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A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busuttil Nishimura

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Category: Food

Family food is generous, unfussy and demonstrates love and care. No matter what busyness the day brings, the act of setting the table and enjoying a simple meal together is comforting and ever-reassuring. Eating simply and seasonally is at the core of Julia Busuttil Nishimura's recipes. Whether it's a c ...Show more

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Untold Resilience by Future Women

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Category: Cultural Studies

We are not the first generation to live through something as seismic and all-encompassing as the coronavirus pandemic, even though it can feel right now like we are. But when it comes to the stories of the wars, financial crises and diseases that have threatened our societies in the past century, most ...Show more

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2020: The Year That Changed Us by The Conversation; Molly Glassey (Contribution by)

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Category: Cultural Studies

In January 2020, Australia went from battling one of its worst-ever bushfire seasons to preparing for COVID-19 to hit its shores. What ensued was crisis: a pandemic, political upheaval, an international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies dwarfed by a world spinning on an a ...Show more

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Northside by Warren Kirk

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Category: Art & Design

From the photographer behind Westography and Suburbia. The past doesn't disappear. It leaves its traces everywhere. - Christos Tsiolkas From West Brunswick to Reservoir, Fitzroy to Hadfield, Warren Kirk turns his keen eye upon the streets, buildings, and inhabitants of Melbourne's northern suburbs, wh ...Show more

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On Getting Off - Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young

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Category: Ideas & Philosophy

The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explores t ...Show more

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One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner

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Category: Memoir & Biography

Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more

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Staying Alive by Kate Gregorevic

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Category: Non-Fiction

By the time we turn 60 most of us will still have one-third of our lives to live. How well we live these years will depend on our health: are we agile, disease free, dependent on medication or require medical assistance? In Staying Alive you'll discover proven scientific details on how you can avoid o ...Show more

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Two Sisters by Ngarta Jinny Bent; Jukuna Mona Chuguna; Pat Lowe; Eirlys Richards

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Category: Memoir & Biography

Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was a time of change. Desert people who had lived with little knowledge of European settlement were now moving onto cattle stations. T ...Show more

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What Is to Be Done: Political Engagement and Saving the Planet by Barry Jones

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Category: Sustainability

A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more

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A Repurposed Life by Ronni Kahn

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Category: Memoir & Biography

'From the founder of OzHarvest, an ebullient, generous memoir with an exhilarating message.' ANNABEL CRABB 'Brimming with energy, altruism and refreshing candour' QUENTIN BRYCE 'The inspiring story of a woman with a big heart who dared to make a difference. This is a must-read book. I couldn't put it ...Show more

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Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi

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Category: Booksellers' Choice Spring Guide

We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more

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Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue

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Category: Memoir & Biography

The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my ch ...Show more

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