Non-fiction 2019

Vox Populi
A witty and engaging beginner's guide to the Classics, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka!
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A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace
A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace.
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Animal Languages
A fascinating and philosophical exploration of animal intelligence and the way animals communicate with each other, and us.
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Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump
President Trump has left the US people with no choice but to remove him from office, so explains celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.
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Inner Worlds Outer Spaces: The Working Lives of Others
Intimate portraits of people who love what they do
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Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis
How can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? We are facing a global emergency. Temperatures are rising. Mass species extinction has begun. The time for denial is over. It is time to act.
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How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog
In this uniquely entertaining take on morality and ethics, the dutiful duo set out to uncover who - if anyone - has the right end of the ethical stick and can tell us how best to live one's life.
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The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies
From Schubert to Springsteen, Archie Roach to Amy Winehouse, comes an illuminating history of the song for every kind of music lover.
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Arboretum
An intimate, enigmatic glimpse into the mind of the legendary musician and internationally bestselling author of How Music Works. With a new introduction by the author
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The Strayan Dictionary
The most un-un-Australian dictionary ever created, The Strayan Dictionary is your indispensable guide to the native tongue of Warnie, Hawkie, Dame Nellie, Kylie (Minogue and Mole), Little Johnny, Barty and of course Boonie.
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Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration
Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide an inside account with never-before-told stories of the defining issue of Donald Trump's presidency: his steadfast opposition to immigration to the US.
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F**k No!
The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensations The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, You Do You, and Calm the F**k Down.
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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?
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Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity
We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural home for an increasing proportion of global industry. But how do we make it happen?
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Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag - Waking Up to China’s Challenge
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia?
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The Conversation Yearbook 2019
A little bit of authority goes a long way in an opinionated world. Here Australia's most erudite thinkers share expert views on the issues that shaped the nation in 2019. The Conversation Yearbook has become an annual bestselling...
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Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents.
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The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals.
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How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Digital Age
John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. ...
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Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech
From acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst, a penetrating indictment of how today's biggest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, and our minds.
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Waters of the World
How did we come to have a global climate? What role do the complex interactions of ice, ocean and atmosphere play in sustaining life on Planet Earth? And who are the scientists who figured all these intricate processes out?
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The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback
In this gripping behind-the-scenes account, acclaimed journalist Aaron Patrick examines how the Coalition came back from the brink, and what that means for Australia.
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Little Weirds
An essay collection from actress and stand-up comedian, Jenny Slate
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The Saturday Portraits
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of The Hate Race and Foreign Soil.
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Nothing New: A History of Second-hand
Robyn Annear lends her signature wit to this fantastic history of second-hand: from the origins of the op shop to eBay, up-cycling and how new became normal.
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Beauty
In Beauty Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many
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The Witches Are Coming
The firebrand New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Shrill - now a Hulu series starring Aidy Bryant - provides a brilliant and incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered not just...
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Life: Selected Writings
Essays, speeches and collective musings from one of Australia's greatest minds. From climate change to art, books, and the environment, there is something here for every Flannery fan.
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The Man in the Red Coat
Britain's most passionate Francophile takes us on a wonderfully rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi
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Mallee Country: Land, People, History
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present
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Remarkable Trees
Artists and botanists alike have been inspired by trees for centuries, and a varied and beautiful range of images from the unrivalled archive at Kew illustrate the stories, to create this enlightening and enchanting book.
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
This ninth edition of The Best Australian Science Writing showcases the most powerful, colourful, insightful and brilliant news, feature, essay and poetry writing from Australian writers and scientists. It roams the length and...
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
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Incidental Inventions
This is a must for all Ferrante fans.
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Curious: Life hacks through maths
Fast and fun maths solutions to everyday dilemmas by Lily Serna, mathematician and star of Catalyst, and Letters and Numbers.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight.
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Catch and Kill
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. ...
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The Sky Atlas
A visual history of how mankind has studied the sky throughout history, featuring some of the most stunning images ever created.
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The Story of Gardening
A fully updated and revised edition of a gardening classic.
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Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World
A collection of history's greatest speeches, with commentary from internationally bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The Responsible Globalist
An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism.
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She Said
From the Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse comes the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement.
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The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat
A surprising and absorbing new work of scientific, historical and environmental investigation, featuring one of Australia's most misunderstood native animals, the long-haired rat.
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The Devil’s Grip
From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District's prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil's...
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Following in the footsteps of American luminaries such as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politics from one of the brightest young...
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Bird Bonds
An absorbing, compelling insight into the unique and extraordinary lives of Australian native birds by a leading expert in the field.
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Three Women
All Lina ever wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and...
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How to Be an Antiracist
A radical new way to think about racism and an inspiring treatise for what to do about it from the Winner of the National Book Award 2016 and founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center.
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society - beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
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Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
A New York Times bestselling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.
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On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers
In this vibrant, rich and personal essay on acclaimed author Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in writing that is powerful and exhilarating
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Coventry
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart...
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
Eagerly awaited, must-read new science book from the UK's bestselling non-fiction writer. Bryson is the prize-winning author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Road to Little Dribbling
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We Are Displaced
Five years on from the publication of her internationally bestselling memoir, We Are Displaced presents true stories of the refugee experience interwoven with Malala's own story of her displacement.
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The Planets
The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before. A companion book to the highly anticipated BBC...
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Scatterbrain
In this mind-bending book, award-winning neuroscientist Henning Beck explains why perfectionism is pointless - and argues that mistakes, missteps and flaws are the keys to success.
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Defeating the Ministers of Death
The compelling story of vaccination.
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Finding the Heart of the Nation
An important and unique book that takes us into the lives of Indigenous people today, and offers constructive ideas about how we can live together, moving beyond the injustices of the past.
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Will AI Replace Us?
This well-balanced, comprehensive and engaging review surveys the development of Artificial Intelligence over the last sixty years and highlights the likely transformative effects of AI on society over the next few decades.
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The Europeans
A dazzling, highly original account of three remarkable individuals and their part in creating the matchless new culture of 19th-century Europe.
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Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life
488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Applying truth and wit to modern problems. An antidote to stupidity.
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Raising Readers: How to Nurture a Child’s Love of Books
When can you start reading to your child? How do you find that special book to inspire a reluctant reader? How can you tell if a book is age appropriate? What can you do to keep your tween reading into their adolescent years?...
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Dorodango: The Japanese Art of Making Mud Balls
Alongside beautiful photographs of the process, master dorodango maker Bruce Gardner covers every aspect of making and finishing your dorodango, accompanied by inspiring words on the mindful qualities of this earthy activity.
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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
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White
Combining personal reflection and social observation, White is the first work of nonfiction work from Bret Easton Ellis, the bestselling author of American Psycho.
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We Refugees
They are our neighbours, ancestors, friends; not a tide or a crisis but a test of our imagination. The stories, essays and poetry in this beautiful anthology bridge cultural divides to offer hope and healing. A fundraiser for the...
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Say Hello
A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly.
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Fallen
The dramatic story of the trial of 'God's treasurer' for child sex abuse, and the conviction that sent ripples around the world.
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On Fire
In her most galvanising book yet, Naomi Klein makes the case for a radical New Deal.
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The Outlaw Ocean
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.
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Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
From the author of multi-million bestseller, The God Delusion, an exciting, accessible argument for atheism, written for a new generation.
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Permanent Record
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try...
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Teen Brain
From Australia's most trusted non-fiction researcher and author comes the book that every parent needs to read.
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Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair - Listening to the Nation
In this vivid, grounded essay, Rebecca Huntley looks at the state of the nation and asks: what does social-democratic Australia want, and why?
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Legacy
A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019. A gripping story forensically reported, Say Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and the way societies mend - or don't - after long and...
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
Stunning and much anticipated follow up to the acclaimed, prize-winning, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.
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The Girls
A memoir of enormous power: of family, loss, and sexuality which recalls Kate Holden, Fiona Wright or Sarah Krasnostein.
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When You’re Not OK: A Toolkit for Tough Times
When You're Not OK is an emotional first-aid kit for your body, mind, and soul, written by someone who's been there too.
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#MeToo: Stories from the Australian movement
Movement. Moment. Backlash. Tide. Presenting the first anthology charting the #MeToo movement in Australia full of real women's stories and timely analysis.
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The Beauty of Everyday Things
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to...
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The History of Philosophy
The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions.
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The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations
Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art.
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
The Female Monster is alive and well in the pop-cultural imagination. What does she tell us about ourselves and how we live today?Share this
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2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration
Based on Damon Gameau's 2019 documentary, 2040, 2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration is a practical manual that provides you and your family with the tools and inspiration to live a more sustainable life - NOW.
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The Mosquito
The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.
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Bolder
Bestselling author of In Praise of Slow investigates one of the last taboos - ageing - and the 'age inappropriate' revolution that is taking place across the globe.
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Salt: Selected Stories and Essays
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.
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Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love
The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day.
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Beyond the Bump
Beyond the Bump is a thoughtful and practical guide that aims to help new mums feel calm, confident and equipped to face the physical, emotional and mental hurdles they may encounter post birth.
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First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks
For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people
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Growing Up Queer in Australia
Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity.
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Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life
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Influenza
Dr Jeremy Brown, America's highest medical authority on emergency care research, offers Australians some enlightening, entertaining and unnerving advice on the flu.
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Three Birds Renovations
Australia's most fabulous renovators reveal their secrets! The Three Birds are best friends and busy mums who ditched their corporate careers to renovate houses, now with massive instagram and youtube followings for their design...
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No Worries
From the bestselling author of Change Your Thinking comes No Worries - the clear, compassionate and practical guide to understanding and managing anxiety and worry.
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
The enthralling true story of the curious life and career of Maud West, one of Britain's first and best-known female detectives.
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America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
A major biography by New York Times bestselling historian Steven M. Gillon.
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The Stonewall Reader
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it.
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I Like to Watch
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
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A Spanner in the Works
From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasure.
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Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
Are the Chinese secret services now the most powerful in the world? After a long investigation into Beijing's intelligence services and the backrooms of international politics, journalist Roger Faligot may have found the answer.
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Portraits Destroyed: Power, Ego and History’s Vandals
Join respected art historian Dr Julie Cotter as she journeys through eras, continents and regimes to examine the extraordinary stories of Portraits Destroyed.
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Winning for Women: A Personal Story
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Perfect Motion
Since our first ancestor rose up to place one foot in front of another, our desire to walk has produced fundamental changes in our bodies and minds.
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The Art of Growing Up
A manifesto on all aspects of growing up - from parenting and education to the role of literature and imagination - by one of Australia's most passionate and experienced educators and bestselling authors.
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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator `A masterful performance' Sunday Times `By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year
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A Wunch of Bankers
For Daniel Ziffer and his Australia-wide audience, it was a complicated, galling, and gasp-inducing year at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
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The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia
A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to his Costa Book of the Year Award-winning The Shock of the Fall.
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Digital Cash
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators, from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. --Provided by publisher.
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Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age
Uncovering the science behind how and why we age.
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Dope World: Adventures in Drug Lands
a definitive and global exploration into the war on drugs and the effect it's having on humanity
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Plots and Prayers
In an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story of eight days of madness that cast a Liberal prime minister and his party into the outer darkness of Australian politics.
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See What You Made Me Do
Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence.
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The New Manhood: Love, Freedom, Spirit and the New Masculinity
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The Battle of Long Tan: The Company Commanders Story
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR.
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My Friend Anna
How does it feel to be betrayed by your closest friend? A close friend who turns out to be the most prolific grifter in New York City...
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Our Mob Served
Our Mob Served presents a moving and little-known history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander war time and defence service, told through the vivid oral histories and treasured family images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
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Syria’s Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope
The extraordinary story of how the besieged and half-starved Syrian town of Darayya is drawing hope and inspiration from its secret underground library.
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Australia’s Original Languages: An Introduction
An introduction to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language reflects...
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This is Not a Drill
It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about climate change. Our last chance to save the world as we know it.
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Breaking Badly
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Waste Not Everyday
All the tips, tricks and motivation you need to transition to a less wasteful life.
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Falter
The most urgent call-to-arms yet for us to solve climate change, from one of the world's most influential and respected environmental advocates
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto
When today's immigrants are asked, `Why are you here?', they can justly respond, `We are here because you were there.' And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and...
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Range
Range is the ground-breaking and exhilarating exploration into how to be successful in the 21st Century, from David Epstein the acclaimed author of The Sports Gene.
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Clearing the Air
Clearing the Air is essential reading for anyone who cares about the air they breathe. And this much becomes clear: in the fight against air pollution, we all have a part to play. The fightback has begun.
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Australia Day
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
From a New York Timesbest-selling writer, psychotherapist, and advice columnist, a brilliant and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are in crisis (and so is she) --
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Unconditional Love
A raw and powerful memoir of motherhood, autism and filmmaking by Australian director, Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Wild and Crazy Guys
The definitive account of the kings of comedy who ruled eighties Hollywood.
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Becoming
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
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The End of Forgetting
Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our younger selves have been captured and preserved online. But what happens, Kate Eichhorn asks, when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind? Rather than a childhood cut short by a...
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Fake
A powerful, richly layered investigative story for our times, drawing on the personal stories of the author and other women who have been drawn into relationships based on duplicity and false hope.
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Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself
An important exploration of a shocking and previously unacknowledged chapter in German history.
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Sundowner of the Skies:
In October 1930 Oscar Garden, a young man aged just 27 years old walked into an aerodrome in the South of England, climbing into the open cockpit of a second hand Gypsy Moth aeroplane he decided to fly to Australia. At the time he...
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Blackout
Blackout charts the disintegration of Australia's energy security, calls out what is holding us back, and plots the way for a brighter future.
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Paper Emperors
Reveals who owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, this book explains how Australia's media system came to be...
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Mama’s Boy: A Memoir
A candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up Mormon in Texas from an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and leading spokesperson for LGBTQ rights.
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Walks in the Wild
Learn to find your way around the woods without a compass or GPS, which berries and mushrooms are good to eat, how to read animal tracks and what it's like to spend a night alone in a forest.Walks in the Wild has everything you...
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Alice to Prague
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Growing Up African in Australia
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind
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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
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Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics
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Rebel Women Who Changed Australia
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Mother: An Unconventional History
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Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
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The Lost Art of Scripture
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Chanel’s Riviera: Peace and War on the Cote d'Azur
Bestselling social historian Anne de Courcy reveals the glamour and grit of the Second World War on the French Riviera
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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
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The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems
A call for a radical restructuring of the relationship between black and white Australia.
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A Better Death
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Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs
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The Road Before Me Weeps
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No Walls And The Recurring Dream: A Memoir
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Our work needs no more martyrs. You can fight these fights and live.
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Nora Heysen: A Portrait
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Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
Turns the common perception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Alice Gorman's captivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanning some 60 years takes the reader on a journey which...
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This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice-and ideas for how each of us can contribute.
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People’s Republic of Walmart
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.
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Extraordinary Insects
A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning.
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So Much Longing in So Little Space
Karl Ove Knausgaard on the artist Edvard Munch, and how we experience the world through art
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Last Days at Hot Slit
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.
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Anxious Kids: How Children Can Turn Their Anxiety into Resilience
Anxious Kids offers parents a new perspective on their children's anxiety, encouraging them to view each episode as an opportunity to empower their kids with the skills to manage anxiety, and thrive.
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The Human Network: How We’re Connected and Why It Matters
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The Moment of Lift
A passionate argument for female empowerment by Melinda Gates, one of the world's most admired and respected women.
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Raising Girls in the Twenty-First Century
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The War for Kindness
At the forefront of empathy research, Dr. Jamil Zaki has made an important discovery: empathy is flexible.
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Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs history
Why everything you think you know about Australia's Vietnam War is wrong
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The Snowy: A History
The Snowy -- A History tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels.
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An Unconventional Wife
The page-turning biography of an Australian woman who refused to bend to the expectations of her husband and her time.
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