TIME: The last of the Soviets, An Oral History
by Svetlana Alexievich Translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich
Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016 Paperback: 5…
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(BOOK REVIEW Putting postmodernism in its grave)*
COUNTERSTRIKE
by Hal Colebatch
Acashic Intellectual Capital, 2011 Subiaco East Paperback: 245 pages Price: AUD$30
Reviewed by Jeffry Babb
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(BOOK REVIEW A primer on Western civilisation)*
SOUL OF THE WEST: Christianity and the Great Tradition by David Daintree (Connor Court, Ballarat, 2015) Paperback: 90 pages Price: AUD$22.95 Reviewed by Peter Madison Can …
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(BOOK REVIEW Retrieving meaning)*
IN PRAISE OF PREJUDICE: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
by Theodore Dalrymple
(Encounter Books, Jackson, Tennessee) Hardcover: 129 pages ISBN: 9781594032028…
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(BOOK REVIEW Secularism mars insights)*
NOTES ON THE DEATH OF CULTURE: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa (Faber and Faber, London, 2015) Hardcover: 227 pages ISBN: 9780571300549 Price: AUD$35.00 Revi…
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(BOOK REVIEW A novel for the remnant)*
ELIJAH IN JERUSALEM: A Novel by Michael O’Brien (Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2015) Hardback: 288 pages ISBN: 9781586179465 Price: AUD$45.95 Reviewed by Peter Kelleher &n…
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(BOOK REVIEW A contribution to Pope Francis’ call for a conversation on conservation)*
HEAVEN AND HELL: The Pope Condemns the Poor to Eternal Poverty
by Ian Plimer
(Connor Court, Ballarat, 2015) Paperback: 348 pages ISBN: 9781925138801 Price: AUD$29.95
Reviewed by Willi…
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(BOOK REVIEW Progress in the dock)*
THE ROMANTIC ATTACK ON MODERN SCIENCE IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA: And Other Essays
by Roger Sworder
Angelico Press (Sophia Perennis). Paperback: 172 pages ISBN: 978-1621381471 Price: AUD$28.99…
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(BOOK REVIEW Hope for the Land of the Southern Cross)*
FROM TRADITION AND AWAY FROM TRADITION: Poems, 2001–2014 by Andrew Huntley (Bendigo, Extra Castra Publications) Hardcover: 60 pages ISBN: 9780646926049 Price: AUD$29.95 R…
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(BOOK REVIEW Against the American Jesus)*
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(BOOK REVIEW The man who would not be prime minister)*
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(BOOK REVIEW War and conscience)*
MORAL COMBAT: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh (New York, Harper Collins) Paperback: 576 pages ISBN: 9780007195770 Price: AUD$38.99 Reviewed by Angelique Barr …
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(BOOK REVIEW Dutch warning on where euthanasia leads)*
DO YOU CALL THIS A LIFE? Blurred Boundaries in the Netherlands’ Right-to-Die Laws by Gerbert van Loenen (Ontario, Canada: Ross Lattner) Paperback: 208 pages ISBN: 978189700728…
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(BOOK REVIEW Contemporary reporting of World War II)*
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE WORLD WAR II: 1939-1945: All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front Edited by Richard Overy (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal) Hardc…
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(BOOK REVIEW On the art of governing)*
THE MENZIES ERA: The Years that Shaped Modern Australia by John Howard (Sydney: HarperCollins, 2014) Hardcover: 720 pages ISBN: 9780732296124 Price: AUD$59.95 Reviewed by Joh…
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(BOOK REVIEW Historical myths demolished)*
HOW THE WEST WON: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity by Rodney Stark (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books) Hardcover: 432 pages ISBN: 9781610170857 Price: AUD$55.90 …
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(BOOK REVIEW Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany)*
IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Melbourne: Scribe Publications) Paperback: 466 pages ISBN: 9781921844799 Price: AUD$24…
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(BOOK REVIEW Christianity the crucible of freedom)*
INVENTING THE INDIVIDUAL: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop (UK: Allen Lane / Penguin) Hardcover: 448 pages ISBN: 9780713996449 Price: AUD$39.95 Reviewe…
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