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In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion – a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians up for it? What does the new prime minister embody, if anything? Has the centre of the polity shifted, with the success of the Teals and the Greens? Where could – and should – the new government be ambitious?

From the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, who finished writing this extraordinary book just days before her assassination, comes a groundbreaking vision of how to bridge the widening gap between the Islamic world and the West. Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight...

Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous. NOW THE SUBJECT OF BBC2...

When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, "No." As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: "We have been unable to unearth one bit of tangible evidence of Hitler's death." What really happened? Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams have compiled extensive evidence - some recently declassified - that Hitler actually fled Berlin and took refuge in a remote Nazi enclave in Argentina.

Eindringlich erzählt Biermann vom Vater, der als Jude in Auschwitz ermordet wurde, von der Mutter, die ihn aus dem Hamburger Bombeninferno rettete, vom väterlichen Freund Robert Havemann, mit dem er das Los des Geächteten teilte. Er führt uns in die absurde Welt der DDR-Diktatur. Und er erzählt die Geschichten seiner in den Westen geschmuggelten, im Osten heimlich kursierenden Lieder, deren "Verskunst, robuste Rhetorik und gewaltige Sprachkraft" Marcel Reich-Ranicki lobte.

Gute Verlierer - die besseren Menschen? Manchmal fehlt einem nur das letzte Quentchen Glück zum Erfolg. Wolf Schneider schreibt über weltberühmte Persönlichkeiten, deren Namen man nicht nur mit Ruhm und Ehre in Verbindung bringt. Der eine scheitert kläglich: Ché Guevara. Andere wurden um ihren Sieg betrogen (Rainer Barzel) oder wie die legendäre Maria Stuart vom Thron gestoßen. Interessant an Schneiders Sicht ist, dass die ausgewählten Personen nicht allgemein-biographisch, sondern unter einem bestimmten Aspekt - dem des Erfolgs - betrachtet werden.

Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time, and in Where White Men Fear to Tread, he recounts pivotal moments of his life. Means did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination — from storming Mount Rushmore and seizing Plymouth Rock to running for President in 1988. Perhaps most notoriously, in 1973, Means led a 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

In The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, religion journalist and author Christine Wicker establishes that faith was at the heart of everything Roosevelt wanted for the American people. This powerful book is the first in-depth look at how one of America's richest, most patrician presidents became a passionate and beloved champion of the downtrodden - and took the country with him. Those who knew Roosevelt best invariably credited his spiritual faith as the source of his passion for democracy, justice, and equality.