Non-Fiction 2014

Hole’s Live Through This

Anwen Crawford

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt…

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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)

Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food.

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English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don’t Know You Know

Harry Ritchie

A guide to the grammar you already know

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The Penguin Book of Witches

From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned…

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The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

James Fallon

A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family’s brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern…

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Clean Living Fast Food

Luke Hines,Scott Gooding

Bondi boys Luke and Scott are back, and this time they’re out to cure your junk food cravings! One of the biggest challenges of embarking on a new diet is…

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Soviet Space Dogs

Marianne Van den Lemmer,FUEL,Inna Cannon

On 3 November 1957, the dog Laika was the first Earth-born creature to enter space, making her instantly famous around the world. She did not return. Her death, a few…

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)

Throughout her distinguished career, the author has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression. In this book, she elaborates a utopian vision for the kind…

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The Missing Pieces

Henri Lefebvre

The Missing Pieces offers a treasure trove of cultural and artistic detail and will entertain even those readers not enamored of the void.

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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease

Daniel Lieberman

Shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies. This book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. It…

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Literary Rivals: Literary Antagonism, Writers’ Feuds and Private Vexations

Richard Bradford

Richard Bradford’s highly entertaining book looks at some of the closest and most complex friendships in literary history and examines the fallout on relationships and on literature itself.

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The Best American Essays 2014

John Jeremiah Sullivan

The Best American Essays 2014 is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection Pulphead.

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Australia Under Surveillance

Frank Moorhouse

ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance…

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Knowledge is Beautiful

David McCandless

In this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works.

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Birds of Australia: A Photographic Guide

Iain Campbell,Sam Woods,Nick Leseberg

Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occuring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning color photographs, including many photos of subspecies and plumage variations…

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The Secrets of the Anzacs: The untold story of venereal disease in the Australian army, 1914-1919

Raden Dunbar

Here is a truly astonishing statistic: during World War I, about 60,000 soldiers in the Australian Imperial Force were treated by army doctors in Egypt, Europe, and Australia for venereal…

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Horses in Australia: An illustrated history

Nicolas Brasch

This beautifully illustrated book celebrates the horse in Australia past and present. From Cobb & Co to Black Caviar, from the Walers of World War I to The Man from…

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Guide To Troubled Birds

The Mincing Mockingbird

Throughout the book you will read tales of murder, assault, mental breakdowns, obesity, drug abuse, and infidelity among these birds. This guide, while ignored by leading ornithologists, is used and…

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Australia 1901 - 2001: A Narrative History

Andrew Tink

Andrew Tink’s superb book tells the story of Australia in the twentieth century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A century marked by the trauma of war and the…

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Between Us: Women of Letters

Michaela McGuire,Marieke Hardy

Our biggest and most exciting Women of Letters collection yet! Between Us features the warmth, intelligence and letters we’ve come to expect from Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, but also…

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the nation’s laboratories and its finest scientific and literary minds. Featuring prominent authors, it covers topics as diverse…

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We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.

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Yes Please

Amy Poehler

The highly anticipated memoir of actress, comedienne and writer, Amy Poehler.

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Margaret & Gough: The Love Story That Shaped a Nation

Susan Mitchell

This is the compelling story of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his wife Margaret and their 70-year relationship - personal and political, private and public. It is a story of…

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Dame Maggie Scott: A Life In Dance

Michelle Potter

A wonderful celebration of the life of Dame Maggie Scott, recognizing her contribution to dance over the last 67 years.

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Historic Heston

Heston Blumenthal

The greatest British dishes, as reinvented by Heston Blumenthal - in a beautiful, smaller format edition.

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An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?

Geoffrey Robertson, QC

Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the most controversial question that is still being asked about World War One.

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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help us to Understand Ourselves

Laurel Braitman

For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings…

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Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

Linda Tirado

An urgent, uncompromising and heartfelt insider’s account of what it is like to be poor and working-class in the modern West

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Drunk Tank Pink: The Subconscious Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

Adam Alter

‘The best science book I’ve read all year… really provocative.’ Malcolm Gladwell

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Our Ageing Brain: How our mental capacities develop as we grow older

Andrew Aleman

Our Ageing Brain is a refreshing, informative, and ultimately positive book about what happens to our brains as we grow older. Drawing on the latest research, it tells you what…

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A Bone of Fact

David Walsh

MONA’s David Walsh is an enigma in the Australian art world. A Bone of Fact is his unconventional, absorbing and brilliantly surprising memoir.

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The Wife Drought

Annabel Crabb

For decades, feminism has argued the case for getting women into the workplace. Affirmative action, support schemes, paid maternity leave…all valuable devices, and yet still we agonise over why women…

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Kevin Rudd: Twice Prime Minister

Patrick Weller

Beginning with Rudd’s childhood in rural Queensland, examines the people, places and politics that shaped him into the leader he is today. A frank analysis of Kevin Rudd’s leadership style…

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It’s Not You, Geography, It’s Me

Kristy Chambers

From the author of the bestselling Get Well Soon! My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse comes a hilarious - and brutally honest - memoir about mental illness and depression. For…

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Dick Hamer: The liberal Liberal

Tim Colebatch

He was the reforming leader who made Victoria a leader in social equality, the arts, and the environment. He and his government built the underground rail loop, decriminalised homosexuality, abolished…

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The Dangerous Bride: A Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography

Lee Kofman

Lee Kofman, rebellious daughter of ultra-orthodox Jews, has always sought her own way. True to her Bohemian dream where love can coexist with sexual freedom, she decided to experiment with…

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Friendship

A. C. Grayling

What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? The author tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals…

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A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth

Noel Pearson

Over the next two years, Australians will decide if and how Aboriginal people will be recognised in the Constitution. Professor Greg Craven writes: ‘We have a committed Prime Minister, and…

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Blood & Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars

Sam Vincent

Confrontations between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd activists make for exciting news reports during the Australian summer. But the sensational headlines and dramatic footage - eco warriors pitted against the…

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Refugees: Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia’s policies are not

Jane McAdam,Fiona Chong

If you listen to some politicians and voices in the media, you might well believe that asylum seekers are ‘illegal’. You might think that they should wait their turn in…

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Hitler’s Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Bodyguard

Rochus Misch

After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler’s SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war’s end as Hitler’s bodyguard, courier, orderly and…

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How to Get There

Maggie MacKellar

After Maggie Mackellar’s acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of…

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Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

A sharp, funny and sincere look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are.

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Dress, Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses

Lorelei Vashti

A charming coming-of-age memoir in which every dress tells a story. Dress, Memory is about a decade in dresses. Perceptive and poignant, humorous and heartwarming, it’s the story of growing…

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Class Act: Ending the Education Wars

Maxine McKew

In Class Act Maxine McKew calls for a ceasefire in the education wars-the largely irrelevant arguments over national curricula and governance issues. - See more at: https://www.mup.com.au/items/149039#sthash.rZolINQj.dpuf

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Rules of Engagement: FOXTEL, football, News and wine: The secrets of a business builder and cultural maestro

Kim Williams

From FOXTEL to News Corp, film to football, opera to business, Kim Williams is a builder of Australian institutions. He has worked with some of the very best in their…

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Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life

George Monbiot

How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite…

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Non-Fiction 2014

Hole’s Live Through This

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don’t Know You Know

The Penguin Book of Witches

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

Clean Living Fast Food

Soviet Space Dogs

Readings

The Missing Pieces

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease

Literary Rivals: Literary Antagonism, Writers’ Feuds and Private Vexations

The Best American Essays 2014

Australia Under Surveillance

Knowledge is Beautiful

Birds of Australia: A Photographic Guide

The Secrets of the Anzacs: The untold story of venereal disease in the Australian army, 1914-1919

Horses in Australia: An illustrated history

Guide To Troubled Birds

Australia 1901 - 2001: A Narrative History

Between Us: Women of Letters

The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

We Should All Be Feminists

Yes Please

Margaret & Gough: The Love Story That Shaped a Nation

Dame Maggie Scott: A Life In Dance

Historic Heston

An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?

Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help us to Understand Ourselves

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

Drunk Tank Pink: The Subconscious Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

Our Ageing Brain: How our mental capacities develop as we grow older

A Bone of Fact

The Wife Drought

Kevin Rudd: Twice Prime Minister

It’s Not You, Geography, It’s Me

Dick Hamer: The liberal Liberal

The Dangerous Bride: A Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography

Friendship

A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth

Blood & Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars

Refugees: Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia’s policies are not

Hitler’s Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Bodyguard

How to Get There

Bad Feminist

Dress, Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses

Class Act: Ending the Education Wars

Rules of Engagement: FOXTEL, football, News and wine: The secrets of a business builder and cultural maestro

Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life