{"title":"Books","description":"Books available through the Citizens Party.","products":[{"product_id":"a-voyage-of-discovery","title":"A Voyage of Discovery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Lance Endersbee, 264 pages, hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e(Limited stock available as is now out of print)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘A scientific detective story…’  ‘Superbly produced, with copious figures…’  ‘impressive, quietly-argued…’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘A Voyage of Discovery’ by Lance Endersbee is now out of print and hard to find.  The Australian Citizens Party has some of the last copies available. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProf. Endersbee, a former president of the Institution of Engineers Australia, writes of his book, ‘(it) is a report of my enquiries, written for the general reader and the professions involved, and also to help young scientists and engineers appreciate the exciting history of ideas in science. It has been written as a scientific detective story, where each clue is part of the mystery. All the clues combine to reveal a new picture of our wonderful world”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmong other startling ideas, Endersbee makes a compelling argument that deep groundwater, upon which 3 billion people depend for their fresh water, is NOT replenished by rainfall.  Rather it is \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eplutonic\u003c\/em\u003e, meaning it was formed by seismic and magma processes deep within the earth.  This in turn means the withdrawal of fresh water from deep wells is a \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eone-way process\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the human species must realize this and compensate for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘I’m not a sceptic, I’m an angry professor’, said Prof. Endersbee. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat was he angry about?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘I detected a common thread of human factors that lead to the disregard of all evidence or information that was contrary to the fashionable view.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBased on his extensive research, which included reviving the work of many all-but-forgotten scientific geniuses, Prof. Endersbee concludes the freshwater crisis has been greatly underplayed, and climate change has been overplayed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEndersbee makes much of the argument that the earth is dynamic in the sense of ‘continuing to evolve’. This concept is somewhat at variance with the widely held view that the earth is essentially constant like a clock, following a regular program of days and seasons, with small variations of climate and geological activity within established and predictable ranges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChapters 12 to 27 cover a wide range of related topics. There is a review of the fascinating possibility that the earth may be expanding, comments on the origin of deep earthquakes, sedimentary basins and fold mountains, the origin of petroleum and even the recent ice ages, the record of the ice cores and the history of the moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGet your copy of this rare and fascinating book now, which is sure to delight and surprise the inquiring mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Citizens Party","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31888642244667,"sku":"VOD","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0302\/9762\/0539\/products\/Voyage-of-Discovery_Product-Specific_500x500_f2f9051c-0c22-4b88-8d62-a0c3c47241c8.jpg?v=1580965270"},{"product_id":"saviour-on-a-shoestring-denise-brailey","title":"Saviour on a shoestring— the life’s work of consumer advocate Denise Brailey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Citizens Party is honoured to promote a new 88-page pictorial book, “Saviour on a Shoestring”, about our wonderful friend and collaborator, Denise Brailey. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoon after the global financial crisis the Citizens Party began working with Denise to expose the extensive mortgage fraud by banks that had destroyed thousands of Australians. Denise had fought for consumers against financial corruption and wrongdoing for decades, in Western Australia and then all across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was David vs. financial Goliaths, but was amazingly effective in forcing action on major scandals and very big issues. She helped to persuade then-Labor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to support a banking royal commission, which eventually forced the government to establish the Hayne Royal Commission that exposed to the whole nation the wrongdoing she had fought for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer last campaign, alongside the Citizens Party, was for the elderly tenants of the Sterling First rent-for-life scheme, whose lives were ruined due to the failings of the WA government and Commonwealth government agency ASIC. Denise’s poor health has brought an end to her consumer advocacy, but the record of her work, contained in this beautiful pictorial book compiled by her son Lee Doyle, inspires the Citizens Party, and will inspire all readers, to always fight for justice for financial victims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGet your copy of thisfascinating book now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Citizens Party","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46598636503202,"sku":"SAV-Book","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0302\/9762\/0539\/files\/SaviouronaShoestring500px.jpg?v=1771384319"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0302\/9762\/0539\/collections\/Books.jpg?v=1580968923","url":"https:\/\/store.australianalert.au\/collections\/books.oembed","provider":"Australian Alert - Online Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}