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COMMITTEES OF INQUIRY. By Gerald Rhodes SOLDIERS AND STUDENTS: A Study of Right-and Left-Wing Radicals. By Rob Kroes ACADEMICS, POLITICS, AND THE 1972 ELECTION: By Everett C. Ladd Jr. and S.M. Lipset THE URBAN POLITICAL SYSTEM. By Eugene Lewis THE CASE FOR THE ARAB OIL EMBARGO: A Legal Analysis of Arab Oil Measures. By Ibrahim F.I. Shihata FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: Australian People in Change. By David Dufty, Helen Johnman, John Ogle and Peter Walsh THE POLITICS OF CLASS AND CLASS ORIGIN: The Case of the Cultural Revolution. By Gordon White. REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION AND POLITICAL UNITY IN WESTERN NATIONS. By Richard Rose and Derek W. Urwin THE FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF POLITICS. By David Mitrany THE BOLSHEVIKS AND THE October REVOLUTION: Central Committee Minutes of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) August I 9 17-February 1918. Translated from the Russian by Ann Bone INFLATION, GROWTH AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE. By Sir Alec Cairncross THE NEUTRALITY OF NUMBERS? IDS Bulletin 7, 3 October 1975 JEWISH POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR: Two studies. By H. Katz and 0. Seliktar. THE 1975 NORTHERN IRELAND CONVENTION ELECTION. By Ian McAllister. SIAM'S POLITICAL FUTURE: Documents from the End of the Absolute Monarchy. Compiled and edited by Benjamin A. Batson. PRE-COLONIAL STATE SYSTEMS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA: Edited by Anthony Reid and Lance Castles. SAIS REVIEW PAPUA NEW GUINEAN HISTORY & POLITICS: An Annotated Bibliography 1950- 1974. By Gregory Jones POLITICS IN PRACTICE. By Lord Windlesham MARGARET THATCHER: A Personal and Political Biography. By Russell Lewis AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. By P.H. Lane CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA. By I.K.F. Birch THE GOVERNMENT OF EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA: The Origins of Federal Policy. By P.D. Tannock THE REFORMED LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM. By Peter G. Richards. Second edition THE OMBUDSMAN PLAN: Essays on the Worldwide Spread of an Idea. By Donald C. Rowat THE ROMAN LAND SURVEYORS. An Introduction to the Agrimensores. By O.A.W. Dilke THE UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC IN THE GREAT EAST-EUROPEAN REVOLUTION: A Bibliography. Volume six, part 11. Compiled by O.S. and 0.1. Pidhainy THE HISTORY OF IDEAS A Bibliographical Introduction. Volume I. Classical Antiquity. By Jeremy L. Tobey IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS. By Martin Seliger THE HEART OF THE BAITLE: for a New Social Contract. By Edgar Faure TRADE UNIONS IN AUSTRALIA. By Ross M. Martin THE INFORMATION SOURCES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. By Frederick L. Holler. THE POLITICS O F PLURALISM: A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Ghana. By David R. Smock and Audrey C. Smock THE SHORT-WAR ILLUSION: German Policy, Strategy and Domestic Affairs August-December 1914. By L.L. Farrer, Jr. DIPLOMATS IN CRISIS: United States-Chinese-Japanese Relations, 19 19- 1941. Edited by Richard Dean Burns and Edward M. Bennett THE ORIGINS OF AUSTRALIAN METEOROLOGY. By W.J. Gibbs     

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JOHN CARTWRIGHT. By John W. Osborne THE ABERYSTWYTH PAPERS: International Politics 1919–1969. Edited by Brian Porter FROM SADOWA TO SARAJEVO: The Foreign Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1866–1914. By F. R. Bridge LAUNCESTON BANK FOR SAVINGS, 1835–1870: A History of Australia's oldest Savings Bank. By E. A. Beever AUSTRALIAN SENATE PRACTICE. By J. R. Odgers COMPARATIVE COMMUNIST POLITICAL LEADERSHIP. By Carl Beck, F. J. Fleron, M. Lodge, D. J. Waller, W. Welch and N. G. Zaninovich SOCIALISATION IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by F. J. Hunt COLONIALISM, DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENCE: The case of the Melanesian islands in the South Pacific. By H. C. Brookfield MACHIAVELLI: The prince, Selections from The Discourses and other Writings. Selected and introduced by John Plamenatz THE POLITICAL CALCULUS: Essays On Machiavelli's Philosophy. Edited by Anthony Parel HISTORIANS AND THE OPEN SOCIETY. By A. R. Bridbury THE EVANGELISTIC BUREAUCRAT: A Study of a Planning Exercise in Newscastle upon Tyne. By Jon Gower Davies ROMAN FRANCE. By Paul MacKendrick A HISTORY OF JAPAN. By R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger SINCE 1945: Aspects of contemporary world history. Edited by J. L. Henderson REVOLUTIONS AND PEACE TREATIES 1917–1920. By G. Schulz, translated by M. Jackson GREAT BRITAIN AND THE WAR OF 1914–1918. By Sir Llewellyn Woodward THE CONDUCT OF WAR 1789–1961: A Study of the impact of the French, Industrial and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct. By Major-General J. F. C. Fuller BRONTERRE: A Political Biography of Bronterre O'Brien, 1804–1864. By Alfred Plummer THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Causes, Conduct and Consequences. Edited by Joachim Renam RECORDS OF INTEREST TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS 1919 TO 1939. Edited by Brenda Swann nd Maureen Turnbull TUMBLE-DOWN DICK: The Fall of the House of Cromwell. By Earl Malcolm Hause RUSSIAN HISTORY ATLAS. By Martin Gilbert. Cartographic consultant Arthur Banks A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PAPACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By Walter Ullmann     

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THE ELIZABETHAN MILITIA, 1558–1638. By Lindsay Boynton. GOVERNOR ARTHUR'S CONVICT SYSTEM:Van Diemens Land 1824-36, a study in colonisation. By W. D. Forsyth. OPINIONS, PUBLICS AND PRESSURE GROUPS: An essay on oox populi and represent- ANATOMY OF A MERGER: A history of G.E.C., A.E.I., and English Electric. By Robert Jones and Oliver Marriott. CHURCH LOBBYING IN A WESTERN STATE: A case study on abortion legislation. THE ARIZONA TRAIN LIMIT CASE: Southern Pacific vs. Arizona. By Richard C. Cortner. THE MONEY MACHINES: The Breakdown and Reform of Governmental and Party Finance THE DEPRESSION OF THE NINETIES: An Economic History. By Charles Hoffman. AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMACY. By W. J. Hudson. THE TESTRO STORY 1911–1970. By Rex Testro A GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OR GAZETTEER OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES LENINS CHILDHOOD. By Isaac Deutscher. APES AND ANGELS: The Irishman in Victorian caricature. By L. Perry Curtis. BLOODY VERSICLES: The Rhymes of Crime. By Jonathan Goodman. GOLD AND MEGALITHIC ACTIVITY IN PREHISTORIC AND RECENT WEST BORNEO. By Tom Harisson and Stanley J. POLITICAL PARTIES OF AFRICA AND WESTERN HISTORIOGRAPHY. By A. Letnev.     

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AN ANALYSIS OF FULL EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA: Labour Market Studies No. 2. MIND THE CURVE! A history of the cable trams. By John D. Keating. COOK THE WRITER. By J. C. Beaglehole. CAPTAIN COOK: Navigator and Scientist. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, 1 May 1969. Edited by G. M. Badger. CAPTAIN COOK'S AUSTRALIAN LANDFALLS: Eyewitness accounts by members of the ship's company of H.M.S. Endeavour 1770. By W. D. Forsyth. THE SQUATTING AGE IN AUSTRALIA. By S. H. Roberts. THE CONVICT SETTLERS OF AUSTRALIA: An enquiry into the origin and character of the convicts transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1787–1852. By L. L. Robson. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, BOTANIST AND EXPLORER. By W. G. McMinn. ISLAM IN INDIA'S TRANSITION TO MODERNITY. By M. A. Karandikar. COMMUNALISM AND THE WRITING OF INDIAN HISTORY. By Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia and Bipan Chandra. LENIN THROUGH INDIAN EYES. By K. P. S. Menon. THE PARTITION OF AFRICA: Illusion or Necessity. Edited by Robert O. Collins. CONSUMERS IN POLITICS: A history and general review of the Co-operative Party. By Thomas F. Carbery. KANT'S POLITICAL WRITINGS. Edited with an introduction by Hans Reiss. SELF AND SOCIETY IN MEDIAEVAL FRANCE: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent (1064?-c1125). Edited with an introduction and notes by John F. Benton. UNDERSTANDING THE CONSTITUTION: Fifth edition of Edward S. Corwin and Jack W. Peltason's 1949 volume. By J. W. Peltason. MODERN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC: The Federal Budget and the Public Sector in National Economic Accounts. By Bruce F. Davie and Bruce F. Duncombe. POWER IN AMERICAN STATE LEGISLATURES: Case Studies of the Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma legislatures. Edited by Alex B. Lacy Jr. AMERICAN POLITICS: Research and Readings. Edited by Stephen V. Monsma and Jack Van Der Slik. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICS: A Reader. Edited by William J. Crotty. SUBNATIONAL POLITICS: Readings in State and Local Government. By Joseph F. Zimmerman. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. Edited by Michael Haas and Henry S. Kariel. MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: Octagon Lectures, 1969. Edited by R. T. Appleyard. A WORLD IN REVOLUTION? The University Lectures, 1970. Edited by Eugene Kamenka. THE PENDULUM YEARS: Britain and the Sixties. By Bernard Levin.