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Driven

A Diplomat's Auto-biography

By: Richard Broinowski

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Driven

A Diplomat's Auto-biography

By: Richard Broinowski

The memoir of Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski DRIVEN is a memoir by distinguished Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski, with a particular focus on the cars he has loved and driven in Australia and his various postings in Asia, the Middle East, and North and Central America. this makes for an entertaining way of looking at various cultures (their driving behaviour, traffic conditions and road rules) and his career as an Australian ambassador. Part offbeat travel book, part career memoir, it is an engaging and personal look at one man's life and enduring loves. Perfect reading for car nostalgia buffs and lovers of travel books and biographies alike.

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254

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HarperCollins Australia

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0730495760

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9780730495765

Driven

A Diplomat's Auto-biography

By: Richard P. Broinowski

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Driven

A Diplomat's Auto-biography

By: Richard P. Broinowski

DRIVEN is a memoir by distinguished Australian former diplomat Richard Broinowski, with a particular focus on the cars he has loved and driven in Australia and his various postings in Asia, the Middle East, and North and Central America. This makes for an entertaining way of looking at various cultures (their driving behaviour, traffic conditions and road rules) and his career as an Australian ambassador. Part offbeat travel book, part career memoir, it is an engaging and personal look at one man's life and enduring loves. Perfect reading for car nostalgia buffs and lovers of travel books and biographies alike.

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250

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Dogwise Publishing

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0733324037

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9780733324031

Fallout from Fukushima

By: Richard Broinowski

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Fallout from Fukushima

By: Richard Broinowski

On 11 March 2011, a force-9 earthquake jolted the seabed 66 kilometres due east of Japan. Within 20 minutes, a black tsunami wave 14 metres high rolled in from above the epicentre. While struggling with the unfolding destruction, Japan had to cope with a third calamity -- the malfunctioning of a nuclear-power complex near the town of Fukushima.

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289

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Scribe Publications

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1922070165

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9781922070166

Schroders

Merchants & Bankers

By: Richard Roberts

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Schroders

Merchants & Bankers

By: Richard Roberts

J.Henry Schroder Wagg & Co has been a leading merchant bank of the City of London for more than a century. This book tells its history, from its founding in 1818 by John Henry Schroder, a Hamburg merchant, through difficult times in the international slump of the early 1930s, to its rise to one of the largest and most prestigious of city firms in London today.

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695

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Springer

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ISBN 10

1349096504

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9781349096503

Planning for Crime Prevention

A Transatlantic Perspective

By: Ted Kitchen,Richard H Schneider

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Planning for Crime Prevention

A Transatlantic Perspective

By: Ted Kitchen,Richard H Schneider

A comparative study of defensible space and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as applied in the USA and the UK, focusing particularly on urban experience.

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356

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Routledge

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1134549261

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9781134549269

Surface Collection

Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia

By: Denis Richard Byrne

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Surface Collection

Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia

By: Denis Richard Byrne

Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in an engaging and accessible way. In each chapter the author makes the past relevant to the present through his encounters with archaeological sites. While the book's anecdotes are associated primarily with Thailand and Indonesia--from a decaying National Museum in Manila, to the search for traces of the thousands of Communists who were killed after an attempted coup in Bali, to the discovery of a bottle of perfume found among the personal effects of Indonesian ex-president Sukarno--they have broad international interest because of the issues they raise. These archaeological stories, again and again, remind us what history both remembers and conceals.

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212

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Rowman Altamira

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0759110182

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9780759110182

Politics and the General in Supreme Command

Law Reform and Averting Unjust War

By: Richard Adams

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Politics and the General in Supreme Command

Law Reform and Averting Unjust War

By: Richard Adams

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question. The entire spread‐out chain of command is unified in the general, who offers the only connection between the military and politics. Offering the sole connection between the military and politics, only the general can turn political directions into military command and capacitate war. Thus, the general has unique opportunity to resist unconscionable direction to launch an unjust war or to conduct or expand war unjustly. This book argues for reform, so the general has the right in law to refuse direction which is lawful, but awful. The legal capacity to refuse would mean the general would be expected to act responsibly, not merely as the unresisting pawn of politics. Such reform, creating legal opportunity for the supreme command to refuse lawful but unconscionable directives, might avert unjust war. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, civil‐military relations, and international relations.

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215

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Taylor & Francis

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1040260888

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9781040260883

Permanent Revolution

Mike Brown and the Australian Avant-garde 1953 - 1997

By: Richard Haese

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Permanent Revolution

Mike Brown and the Australian Avant-garde 1953 - 1997

By: Richard Haese

In 1961 the 22-year-old Mike Brown joined the New Zealand artist, Ross Crothall, in an old terrace house in inner Sydney's Annandale. Over the following two years the artists filled the house with a remarkable body of work. Launched with an equally extraordinary exhibition, the movement they called Imitation Realism introduced collage, assemblage and installation to Australian art for the first time. Laying the groundwork for a distinctive Australian postmodernism, Imitation Realism was also the first Australian art movement to respond in a profound way to Aboriginal art, and to the tribal art of New Guinea and the Pacific region. By the mid-1960s Brown was already the most controversial figure in Australian art. In 1963 a key work was thrown out of a major travelling exhibition for being overtly sexual; a year later he publicly attacked Sydney artists and critics for having failed the test of integrity. Finally, in 1966-67, Brown became the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity. Brown spent the last 28 years of his life in Melbourne, where his reputation for radicalism and nonconformity was cemented with his multiplicity of styles, exploration of themes of sexuality, and transgressive commitment to the ideal of street art and graffiti. Against a background of the counter-culture and the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, Brown's art and remarkable life of personal and creative struggle is without parallel in Australian art.

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155

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The Miegunyah Press

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052286080X

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9780522860801

Fallout from Fukushima

By: Richard Broinowski

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Fallout from Fukushima

By: Richard Broinowski

On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force - nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns collapsed, villages were destroyed, and 16,000 people were swept away. The earthquake and tsunami also resulted in another terrifying calamity - explosions and meltdowns at a nuclear plant near the city of Fukushima. "Fallout from Fukushima" tells the story of Japan's worst nuclear disaster, and the attempts to suppress, downplay, and obscure its consequences. Former diplomat Richard Broinowski travelled into the irradiated zone to speak to those affected and to find out why authorities delayed warning the public about the severity of the radiation. Combining interviews, research, and analysis, he reveals the extent of the disaster's consequences: the ruinous compensation claims faced by electricity supplier TEPCO; the complete shutdown of Japan's nuclear reactors; and the psychological impact on those who, unable to return to their farms and villages, may become permanent nuclear refugees. In this illuminating and persuasive account, Broinowski puts this nuclear tragedy in context, tracing the path back through Tokyo, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl. Examining what the disaster will mean for the international nuclear industry, he explores why some countries are abandoning nuclear power, while others - including Australia, through its export of uranium - continue to put their faith in this dangerous technology.

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372

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ReadHowYouWant

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1459653777

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9781459653771

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Planning for Crime Prevention

Planning for Crime Prevention

Surface Collection

Surface Collection

Politics and the General in Supreme Command

Politics and the General in Supreme Command

Permanent Revolution

Permanent Revolution

Fallout from Fukushima

Fallout from Fukushima

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