If you think you ve already heard everything there is to know about the royal family - think again

Even Queen Victoria herself would be amused (not to mention astonished) by the hundreds of revelations to be found within The Royal Book of Lists.

Covering over a thousand years of royal history, this fascinating book tells the often turbulent story of a nation and an empire through those privileged few who came to embody it. In the process, author Matt Richardson has succeeded in highlight all the triumphs, tragedies, and of course the scandals that are central to this rich...

An insightful look at how to reform our broken financial system

The financial crisis that unfolded in September 2008 transformed the United States and world economies. As each day's headlines brought stories of bank failures and rescues, government policies drawn and redrawn against the backdrop of an historic Presidential election, and solutions that seemed to be discarded almost as soon as they were proposed, a group of thirty-three academics at New York University Stern School of Business began tackling the hard questions behind the headlines. Representing fields of...

How, in this age of economic rationalism and a globalised world, does a voice from the billabong saying, 'You'll come a waltzing matilda with me' still matter? "Waltzing Matilda" is the one song that belongs to all Australians. It has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895, when Banjo Paterson wrote the words to it, and Christina Macpherson first played it in outback Queensland. Once a Jolly Swagman takes readers off the score sheet into the story of the song, and tells the story and evolution of Australia's favourite song up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer...