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God's Philosophers
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: James Hannam

We tend to think of the word "science" as synonymous with our times of discovery and change but, of course, it is a discipline that has been undertaken across the centuries. In this book, the author redresses the suggestion that the medieval period was on

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The Candy Machine
Price: AUD 26.95 Author: Tom Feiling

Not his first introduction to Colombia, Tom Feiling nevertheless became fascinated with the nexus between this country and the cocaine business.

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A History of Christianity
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch

The subtitle for this book is "the first three thousand years" which gives an indication of the breadth of the subject matter under scrutiny. As has been suggested in some reviews, it might well be that you dip in and out of this book choosing individual

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What the Dog Saw
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Malcolm Gladwell

The interior life (the author's term) of other people makes for fascinating reading. In this collection of writings from the New Yorker, all that is curious about the human condition is categorised into one of three broad areas – obsessive behaviour, theo

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Bottersnikes and Other Lost Things
Price: AUD 59.99 Author: Juliet Oï¿½Conor

This is a lovely companion volume to The World of the Book. Juliet O'Conor is responsible for the State Library of Victoria's children's literature collection and from this archive she presents a celebration of Australian illustrated children's books. Div

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Outside of a Dog
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Rick Gekoski

Rick Gekoski will be known to many of our patrons as the wonderfully erudite and genuinely humorous man who, on a summer's afternoon at our February festival, regaled us all with tales from his life as a rare-book dealer. In Outside of a Dog, Rick introdu

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The Case for God
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong once again challenges her readers to rediscover their beliefs, be they religiously founded or not, and to open their minds to all possibilities. Her aim with this book is to try to understand and identify “what religion really means”.

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The Idea of Justice
Price: AUD 59.95 Author: Sen Amartya

Nobel laureate Sen Amartya has lived an extraordinary life on several continents and across many august academic institutions. This combination of learning and life experience inform his view of justice and make for a remarkable, thought-provoking, and challenging debate. He constructs a new theory of justice and offers us a fresh perspective on how we view our world.

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The Life and Death of Democracy
Price: AUD 49.99 Author: John Keane

As well as a complete exploration of the history of democracy, this book lays out the case for “monitory democracy” – a new form of social order that has seen the rise of extra-parliamentary power-monitoring institutions such as integrity commissions and judicial activism, along with media scrutiny devices such as blogging.

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The Yipping Tiger
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Perminder Sachdev

Professor Sachdev is currently Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the Prince of Wales Hospital and Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales. In The Yipping Tiger he documents sixteen case studies, each with a different neuropsychiatric disorder, and through these helps us begin to appreciate the complexity of the human mind.

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In Search of Civilization
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: John Armstrong

“I want to move from asking the historical question about how people happen to have defined civilization to the philosophical question about how we ought to define it.” John Armstrong brings his gentle intelligence to this book and sets us on a quest for our own notion of civilization.

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The Rite
Price: AUD 29.99 Author: Matt Baglio

Easily dismissed as the stuff of Hollywood movies, exorcism is, the author asserts, a powerful, complex, and fascinating window into the human soul. In 2005, while working as a journalist in Rome, he spent time with a Catholic priest who attended, as a sceptic, a course on exorcism. The next twelve months would change the priest’s mind and provide the author with a path into the subject of exorcism.

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The Lost Art of Sleep
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Michael McGirr

Michael McGirr tells us all about sleep – the wonder of it, the lack of it, the need for it, and the hope for it! His book is full of interesting information and examples of people throughout history and their need, or not, for sleep. But, mostly, Michael has once again brought a touch of whimsy to his subject that engages and delights the reader. His gentle but hilarious style imbues the factual information with an accessibility that means we are taught something but feel we have just been in a thoroughly enjoyable conversation with him. Read this and sleep well!

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Strange Days Indeed
Price: AUD 32.99 Author: Francis Wheen

Francis Wheen turns his attention to the 1970s, the decade he dubs “the age of paranoia”. He revisits the Nixon administration, Harold Wilson’s prime ministership, and how this decade snuffed out the 1960s sense of optimism.

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Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Don Watson

I was fortunate enough to hear Don Watson speak about this new book earlier in the year. As is always the case, I was immediately interested in what he had to say, amused by his anecdotes, and in agreement with his opinion on the way language is being misused. This book, Bendable Learnings, follows on from his bestselling Death Sentence and Weasel Words and is about the way management writers, participants, and leaders have deliberately taken perfectly adequate English and replaced it with words and phrases that serve to obscure facts, deliver minimal information, and ultimately impede clear thinking.

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Cradle to Cradle
Price: AUD 24.95 Author: Michael Braungart and William McDonough

In these times of worthy but preaching texts on environmental imperatives, it is refreshing and encouraging to read of the way we really can change the world in a thoughtful, non-confrontational framework. This noted scientist and architect revisit their ‘cradle to cradle` premise, updating it from when it was first coined as a phrase connoting a new way of living on this planet.

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Ecological Intelligence
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Daniel Goleman

Turning his attention to the ‘green` ethos, this author of the highly acclaimed Emotional Intelligence explains how the way consumers behave, armed with full knowledge of a product`s history, will forever shift the goalposts for businesses. They will truly become accountable for what they do rather than what they say they do.

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Emergency
Price: AUD 34.95 Author: Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss makes an interesting point when he says that the time between 1980 and the end of the century marks the first generation of Americans to whom nothing bad (depression, war, etc) had happened. Further, that this left them startlingly unprepared for the changes that occur when the awful becomes reality.

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Hot Flushes, Cold Science
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Louise Foxcroft

It wasn`t until the eighteenth century that the term “menopause” was included in the vernacular as an official medical entity. This study traces the historical, medical, and environmental myths and realities of this ‘condition`, challenging perceptions as it does so.

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Filthy Lucre
Price: AUD 35.00 Author: Joseph Heath

This Canadian professor of philosophy divides his book into two sections, naming them the right-wing and left-wing fallacies about capitalism. And he asserts that it is precisely because he is not an economist that he can speak so broadly on the subject.

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This Book Does Not Exist
Price: AUD 19.99 Author: Gary Hayden and Michael Picard

Knowing versus Believing; Deciding versus Acting; and Logic versus Truth. Just some of the concepts used to try to pin down what a paradox is and if there can ever be absolutes. It is a book of big ideas, mathematical puzzles, and philosophical dilemmas.

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Liberal Fascism
Price: AUD 28.00 Author: Jonah Goldberg

Opening his book with the proposal that “today’s liberalism is the well-intentioned niece of European fascism” and then embarking on an exploration of this viewpoint has led to Goldberg’s book being a controversial bestseller in the USA. He follows his line of reasoning with a chronological debate, from Mussolini’s Italy to George W. Bush’s America.

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The New Black
Price: AUD 26.95 Author: Darian Leader

Attempting to dispel popular definitions of depressive states, the author argues that we should consider depression as a set of symptoms having their origin in the inner complexities of each individual’s story and their reaction to all that has happened in the course of their lives. If one subscribes to this view, it radically alters the way depression is diagnosed and treated.

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Dead Aid
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Dambisa Moyo

Dambisa Moyo brings her economic studies to bear on the question of the validity of Aid as the west understands it. Her premise is that Aid does not actually work and that simply responding with money, no matter how well intentioned, will not create long-term change or sustainability amongst the poor nations.

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The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price: AUD 39.95 Author: Jill Price

Memories can be good, distressing, important, inconsequential. They are vital to our sense of ourselves yet are sitting somewhere in our brain, available for recall but not at the forefront of our consciousness. Imagine, though, you are Jill Price and your memories (all of them) are playing, unbidden, in your mind all the time and you are constantly, unrelentingly, re-living them. At the same time, you are putting these memories in the context of the world as it was at a particular moment in time, in a particular place, and recalling important happenings as part of your memory. Jill is the only documented case of a medical condition named by her specialists as â€œhyperthymestic syndromeâ€ and her story is remarkable.

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Nuns
Price: AUD 32.95 Author: Silvia Evangelisti

When the choice could come down to marriage or a wall, many women chose the wall; that is, the convent. Many others had no choice at all, being taken into the religious life at the behest of family or because of circumstance. It would be erroneous to think that the life of a nun, at any time in history, is easily categorised. Silvia Evangelisti succeeds in opening up the world of the cloistered women to display their intellectual, artistic, and spiritual lives and all that has flowed from their communities into the world.

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This Book Has Issues
Price: AUD 19.95 Author: Christian Jarrett & Joannah Ginsburg

After working your way through the little tests that are peppered through this book, you'll possibly know yourself a little better. At the very least, you will have a clearer understanding of the basic principles of psychology and you will have enjoyed the trip around the human mind.

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The Duck that Won the Lottery
Price: AUD 29.95 Author: Julian Baggini

Taking one hundred arguments, the author dissects them and shows how they are inherently flawed. He explains the philosophical stances that underpin arguments and tries to help identify the difference between logic and nonsense.

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