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Unfinished Business
Price: $32.95 Author: David Love

"Keating was more than halfway towards completing the most sweeping and beneficial set of changes in financial policy attempted by any democracy during the twentieth century." David Love, a veteran economist, sets out to explain Keating's vision and why it is utterly and urgently relevant to the Australia of 2008 and beyond.

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Imagining Paradise
Price: $135.00 Author: Sheila Foster et al

The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester is the subject of this book. This library is a cornerstone of the museum that celebrates and protects the history of photography. The books in the collection capture this photographic history in all its visual beauty. Imagining Paradise is a wonderful convergence of the visual arts and the written word.

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The Art Of The Book
Price: $181.00 Author: Margaret Manion et al

This erudite and comprehensive work looks at the role of the book in medieval worship. Covering French, Italian and Netherlandish works of the fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, each essay explores the use made of these books for public and private worship.

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The Joy Of Reading
Price: $29.95 Author: Charles Van Doren

The fact that this book gives us, specifically, 189 of the world's best authors to meet, is in itself irresistible - why not 190? And, who would have been number 190, or 200? Set out chronologically, all writing and reading genres are represented. It is itself, a joy to behold.

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Man Drought
Price: $24.95 Author: Bernard Salt

Bernard Salt has done the maths - there is a lack of available men in Australia for women in their thirties through to their fifties. He goes on to draw all sorts of conclusions as to the cause and effect of this particular statistic, describing the whole cycle of the men/women ratio in Australia with the quaint "tides of love" moniker. This is but one of the statistics Bernard Salt draws on in this typically entertaining and interesting addition to his list of book titles.

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The Tall Man
Price: $32.95 Author: Chloe Hooper

The "tall man" of the title is Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley of Palm Island. On November 19th 2004 Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer; forty minutes later he was dead. Chloe Hooper follows the trial of Hurley and presents an uncompromising investigation of life for all on Palm Island. She casts a thorough and intelligent eye on this particular moment in our history.

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The Freedom Paradox
Price: $35.00 Author: Clive Hamilton

The author of Affluenza and Growth Fetish turns his attention to the apparent paradox that being truly free is only possible if we commit to a moral life. Hamilton challenges us to understand the implications of our freedom.

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Scattered
Price: $32.95 Author: Malcolm Knox

The drug known as "Ice" first appeared in Australia in the 1990s. Its reach into the community is the subject of this analytical, informative, and ultimately confronting expose.

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Running The War In Iraq
Price: $32.99 Author: Major General Jim Molan

On one level, this is a view of war by one individual; it is a personal war. On another, it is a critique of modern warfare as experienced by a serving officer in the upper echelons of the Australian defence force.

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Melbourne City Of Stories
Price: $39.95 Author: Deborah Tout-Smith and Robyn Annear

There is a permanent exhibition at the Melbourne Museum called The Melbourne Story. This book is the natural adjunct to that exhibition, concentrating on telling the small stories of the town and its people that inform and create the big story of a modern city. It is a glimpse into history through "local" eyes and a reference point for Melburnians walking those same city streets today.

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Tour To Hell
Price: $34.95 Author: David Levell

Imagine surviving your transportation from Ireland and then trying to make sense of your new world that is a penal farm in Parramatta, NSW. If escape comes to mind, then you have to believe you have somewhere to escape to - a misguided belief that led many convicts to undertake incredible journeys resulting in disappointment, being lost in the country, and sometimes death. This book is the story of those convicts� attempts to be anywhere else but where they found themselves.

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Fly
Price: $49.95 Author: Michael Veitch

The image of the airmen of World War II conjures up notions of bravery, danger, adventure, and of course, human mortality. The personal stories of these men are recounted in this book, without concern for their nationhood - Australian, British, German. It is imbued with the author's lifelong fascination with aviation.

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Bye Bye Charlie
Price: $39.95 Author: Corinne Manning

Kew Cottages in Victoria was opened in 1887 as the first and largest specialised institution for people with intellectual disability. Any number of heart wrenching stories unfold between these pages and, regardless of the political or moral arguments about its existence, it comes back to being about boys and girls, men and women.

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On Experience
Price: $19.95 Author: David Malouf

A new series from Melbourne University Press with the caption of "little books on big themes" includes this title from David Malouf. Competent in all formats, Malouf once again writes an insightful and interesting account of the notion of "experience" and imbues it with his always lyrical style. Other books in the series are authored by a diverse range of writers including Barrie Kosky, Blanche D'Alpuget, and Germaine Greer.

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The Seven Basic Plots
Price: $51.00 Author: Christopher Booker

The premise of this book is that there are seven archetypal themes which are present in every form of storytelling, be it books, movies, folktales, or oral histories. Whether it is a Saxon warrior or Stephen Spielberg, we have in fact heard it all before.

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Other Anzacs
Price: $49.95 Author: Peter Rees

Within twelve hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove, the Australian and New Zealand nurses had over five hundred injured to care for on one hospital ship. This is just one of the battlegrounds where these women were shoulder to shoulder with the soldiers yet we know relatively little of their war.

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How to Read a Poem
Price: $27.95 Author: Terry Eagleton

Opening with a comparison between the dying art of literary criticism, thatching, and clog dancing is explanation enough of why this is an interesting book. The notion of reading "sensitively" is attractive in this world of fast-moving techno images with which we seem bombarded on a daily basis. The central theme is that we should linger over the language of books, and, particularly, poetry so that we will both understand the writer's intent and benefit to the fullest from our reading.

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The Scots In Australia
Price: $39.95 Author: Malcolm Prentis

The author sets out to identify the Scot in Australia as much as to tell his/her history. He believes that, unlike many other settlers, the Scottish became almost invisible in this new society, blending Australia within their very core and so are harder to recognise as a discrete ethnic group. Nonetheless, he provides the stories of many Scots who can be found in every facet of Australian historical and contemporary society.

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Australian Classics:50 Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works
Price: $29.95 Author: Jane Gleeson-White

Beginning with Robbery Under Arms and ending with Cloudstreet, this is very much a literary portrait of our country. It reminds us of what it has meant to inhabit this land and how we have responded to its uniqueness.

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The Library at Night
Price: $49.95 Author: Alberto Manguel

Manguel opines that 'no one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed'. For many of us it is in fact different - we know we are going home. This is a rev

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Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing
Price: $32.95 Author: Katherine Ashenburg

Who is to say which is right, but certainly the notion of our custom for daily ablutions appeals far more than practices of old. Tracing the customs for personal cleanliness from Roman times to today provides a quirky and fascinating way for the reader to

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The Pirate's Dilemma
Price: $32.95 Author: Matt Mason

There is little ownership of information now and our cultural life is more and more created and dictated by those who can work the technological landscape to advantage and who can work anywhere - in the mainstream, on the fringes, in business, or from hom

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Under Pressure
Price: $29.95 Author: Carl Honore

Following his 'In Praise of Slow', Honore implores parents to give their children time to grow up. He rallies against the current trend to see parenting as a competition sport thereby refusing to let children have time to be children.

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Mad, Bad and Sad
Price: $65.00 Author: Lisa Appignanesi

The diagnosis of mental disorders in women and the attendant response from the medical profession, or 'mind doctors', is the subject of this erudite and comprehensive study of women and mental health from 1800 to the present day.

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Life In His Hands
Price: $32.95 Author: Susan Wyndham

Charlie Teo, Neurosurgeon, and Aaron McMillan, pianist, met because Aaron was diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumour. Often finding such stories too confronting, I felt compelled to read this story because of the television program I had seen with bot

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Panicology
Price: $32.95 Author: Simon Briscoe & Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Why is it that at a time when human beings are living longer and healthier lives, almost everyone is in a panic about something? The authors look at more than forty causes for anxiety and try to rationalise our collective state of mind.

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Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
Price: $45.00 Author: George Makari

Makari gives a detailed account of the origins of psychoanalyis in Europe and describes in great detail the road taken by Freud and those who followed him.

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50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Should Know
Price: $24.95 Author: Ben Drupe

If you have heard the term 'western philosophy' but have never delved into what it might encapsulate, this book will provide you with the perfect introduction. Amongst the 'ideas' explained are knowledge, consciousness, and identity. Phrases in common parlance, such as justice, ethics, and aesthetics, are also defined in this collection of fifty essays.

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Scared to Death: The Anatomy of a Very Dangerous Phenomenon
Price: $45.00 Author: Christopher Booker & Richard North

The recipe would seem to be: take a scare (for example, salmonella in eggs), start the media on the hunt, have scientists exaggerate the danger, have the governing body feel pressured into responding, and finally wait for it all to be exposed as a complete over-reaction, if not fabrication, of facts. Inevitably leading to enormous economic ramiications, such 'scares' have become quite common-place. The authors, one of whom was involved in one such scenario, set out to analyse this phenomenon.

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The World of the Book
Price: $59.95 Author: Des Cowley and Clare Williamson

Des Cowley is Rare Printed Collections Manager and Clare Williamson is Exhibitions Curator at the State Library of Victoria. Their collaboration on this book is indicative of their individual and collective appreciation for the beauty of the book. It is i

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