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Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
Category: Architecture | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister by John Edwards
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
Expanding Universe. the Hubble Space Telescope by Charles F. Bolden; Jr.; Owen Edwards; John Mace Grunsfeld; Zoltan Levay
Category: Science
With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand n ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
Category: Australiana
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
John Curtin's War Volume II - Triumph and Decline by John Edwards
Category: Australiana
The first volume of John Curtin?s War was recognized as 'a landmark in Australian political biography? (The Australian) and 'remarkable? (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia?s place in the world- 'The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.? Th ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
Category: Australiana
What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th ...Show more
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards; John Magee
Category: Business
Based on the research and experience of Dow, Schabacker, and Edwards, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, Ninth Edition presents proven techniques, methods, and procedures for success, even in today's unpredictable markets. New and updated material on Dow Theory and long term investing, including new t ...Show more
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards, John Magee, W.H.C. Bassetti
Category: Business
This revised and updated version presents proven long- and short-term stock trend analysis enabling investors to make smart, profitable trading decisions. Expanded material will be offered on Pragmatic Portfolio Theory as a more elegant alternative to Modern Portfolio Theory; and a more powerful alterna ...Show more
The Cornish Coast Murder - A British Library Crime Classic by John Bude; Martin Russ Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - b ...Show more
The Geeks of War: The Secretive Labs and Brilliant Minds Behind Tomorrow's Warfare Technologies by John Edwards
Category: Military
Wars are fought on the battlefield, but the technologies that enable 21st century warfare are developed in research laboratories.Within the walls of corporate, government, and academic labs, researchers are probing the edges of science to uncover technologies that will make warfare more efficient - and ...Show more