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|  | | A Bunch of Amateurs
Sub-title:
The Tragedy of Government and Administration in
Australia
In the 19th century, Australians had the highest standard of living in the world.
By the early 20th century, the Americans lived better but the Europeans and Japanese were still a long way behind.
By 1945, the Americans were still ahead but Europe was in ruins and Japan devastated. From Australia's bounty it helped bail out Britain and doled out aid all around the world.
Forty years later, how things have changed.
For many years, Australia has been going downhill relative to other old rich and even some newly-rich countries. The economy has failed to diversify and mat | |  | | America's Suicidal Statecraft
Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.
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P>B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: norm | |  | | Dirty Weekend
Dirty Weekend is a collection of sexy short stories written over fifty-years from 1954 to 2010,
Love's quality should be calculated in a number of ways, including memorability. Evelyn Waugh wrote of the “remembered pleasure” of an act of love. If it is of high quality, it can be remembered and enjoyed – it can provide pleasure in recollection – for years, perhaps a lifetime afterwards. The man who made love to Sally at the coast or the man who was visited by Jenny in hospital will remember it always. So will she. Both lovers will also remember forever the un-sound-proofed room at the hotel in which once they made love. In the same way, Jeremy and Angie | |  | | Haverleigh
A Story of Love and War
| |  | | How to become a Millionaire - without really working
The keys to successful investment in real estate, shares, stamps, the lot.
| |  | | Inflation
Sub-title: A Study in Stability
| |  | | Operation Equaliser
A Luxury ship sets off on a young people's 'Love Boat' cruise. Top-level scientists go missing in America, Britain and the Soviet Union. The clandestine transfer of a sensitive cargo in mid-Atlantic goes wrong. A small west African country has a coup...
These random events seem connected. But in what way?
The mystery deepens as the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency struggle to find solutions. Soviet Union goes on full alert. The United States responds. But it's not the Super-Powers themselves, but a new power which has pushed the world to the brink...
| |  | | The Demon Money
A book that describes the global situation after the "Fiscal Cliff" of end 2012.
| |  | | The Hedonists
A story of unrequited love, sex and diplomacy
The Hedonists is a rollicking story of sex and diplomacy in the lives of two dedicated pleasure-seekers: Randall Pascoe Maitland, a young diplomatist who sprinkles his erotic escapades with occasional prickings of conscience and even fewer acts of heroism; and Howard Winston Jocelyn The Third, an up-and-coming executive and ex-Don Juan, now obsessed with a she-devil. Traversing a largely joyous and self-indulgent world, they journey together from Africa via New York and Mexico, to a rambunctious finale in Mugga Way, in far-off Australia. On the way, a beautiful playmate, Angela, recants a | |  | | The Human Mirror
Sub-title The Narcissistic Imperative in Human Behaviour.
What is the most powerful driving force in our lives? Is it sex, as Freud postulated, or is there an overdrive to sex that is linked with our sense of personal identity? Does this narcissistic imperative rule our selection of our lifetime partner and some of our more virtuous social conduct but can it also be the origin of our most intense hatreds and of racism, organised violence and tribal, regional and world wars?
Whom do we fall in love with? With whom do we make love most joyously? Why don't we like people of other races and religions equally with our own?
The narcissistic imperative affects every aspect of our individual and social lives. We identify with the institution in which we work, the god in whom or which we believe, the football team for which we cheer.
Institutional narcissism, with its narcissistic transference, can be even more powerful than individual narcissism, leading to mob rule, racism and persecution, to tribal and religious conflicts and wars of mass deaths and massive dev | |  | | The Indigent Rich
A Theory of General Equilibrium in a Keynesian System
THE INDIGENT RICH How can we beat inflation and still keep our economy brisk and healthy? How can we ease balance of payments problems, cut currency crises and enable the rich countries to help the poor? Why are the richest countries often so indigent that they can't meet the needs of their sick, disabled, and aged, or care for the environment and defend the only Earth we'll ever have?
THE INDIGENT RICH gives vital answers to these questions and suggests that the Keynesian policies, which brought us such progress between 1945 and 1969 need only some clear-sighted, relatively simple adj | |  | | The Reconstruction of the World Economy
Well-managed growth to stimulate investment,
productivity and production are
needed for world stability and prosperity.
Between 1945 and 1970 Keynesian policies were successful in bringing great changes to our economy and society. However, the necessary changes to our methods of maintaining stability at the pot, or inflationary, end of the economic cycle have not been forthcoming.
How, then, can the present economic problems of the world be solved? Dr. Cumes examines the problems that have arisen out of Keyenesian policies and he puts forward lucid and rational suggestions for both economists and politicians.
Policies which restrict production, productivity and employment have not worked, nor will | |  | | The Young Bug
The Young Bug tells the story of a miraculous phenomenon that reverses the ageing process and makes its "victims" young again. The Human Rejuvenation Syndrome or HURS makes people more youthful in physical appearance and in their social and sexual behaviour. The lame are now able to walk again and love blossoms with all the romantic fervour of youth.
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div align="left">to take over the entire country. All those great issues of love, youth and joy were not just a matter of banner-waving and street dancing. They were about to be | |  | | Their Chastity was not too Rigid
THEIR CHASTITY WAS NOT TOO RIGID is the first study devoted to leisure times in early Australia. The violent, vindictive, vulgar society of the Britain that settled a convict colony in Sydney in 1788, brought gambling and horseracing, cricket and prizefighting and a love of boisterous leisure that characterized the Old Country. Good theatre and music soon followed. The early generations of Australians found more of their heroes among sportsmen, entertainers and artists than among princes and politicians. CHASTITY introduces some of their earliest celebrities - Elizabeth Macarthur, John Piper, Barnett Levey, Eliza Winstanley, William Vincent Wallace, Georgiana McCrae, William Sparkes, John Perry the Black, George Coppin, even the fabulous Madonna of her day, Lola Montez.
| |  | | Uncle Rupert
The Man Who Threw Money over Back Fences
"Uncle Rupert," the story begins, "was our Cargo Cult." Enchanting, intriguing and elusive, the man who throws money over back fences starts work in a bank under the egregious Mr Harfglass. Propelled by fear of marriage to the predatory Iro, he flees the bank and goes on the track. But he always cares for those he loves. He meets Godfrey Bronze, a battler for the battlers all his life, and wins political office. He becomes Foreign Minister and "President of the World", but, again, he opts for freedom to seek better ways of "throwing money over back fences". He uses the strengths of the capital |
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