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Paperback octavo, very good condition. 164 pp. In 2011, history was made and the future broken. One of our most incisive and eloquent observers, Bob Ellis has reviewed the occurrences of 2011 and found it to be a year as important as 1848. He and his collaborators refresh and repopulate our memories with enormous events already forgotten, revealing their coherence and resonance. From the Arab Spring to the London riots and Occupy Wall Street, from the Christchurch earthquake and the Fukushima meltdown to the possible discovery of the Higgs God particle, from the shooting of US Senator Gabby Giffords to her vote on the bill that saved America's economy, from Assange fighting extradition to the Murdoch empire on trial, from the last hours of Kim Jong - il and Vaclav Havel to the Breivik massacre in Norway and the executions of Gaddafi and bin Laden - the year 2011 was portentously charged. The shockwaves from these events continue to reverberate through the corridors of power.