Antifragile

How to Live in a World We Don't Understand

Nassim Nicolas Taleb

Allen Lane, PB, 9781846141577

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In his previous book The Black Swan (Penguin. PB. $26.95), Nassim Nicolas Taleb explained the existence of high-impact rare events beyond the realms of normal expectations. In Antifragile, Taleb goes much further. He tells us how to live in a world that is unpredictable and chaotic, and how to thrive during moments of disaster. He argues that many of the greatest breakthroughs in human endeavour come from the trial and error that is part of antifragility. And that some of the best systems we know of, including evolution, have antifragility at their heart. The most successful of us, the most daring, relentless and creative, will take advantage of this disorder and invent new, more powerful opportunities and advantages beyond our expectations.

Australia 1942

In the Shadow of War

Peter Dean (ed)

Cambridge University Press, HB, 9781107032279

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Darwin was bombed. Sydney Harbour was attacked. Australian troops clashed with the enemy to our north. The whole country was mobilised, many fearing invasion. In 1942, for the first time, we were truly in the direct shadow of war. John Curtin labelled this immensely diffi cult, crucial time the ‘battle for Australia’. Sixty years have passed, but that time is far from forgotten and books such as Australia 1942 are essential to the process of analysing and understanding what took place. Editor Peter Dean, director of studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, and a team of eminent military historians – both Japanese and Australian – have created a complex and thorough examination of Australia’s participation in the war throughout 1942, and of our enemy’s intentions.

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Australians Volume 2

Thomas Keneally

Allen & Unwin, HB, 9781742374482

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The second volume of Keneally’s history of Australia covers the years from the 1860s to WWI (‘Eureka to the Diggers’), a period in which Australia pursued glimmering visions: of equity in a promised land, of social experiment and reform, of industrial radicalism and of women’s rights. Keneally writes about immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, artists and hardnosed radicals, politicians and soldiers – all players in the drive towards nationhood and social maturity.

Bad Pharma

How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors & Harm Patients

Ben Goldacre

Fourth Estate, PB, 9780007350742

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In his bestseller Bad Science (HarperCollins. PB. $19.99), scientist and journalist Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. Now, in Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, he exposes a $600-billion industry in which more is spent on marketing than on research and development. This is an industry in which the results of clinical trials of new drugs are massaged, distorted or suppressed, and in which new diseases are invented in order to swell profits. Goldacre writes about doctors being kept in the dark about which drugs are the best for their patients, and about papers, supposedly by respected academics, that are actually ghostwritten by drugs companies. Truly enlightening.

Bedtime Stories

Tales from My 21 Years at RN's Late Night Live

Phillip Adams

ABC Books, PB, 9780733330674

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It’s time to crack open a book, Gladys, and learn a bit more about what you’ve been listening to on LNL for more than 20 years. Phillip Adams takes a look back and behind the scenes, remembering the death threats, a prowling Robert Hughes, ‘eargasms’, a bone-chilling conversation with a murderer, and revelations about politicians, writers and other such creatures. Adams also talks about the show itself, and why he started calling you, his collective listeners, ‘Gladys’ and then ‘Gladys and Poddies’.

The Best Australian Business Writing 2012

Andrew Cornell (ed)

NewSouth, PB, 9781742233628

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Have Baby Boomers been forced back to work since the GFC? Will pre-commitment cards for poker machines coerce the addicted gambler to think before he or she acts? Is airport security a waste of time and money? Good business writing is informative, provocative, funny, even moving. In this first edition of a new annual anthology showcasing the best of Australian business writing, editor Andrew Cornell shows just how good – and how important – writing about business can be. It includes a foreword by Reserve Bank board member John Edwards and contributions by Gideon Haigh, Alan Kohler, Judith Brett, Saul Eslake, George Megalogenis and a host of other writers and commentators.

The Best Australian Essays 2012

Ramona Koval (ed)

Black Inc, PB, 9781863955799

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These annual showcases of the local literary scene are essential purchases for readers who want to keep up to date with what both well-established names and up-and-coming stars are up to. This year, Essays includes pieces by writers including Peter Robb, Helen Garner, Gillian Mears, J M Coetzee and Clive James; Poems offers over 100 works by poets including Les Murray, John Kinsella, Michael Sharkey, Luke Davies, David Brooks and Robert Adamson; and Stories features loads of exciting new names as well as a few familiar ones (Alex Miller, David Astle, Chris Womersley).

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Eureka

The Unfinished Revolution

Peter FitzSimons

William Heinemann, HB, 9781742755250

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In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the fl ag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in the Australian national mythology – Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and most historians concur with Mark Twain’s description of it as ‘a strike for liberty’. FitzSimons investigates whether Eureka was indeed a fledgling nation’s first attempt to assert its independence under colonial rule, or whether it was an instance of rabble-rousing by unruly miners determined not to pay their taxes. In so doing, he gets into the hearts and minds of those on the battlefield and those behind the scenes.

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Flinders

The Man Who Mapped Australia

Rob Mundle

Hachette, HB, 9780733628504

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It must be the year of Matthew Flinders, with two books about the great navigator being released just in time to feature in our catalogue! Here, the author of Bligh: Master Mariner (Hachette. PB. $35) tells the gripping story of the man who named Australia and is often described as the first to chart its coastline. Famous for his meticulous charts and superb navigational skills, Flinders was, as Mundle says, ‘a bloody good sailor’. He battled treacherous conditions in a boat hardly seaworthy, faced the loss of a number of his crewmen and, following a shipwreck on a reef off the Queensland coast, navigated the ship’s cutter over 1000 kilometres back to Sydney to get help. Journalist and competitive yachtsman Mundle has done an excellent job in bringing Flinders’ story into the limelight it deserves, providing a fascinating read in the process.

The Great Degeneration

Niall Ferguson

Allen Lane, PB, 9781846147432

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The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations, anti-social behaviour. But what is the cause? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions – the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail – are degenerating. The four pillars of Western societies – representative government, the free market, the rule of law and civil society – have deteriorated. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy, and while China struggles to move from economic liberalisation to the rule of law, Europeans and Americans alike are frittering away the institutional inheritance of centuries. To arrest the degeneration of the West, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.

The Great Race

David Hill

William Heinemann, PB, 9781742751092

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Having previously written about the First Fleet in 1788 (William Heinemann. PB. $24.95), David Hill has now turned his attention to the mapping of Australia’s coastline and the race between Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin to complete the task. In the years 1802 to 1805, Flinders and Baudin shared a quest to discover if the NSW coast and New Holland’s west coast were separated by sea. Hill also describes the achievements of precursors from Portugal, Holland, England (notably Dampier and Cook) and France (La Pérouse and D’Entrecasteaux). As it turned out, de Freycinet’s 1811 map of the Australian coastline won the race for the French, three years before that of Flinders, who died the day after his map was published in 1814.

Greenwash

Big Brands and Carbon Scams

Guy Pearse

Black Inc, PB, 9781863955751

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How ‘green’ are the big brands and the celebrities endorsing them? This is the central question in Guy Pearse’s highly readable and practical book for consumers who care about the green credentials of the businesses they patronise. ‘Nothing is sacred and no-one is safe: not the Toyota Prius, not the World Wildlife Fund, not Richard Branson, not Oprah, not even Earth Hour’ writes Pearse. For four years, he collected advertising material that claimed certain products and the brands behind them were ‘climate-friendly’. Analysing these advertising campaigns, and the reallife practices and carbon footprints of the celebrities who lend their names and profiles to these products, Pearse asks what impact, if any, they have made on the fight against climate change.

The Hobbit and Philosophy

Gregory Bassham, Eric Bronson (eds)

Blackwell, PB, 9780470405147

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Subtitled ‘For When You’ve Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way’, this philosophical exploration ponders a host of deep questions raised in J R R Tolkien’s timeless tale. Drawing on the writing of Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Nagel among others, it debates important questions such as whether adventures are exciting and potentially lifechanging events; what duties do friends have to one another; and whether mercy should be extended even to those who deserve to die. From Chapter 1 (‘The Adventurous Hobbit’) to Chapter 7 (‘My Precious: Tolkien on the Perils of Possessiveness’) and Chapter 15 (‘The Consolation of Bilbo: Providence and Free Will in Middle-Earth’), this is a book full of wisdom and entertainment.

The Kelly Gang Unmasked

Ian MacFarlane

Oxford University Press, PB, 9780195519662

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Much has been written for and against Ned Kelly. The first books written by retired police naturally did him no favours, but since the first sympathetic title was published in the 1920s, Kelly has generally enjoyed good press. Ian MacFarlane’s The Kelly Gang Unmasked aims to counter that trend by confounding the arguments of ‘pro-Kelly writers’ and seeking to demolish public sympathy for the bushrangers, using a range of sources and the author’s own contributions. Amongst several novel new claims, MacFarlane suggests that Kelly murdered his stepfather George King and was unable to operate the Spencer rifl e he carried at Glenrowan. The book adds a fresh voice to one side of the continuing discussion about the moral territory underlying the Kelly Gang story.

Murdoch's Pirates

Neil Chenoweth

Allen & Unwin, HB, 9781743311806

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Reading like a blockbuster thriller, this investigation by Walkley Award–winning Australian Financial Review journalist Neil Chenoweth focuses on a secret division of News Corp based in Jerusalem that produces smart cards for use by pay TV operators. In this fiercely competitive fi eld, one of the ways to get business is to demonstrate that the smart cards produced by your rivals can be easily pirated – and unless you are very careful, sometimes those pirated versions make their way out into the real world and damage your competitors’ businesses. In Murdoch’s Pirates, Chenoweth describes this arcane world of hackers and pirates, one that is populated by ambitious ex–Scotland Yard men and former French and Israeli secret service agents, and that has been accused of involvement in mysterious deaths, break-ins and wild chases.

The One World School House

Salman Khan

Hodder, PB, 9781444755770

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Online education may have gone mainstream in the form of the Khan Academy, but the academy’s founder, Salman Khan himself, has turned to old-fashioned communications technology – a book, no less – to outline his vision for the future of education. Actually, Khan takes a measured approach that values some aspects of traditional education, including teachers and schools. But, having found his calling after YouTube videos he made when tutoring his cousin and another couple of kids in maths went viral, Khan asks us to think big when it comes to using technology to revolutionise education. He foresees a world in which children (and adults) are able to fulfi l their potential and learn more deeply. This chatty book is at once memoir, meditation and manifesto.

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Philosophy in the Garden

Damon Young

MUP, PB, 9780522857139

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Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his ‘thought tree’? In this book, Australian philosopher Damon Young explores one of literature’s most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens. For some, the garden provided a retreat from workaday labour; for others, solitude’s quiet counsel. For all, it played a philosophical role: giving their ideas a new life. Philosophy in the Garden reveals the profound thoughts discovered in parks, backyards and pot-plants. It does not provide tips for mowing overgrown couch grass, or mulching a dry Japanese maple. Instead, it is a philosophical companion to the garden’s labours and joys.

Politics with Purpose

Lindsay Tanner

Scribe Publications, PB, 9781922070043

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Beginning with his inaugural speech to Parliament in 1993, and concluding with his verdict on Rudd’s dismissal, this series of articles and speeches span the entire political career of the former Federal Member for Melbourne. His first book since Sideshow (Scribe. PB. $22.95) provides both an illuminating look into Lindsay Tanner’s 18 years of political life, and an earnest overview of Australia’s political and social landscape. Ranging from candid insights into the ideological workings of the ALP, to the former Minister for Finance and Deregulation’s views on Australia’s future economic trajectory, Politics with Purpose manages a profound and constructive appraisal of Australia as a complex and multifaceted nation. Given the current state of politics in Canberra, such an appraisal has arguably never been more pertinent.

Sandakan

Paul Ham

William Heinemann, HB, 9781864711400

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In Sandakan, respected journalist and author Paul Ham moves his focus from Hiroshima Nagasaki (HarperCollins. HB. $55) and Kokoda (HarperCollins. PB. $35) to the Japanese jungle camp of Sandakan, North Borneo. With unflinching detail, he describes the unimaginable conditions and torture that the prisoners of war endured, and brings the words of the soldiers and their relatives to life on the page. At the book’s heart is the long unacknowledged story of the Sandakan Death Marches of 1944 and ’45, one of the worst atrocities that occurred in the Pacific theatre. Harrowing yet compelling reading, Sandakan also traces the post-war experience of the POWs’ loved ones as they tried to unravel the fate of those who didn’t return.

Speechless

A Year In My Father's Business

James Button

MUP, PB, 9780522858587

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James Button has politics in the blood. The son of Labor legend Senator John Button, he dabbled in student politics at university, reported on politics as a Fairfax journalist and spent a year writing speeches for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Speechless draws on all of these experiences, offering a behind-the-scenes insight into the workings of the Australian Public Service, as well as a fascinating insight into Rudd’s period in office. Button writes about the art of speechwriting, the substance of our national narrative, the ego of politicians, the power of bureaucrats and the future of the Australian Labor Party. But he also writes about absent fathers, neglected sons and the heartbreak that public office often triggers. It’s those musings – recounted honestly and with clarity – that make Speechless essential reading.

Tales from the Political Trenches

Maxine McKew

MUP, PB, 9780522862218

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Its publisher has marketed this memoir as an essential purchase for ‘those who have followed the fratricidal events of the past few years and are still asking “what the hell happened?’’’, but in many ways this book is more about the personal than the political. Sure, McKew counters the view that Julia Gillard was a reluctant deputy who was forced to move against a chaotic and dysfunctional Kevin Rudd, offering her own, very different, version of events. But the book is as much about McKew herself as it is about how the prime minister got the top job – she writes about losing her mother to cancer; being raised by her grandparents from age five; working as a journalist; winning – and then losing – Bennelong; and finally embarking on a new life in Melbourne.

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Three Crooked Kings

Matthew Condon

UQP, PB, 9780702238918

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In Three Crooked Kings, Terence Murray Lewis, disgraced former Commissioner of Police in Queensland, speaks for the fi rst time about the Fitzgerald Inquiry into Police Corruption in 1987, his sentence for offi cial corruption and his 10 years in prison. Condon spent two years interviewing Lewis and was given unprecedented access to his personal papers, which cover everything from his complete official police diaries, previously confidential police documents and his private prison diaries. Told decade by decade from the 1950s to the present day, the book is a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed= under its own weight.

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Travels with Epicurus

A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age

Daniel Kline

Text Publishers, HB, 9781922079695

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Daniel Kline’s book is an amusing and uplifting meditation on fi nding the pleasures of old age and the Epicurean way of living. When the philosopher and septuagenarian goes to the dentist for a check-up, he is informed that a section of his lower teeth must be removed and replaced with either a denture plate or implants. The implants would require frequent trips to the dentist, a lot of money and a lot of pain; the denture plate would be undeniably ageing. Klein asks himself whether it is better to a spend a precious year trying to extend the prime of his life, or to live an authentic old age, toothless grin and all. To arrive at an answer, he travels to a place where people seem to know the secret to a long, happy and healthy life – Greece.

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Uncommon Soldier

Brave, Compassionate & Tough, The Making of Australia's Modern Diggers

Chris Masters

Allen & Unwin, HB, 9781741759716

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Moving away from our nation’s ongoing fascination with the Anzac story, Masters looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier – war fi ghter, peacekeeper, street-level diplomat and aid worker. He discusses how they are selected, how they are led, and how they are transformed from civilians to disciplined professional soldiers. And in asking if they are unique, he examines what it is that allows these young Australians to lend moral authority to communities teetering on the precipice of violence in places such as Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Well May We Say

The Speeches That Made Australia

Sally Warhaft (ed)

Black Inc, PB, 9781863952774

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From Robert Menzies’ famous 1942 speech on ‘The Forgotten People’, to Australian Rules football coach John Kennedy’s stirring ‘Fight for the ball’ address to his players on Grand Final Day 1975, Well May We Say shows that the mood, character and history of Australia and its people can be defi ned by its oratory. It reminds us, too, of the power of a single voice to move and delight, to persuade and inspire. This definitive collection includes 124 speeches by Menzies, Keating, Alfred Deakin, Gough Whitlam, Robin Boyd, Miles Franklin, Ben Chifley, Michael Kirby and many more.

The Words That Made Australia

Chris Feik, Robert Manne (eds)

Black Inc, PB, 9781863955782

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Drawn from books, journals, newspaper articles and speeches, the essays in this collection are about Australia – what it has been, what it is, and what it can be. In it, historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries from the Federation era to the present day tell a story of national selfdiscovery (indeed, the book is sub-titled ‘How a nation came to know itself’). It includes A A Phillips on the Cultural Cringe, Russel Ward on the Australian Legend, Robin Boyd on the Australian Ugliness, Donald Horne on the Lucky Country, WEH Stanner on the Great Australian Silence and Miriam Dixson on the Real Matilda among its 30 entries.

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The Australian Moment

George Megalogenis

Viking, PB, 9780670075218

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One of our most respected political and economic writers reviews the key events since the 1970s that have forged institutional and political leadership and a populace that is more farsighted than its politicians.

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo

Scribe Publications, PB, 9781921844638

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This landmark work of narrative nonfiction tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.

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The Best Australian Political Cartoons 2012

Russ Radcliffe (ed)

Scribe Publications, PB, 9781922070104

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The year in politics as seen by Australia’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.

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French Children Don't Throw Food

Pamela Druckerman

Black Swan, PB, 9780552779173

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Really? According to Druckerman, the ‘easy, calm authority’ of French parents results in wellbehaved kids.

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Gaysia

Adventures in the Queer East

Benjamin Law

Black Inc, PB, 9781863955768

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Curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia, the author of The Family Law (Black Inc. PB. $22.95) sets off to meet and write about his fellow ‘Gaysians’.

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Left Turn

Antony Lowenstein, Jeff Sparrow (eds

MUP, PB, 9780522861433

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In this series of essays, Australian writers and thinkers who openly identify with the Left explore why they do so.

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Moranthology

Caitlin Moran

Ebury Press, PB, 9780091949037

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Here, the outspoken feminist writer discusses everything from going to a sex club with Lady Gaga to getting drunk with Kylie, sniffing Sherlock Holmes’s pillow at 221b Baker Street, writing Amy Winehouse’s obituary and being snubbed at a garden party by David Cameron.

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Mullahs Without Mercy

How to Stop Iran's First Nuclear Strike

Geoffrey Robertson

Vintage, PB, 9781742758213

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Though acknowledging (and here exposing) Iran’s crimes against prisoners and dissidents, Robertson argues that the US has no legal right to attack it, despite what Israel – hypocritically hiding its own nuclear arsenal – demands.

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A New History of Western Philosophy

Anthony Kenny

Oxford University Press, PB, 9780199656493

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Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world, revealing the origins of many modern ideas and issues.

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The Office

A Hardworking History

Gideon Haigh

Miegunyah Press, PB, 9780522855562

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Haigh traces the institution of the office from its origins among merchants and monks to the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity.

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The People Smuggler

The True Story of One Man's Journey: Ali al Jenabi

Robin de Crespigny

Viking, PB, 9780670076550

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This timely story of daily heroism brings to life the forces that drive so many people to put their lives in unscrupulous hands.

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After the Future

Tim Flannery

Black Inc, PB, 9781863955829

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In a passionate essay, Flannery argues that Australia is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions that threaten to leave our national parks as ‘marsupial ghost towns’.

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Religion for Atheists

Alain de Botton

Penguin, PB, 9780241964057

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Non-believer Alain de Botton rejects the supernatural claims of religion, but points out just how many good ideas religions have about how we should live.

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Sinning Across Spain

A Walker's Journey From Granada to Galicia

Ailsa Piper

Victory, PB, 9780522861396

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Piper celebrates the mysteries of faith, the possibilities for connection and the simple act of setting down one foot after another on her 1300km solo pilgrims’ walk from Granada to Galicia.

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Touch the Black

The Life & Death of Squizzy Taylor

Chris Grierson

Hunter Publishing, PB, 9780980863963

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In razor-sharp prose touched with poetry, Grierson uses the voices of the characters involved to brilliantly re-create the events that marked the rise and ultimate fall of one of Australia’s most notorious criminals, Squizzy Taylor.

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Vagina

Naomi Wolf

Virago, PB, 9781844086887

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Feminist writer and critic Wolf investigates the cultural lineage of the ‘dark continent’ of female sexuality in her usual thoughtprovoking manner.

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Whackademia

An Insider's Account of the Troubled University

Richard Hil

NewSouth, PB, 9781742232911

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Richard Hil lifts the lid on an Australian higher education ystem that’s corporatised beyond recognition, steeped in bureaucracy and dominated by marketing and PR imperatives rather than intellectual pursuit.

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Why Nations Fail

The Origins of Power, Prosperity & Poverty

Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson

Profile Books, PB, 9781846686108

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A provocative new theory of political economy explaining why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity.