The New International Bookshop
Upcoming Events and New Arrivals for August
Upcoming Events
Exhibitions
Showing Tuesday August 1 to 15
The Impromptu Nine : Jan Crowe, Bill Prout, Rhyll
Deutcher, Beverley Faulkner, Peter Read, Helen Isaacs,
Malcolm Lloyd, Rosemary Mangiamele, Carolyn Urquart
Nine artists, who share a working environment, are
exhibiting together for the first time. They represent
a diverse range of developing artistic languages.
Energetic, colourful and expressive. A day to meet the
artists is being held on Saturday August 12, 2-5pm.
Showing Friday August 25 to September 15
Ben Laycock, Paintings
Ben's relatively large work on show uses gouache and
oils to make social comment through strong colour and
heavily rendered form.
Showing Tuesday September 19 to October 10
Paintings and Sulpture : Margery Hummel-Bennett, Ian
Fitzgerald, Alan Bacon, Sandra Angliss
Several of these artists have had solo exhibitions and
participated in group exhibitions. They have all
trained at RMIT in their nominated fields.
Showing Monday October 16 to November 6
Bernadette Fulton : Recent Photography
In conjunction with the Melbourne Fringe, the New
International Bookshop presents the photographic
images of Bernadette Fulton. The images display some
essentials in feminist theory and have an embossed
relief text panel.
BOOK LAUNCHES
Saturday 5 August 2pm
The First Century : Australia's Federal Elections
since Federation
Doug Aiton and Terry Lane
Written by two well-known radio personalities, this
book is directed towards students of Australian
poloitics and is a complete handbook of Australia's
federal elections and prime ministers since 1901.
Tuesday 22nd August 7pm
Debate: Cuba, Socialism and Democracy
To marke the publication of Peter Taaffe's new book
Cuba, Socialism and Democracy, NIBS' hosts a debate on
the nature of Cuban society between Marcel Cameron
(Democratic Socialist Party) and Stephen Jolly
(Socialist Party).
New Book Arrivals
The Uninvited : Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate,
Profile Books, Jeremy Harding
Jeremy Harding details the plight of refugees and
economic migrants as they attempt the difficult
process of reaching wealthy countries. This is
exceptional piece of documentary journalism which
provides an account of the human price of exclusionary
migration policies of wealthy nations.
R.R.P $16.85
The Global Me : Why Nations Will Succeed or Fail In
The Next Generation, Allen & Unwin
G.Pascal Zachary
A Wall Street Journal Correspondent's visionary,
big-picture look at why countries, businesses and
people win and lose in an increasingly multicutural
world.
R.R.P $27.45
Conflicting Missions? : Teachers Unions and
Educational Reform, Brookings International Press,
Tom Loveless, Editor
This attempt to evaluate the influence of teachers
unions on American Education is a result of a 1998
conference organised by the Program on Education
Policy and Governance at Harvard University.
R.R.P $37.95
Death In Balibo : Lies In Canberra, Allen & Unwin
Desmond Ball & Hamish McDonald
Ball and McDonald evaluate a trial of cover-ups and
denials which reaches from Australia's capital to
Jarkarta. A long-term analyst of Indonesian defence
and foreign policy and a world-renowed expert on
military intelligence, respectively, they uncover what
Canberra has been hiding behind the deaths of five
Australian journalists.
R.R.P $24.95
The Centre Is Mine : Tony Blair, New Labour and The
Future of Electoral Politics, Pluto Press
Jim Claven
Claven Blair's electoral success with special emphasis
on winning the hearts of swinging voters. He assesses
the implications of 'New Labour', for Australia and
other countries.
R.R.P $27.45
Che Guevara : Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary
War, Monthly Review Press
Translated by Victoria Ortiz
Che Guevara is a brilliant, thoughtful writer and in
this book he brings these considerable skills to
provide a detail first person account of his
revolutionary activities.
R.R.P $40.85
The First Century : Australian Federal Politics Since
Federation, Information Australia
Doug Aiton & Terry Lane
This book examines all the election conflicts, issues
and events over Australia's first century, complete
with panels of statistical information. Complusory
reading for anyone interested in Australian politics.
R.R.P $ P.O.A
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