Non-fiction books 2018

A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing 43 Students
The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up
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Educated
An extraordinary memoir about a woman's discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.
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The Social Leap: how and why humans connect
Our chimpish ancestors were superbly adapted to a life of leaping through the trees. To survive on the savannah, they had to make a social leap - a change that drives us still today.
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Craftfulness
An engaging, friendly and inspiring celebration of all things creativity and craft, while emphasising the huge mental benefits of making things with your hands.
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Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks
Ancient Skies brings the belief systems of the classical world to shining life.
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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
This absorbing, heartfelt work tells the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century bohemian life of Paris.
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Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
One hundred years after women were first granted the vote, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson celebrates how far we have come on the road to equality, and calls on women and men alike to continue the fight. ...
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Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia’s History
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The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing.
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Heart: A History
A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart, seamlessly combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving personal story
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Places We Swim: Exploring Australia’s Best Beaches, Pools, Waterfalls, Lakes, Hot Springs and Gorges
This beautiful photographic and curated travel guide celebrates Australia's long-standing connection to water
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Crossing The Line: How Australian Cricket Lost its Way
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Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss - The Inner Life in the Digital Age
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The White Darkness
By the Sunday Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with colour photographs
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By Sea & Stars: The Story of the First Fleet
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet.
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Australia - What Happened?
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Going Postal: More Than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’
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Beastie Boys Book
A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself - by band members AD-ROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante,...
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Inadvertent
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard
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My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches
David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and...
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers.
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Adam Spencer’s Top 100
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The Dinosaur Artist
New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Neither a memoir nor an academic study but a deeply personal and meticulously researched rallying cry and required reading for us all.
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Close to Home: Selected Writings
This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at her best - an irresistible delight for...
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Seize the Fire: Three Speeches
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Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books.
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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
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Inside Story: The First Ten Years
In this collection published to mark the 10th anniversary of the highly regarded online publication Inside Story, leading thinkers and cultural critics navigate the key issues of the turbulent years that have marked Australian and...
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2018
This popular yearly anthology gives a snapshot of the very best science writing Australia has to offer, including everything from the most esoteric philosophical questions about ourselves and the universe, through to practical...
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I Think, Therefore I Draw
The great philosophers live among us, and they've got some great punchlines
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Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality
A compelling, moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia. Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots...
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Through the Night: Dispatches from Uranus
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For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross is the highest award given to members of the Commonwealth military forces for acts of extreme bravery in battle. There is no greater honour, award or accolade. For Valour tells the fascinating story of the 100...
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The Women’s Atlas
A groundbreaking book of infographics, this completely updated and redesigned new edition of Joni Seager's award-winning feminist atlas examines the status of women worldwide - the advances they have made and the distances...
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The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War
From the heart of the cold war to the current hostilities between Russia and the West, this is the definitive account of the events that led to the Skripal poisoning
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Rise & Resist: How to Change the World
Takes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. Crossing the globe, Clare Press meets...
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The Mother of All Jobs: How to Have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish)
The Mother of All Jobs is a funny, heart-breaking and completely realistic take on why combining a big job and small children breaks you, why everyone lies about it, and ultimately how you can be happy if you extract the knowledge...
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The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania
Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. It manages to be both a wild ride and...
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Trigger Warnings
Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be.
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The Land Before Avocado
The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come.
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God is Good for You: A defence of Christianity in troubled times
At a time of crisis for Christianity in the West, God is Good for You shows just why we need faith in our world.
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The World Was Whole
The follow-up to Fiona Wright's essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance - winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction, shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Award for...
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Australia: The Vatican Museum’s Indigenous Collection
From the ancient Etruscans and Romans, to the Renaissance masters of Michelangelo and Raphael, the Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the history of humanity through art. The Indigenous Australian collection is a little known...
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The Barefoot Investor for Families
The new book from Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor.
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Why We Sleep
The phenomenal bestseller that's starting a sleep revolution, now in paperback.
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Hoodwinked
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous...
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Roar: The stories behind AFLW - a movement bigger than sport
A celebration of the wonderful characters of the AFLW and the remarkable success of the new Women's League.
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Call Them by Their True Names
An essential new collection of essays from the bestselling phenomenon Rebecca Solnit calling for reflection and context, activism and hope.
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The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
A playfully illustrated critical journey through the Coen brothers' filmography
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Dare to Lead
Research professor and TED talk phenomenon Dr Brené Brown reveals how to choose courage over comfort, so we can step up, make a difference and dare to lead.
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Boys Will be Boys
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The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
A team of distinguished and internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights into the maps they love, the maps they use and the maps that set them dreaming.
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Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma
A powerful new parenting book that gives flustered parents the exact words to use to solve any sticky parenting situation!
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Rage Becomes Her
A conversation-shifting book urging 21st-century women to understand their anger, embrace its power, and use it as a tool for positive change
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.
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The Colossus of New York
In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will...
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Rocket Men
Fifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. This book tells the inside story of that epic journey.
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Beyond Weird
An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, this book addresses the question that most others fail to ask: what does quantum mechanics actually mean?
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Break-up Boss
Break-ups suck but you don't have to suck at break-ups.
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Europe: A Natural History
About 100 million years ago, the interaction of three continents-Asia, North America and Africa-formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the Europe of today, a place of exceptional diversity, rapid change and high...
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Silent Invasion
In 2008 Clive Hamilton was at Parliament House in Canberra when the Beijing Olympic torch relay passed through. He watched in bewilderment as a small pro-Tibet protest was overrun by thousands of angry Chinese students. Where did...
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The Big Four
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Sundays in Paris
Author Yasmin Zeinab shares with readers an insight into Paris' growing specialty coffee culture and brunch scene, as well as highlighting the best museums, gardens, shops and markets. Now you too can experience the best of Paris...
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Heidegger and the Jews: The Black Notebooks
Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has served to reignite...
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Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy
What is the true meaning of happiness? Lynne Segal explores the radical potential of being together
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
What do we really need to know in today's world? In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment
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On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers
With tenderness and insight, Ceridwen Dovey draws on personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner's work - how his books 'do theory' on themselves - while also tracing the intellectual heritage that has been passed from...
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning writer and historian.
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Creativity Crisis: Toward a Post-Constructivist Educational Future
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The Year Everything Changed: 2001
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On Michael Jackson
Pulitzer Prize-winner Margo Jefferson takes on the legend and legacy of the King of Pop.
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Deep Time Dreaming
'People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were...
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Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
A vivid, heartbreaking portrait of the fate that so many African countries suffered after independence.
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The Suitcase Baby
SYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals its grisly contents - and from there, an extraordinary story unfolds.
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Axiomatic
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the traumas we inherit.
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Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up
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Dunera Lives: A Visual History
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Balancing Acts: Women in Sport - Essays on Power, Performance, Bodies and Love
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Korea: Where the American Century Began
The Korean peninsula has had a troubled history but nothing quite compares with the tragedy of its American-inspired division in the twentieth century. Korea tells the story of the peninsula with compassion for the people of the...
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The Water Will Come
A deeply reported look at how water is pouring into our cities via the global crisis of rising sea levels
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Couchsurfing in Iran
A modern-day glimpse into the surprising reality of life in Iran.
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Waste Not: Make a Big Difference by Throwing Away Less
Waste Not is your practical guide to start tackling waste at your own pace.
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A Zero Waste Life
Want to make a change but don't know where to start? The practical thirty-day guide to radically reducing your waste by 80%, from waste warrior Anita Vandyke.
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Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society
A courageous and passionately argued treatise on how we harness the power of the new era to create a stronger, fairer society.
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Welcome to Country
A completely new and inclusive guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands
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The Hope Circuit
One of the most important psychologists alive today tells the story of the transformation of modern psychology through the lens of his own career and change of heart.
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Woo’s Wonderful World of Maths
Eddie Woo is on a mission: to show us that maths is the language of the universe.
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Dominion: A History of England Volume V
The fifth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed and bestselling six-volume History of England.
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Siege: Inside the Lindt Cafe
The powerful and uncompromising story of what happened inside the Lindt Cafe and why the police response went so tragically wrong
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society - a force set to...
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Power of the Pedal: The Story of Australian Cycling
In Power of the Pedal, cycling journalist Rupert Guinness reveals 200 years of the bike in Australia, covering not only its place in Australian everyday life but also the big races, here and abroad. Along the way, read about...
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Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader - Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman
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Catching Thunder: The True Story of the World’s Longest Sea Chase
Poachers, kingpins and the longest chase in maritime history: A desperate race to save our planet's oceans.
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On Patrick White: Writers on Writers
In this passionate and electrifying short book, Christos Tsiolkas writes about his year spent reading Patrick White, of his ‘discovery and rediscovery of White as a writer.' The result is a vivid introduction to and...
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
A timely and ground-breaking collection of essays and poems about race in America from some of its most unique and powerful voices
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The Honey Factory: Inside the Ingenious World of Bees
An insightful look inside the life of a hive and the bees that make it a home.
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Brain Rules for Ageing Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp?
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Mr Guilfoyle’s Shakespearian Botany
William Guilfoyle, credited as the architect of Melbourne's Royal Botanic gardens, was an eminent landscape designer, botanist and writer. Here are his collected writings on the dozens of plants, fruits and flowers William...
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On Borrowed Time
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual.
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Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence
This ground-breaking new book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice.
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The Edge of Memory
In today's society it is generally the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend - after all, human memory is...
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The Templars
The remarkable story of the Knights Templar - the wealthiest, most powerful and most secretive of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era.
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The Doctor’s Diet
Australian doctor and star of ABC TV's Ask the Doctor presents a clear path to good health with his simple and effective eating plan and recipes.
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Captured Lives
Captured Lives peers behind the barbed wire veil that was drawn around people-both civilian internees and prisoners of war-deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars.
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The Women’s Brain Book
For women, understanding how the brain works during the key stages of life - in utero, childhood, puberty and adolescence, pregnancy and motherhood, menopause and old age - is essential to their health. Dr Sarah McKay is a...
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
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The Football Solution
In a characteristically sweeping and entertaining story, George Megalogenis reveals how football has been shaped by the nation that invented it and how the game we love, in turn, might help resolve Australia's political impasse.
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives.
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Blue Lake
I'm here already, in the bleak, awful hour on Dudley Flats in which the final dereliction of Elsie Williams will come to pass. I'm beginning with it, so you won't be under any illusion as to how it ends.
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RetroSuburbia: the downshifter’s guide to a resilient future
This 592 page manual shows how Australians can downshift and retrofit their homes, gardens, communities and, above all, themselves to be more self-organised, sustainable and resilient into an uncertain future. It promises a...
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Romance Was Born
The fully illustrated story of one of the most successful Australian fashion houses of the last 15 years. Romance Was Born collections are lavish, larger than life, iconic and iconaclastic, and this gorgeous book is a celebration...
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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
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A Life Less Stressed: The Five Pillars of Health and Wellness
A holistic guide to the stresses that wear us down and the changes we can make to lead happier, healthier, and more resilient lives.
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The Motivation Hoax: A Smart Person’s Guide to Inspirational Nonsense
Everywhere you look - on posters, in offices, on social media - there's a motivational quote to greet you. Dreams can come true! Happiness is a journey! Think positive! You can do anything! But how many of these are accurate? How...
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Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future
Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. Indigenous recognition and a new push for a republic await action.
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
A landmark work of contemporary history and a wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny.
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Stern Justice
While the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War are infamous, as are the atrocities committed by Japan in that conflict, few now remember the trials that prosecuted Japanese personnel for those crimes. Stern Justice...
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
An exploration of the age-old complicity between sky watchers and war fighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
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Skin in the Game: The pleasure and pain of telling true stories
Stella Prize long-listed author Sonya Voumard's Skin in the Game is original, incisive, and hugely entertaining.
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Rocky Road: The incredible true story of the fractured family behind the Darrell Lea chocolate empire
The marvelously strange but true story of the family behind the famous Darrell Lea confectionery company.
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The Future of Everything
We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are across the globe. It could give all of us a better quality of life. Or it could further...
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War on Peace
A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. This is one of the most important books of our...
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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
The newest volume in David Crystal's pentalogy of the English language, focusing on the subtleties of pronunciation.
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Endeavour: The ship and the attitude that changed the world
Centred around Captain James Cook's first South Sea voyages (1768 - 1771) from a historian who leaves no stone unturned to discover the ship and the attitude that shaped the western world.
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The Four Flashpoints: How Asia Goes to War
A timely and authoritative account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world's most combustible region.
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Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
An essential collection of the astute and powerful non-fiction writing of the great Ursula K. LeGuin.
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Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days
Incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories of people living in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives, from one of Poland's finest journalists.
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Monash’s Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world
Peter FitzSimons brings the Allied triumph at the Battle of Le Hamel to life, and tells the magnificent story of the first modern battle as it should be told.
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The Sydney Wars
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians - described as ‘this constant sort of war' by one early colonist - around the greater Sydney region.
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Sunburnt Country
What does climate change in Australia really look like?
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Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Randomistas is a brilliant and entertaining exploration of a hidden but vital foundation of modern life.
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Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism
A collection of essays from the bestselling author and founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates
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Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage
Will you be prepared to take advantage when the revolution comes or will you go down with the rest?
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The Story Of Shit
A wry, erudite and surprising investigation, by an acclaimed Dutch biologist, into this rarely discussed bodily function.
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How to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Conquer your phone addiction in just 30 days, and discover a happier, healthier and more fulfilled you.
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The Inflamed Mind
A radical new approach to depression from the publishers who brought you Michael Mosley's international bestsellers
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Finding Sisu: In search of courage, strength and happiness the Finnish way
Find your sisu: the Finnish concept of resilience, grit, and determination - part memoir, part guidance.
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How We Desire
A genre-busting, thoughtful exploration of sexuality and identity by one of Germany's most admired writers in the vein of Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss and Emily Witt.
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New Power
In this indispensable guide to navigating the 21st century, two visionary thinkers reveal how the nature of power has changed - and how 'new power' is re-shaping the world.
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We’ll Show the World: Expo 88
How did one long and expensive party change a city forever?
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Hannibal’s Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome’s Greatest Enemy
From an internationally acknowledged expert on Hannibal, the first full biography of Rome's enigmatic nemesis in over twenty years, exploring Hannibal's extraordinary character in the context of his legendary success and ultimate...
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