April 29, 2012 Captain Cook by Vanessa Collingridge A while back I dusted off a book about Captain Cook at a market second hand book store and added it to my Australian…
April 30, 2011 Beyond Capricorn by Peter Trickett When I first laid eyes on Beyond Capricorn: How Portuguese adventurers secretly discovered and mapped Australia 250 years before Captain Cook at Hyde Park…
October 30, 2010 Meeting George I had the pleasure of meeting George Negus this week at a CIO function we hosted in Sydney. I’ve been a fan of George…
August 24, 2009 The Maiden Voyage by Geoffrey Marcus When I picked up The Maiden Voyage in a small second hand book store I didn’t think much of the content. To my surprise,…
July 10, 2008 The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley Australian journalist and writer Phillip Knightley meticulously documents the habits of war reporters for the past sesquicentenary of world conflicts. As the title indicates,…
May 12, 2007 Who knew? Don’t you just love retrospect? Regarding IT, it truly is amazing to read opinions of people from yesteryear that today seem so wildly out…
February 21, 2007 Case Closed by Gerald Posner Like many people of my generation, my knowledge of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been largely clouded by popular literature, documentaries…