Category: Non Fiction
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How Good is Scott Morrison?
The hour brought forth the man but is the man up to the job? A compelling examination of Morrison’s leadership, the decisions he has made and his vision for Australia. Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison’s unlikely rise to the…
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A Season Like No Other: AFL 2020
A Season Like No Other: AFL 2020 explores how the AFL navigated a season that changed day-by-day for fans, for the clubs, and for the players and coaches. The 2020 AFL Season was like no other in the game’s 162-year history. As coronavirus struck down Australia during round one, in March 2020, the AFL was…
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The Believer
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves to deal with the distance between the…
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Return to Uluru
A killing. A hidden history. A story that goes to the heart of the nation. When Mark McKenna set out to write a history of the centre of Australia, he had no idea what he would discover. One event in 1934 – the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokunnuna by white policeman Bill McKinnon,…
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The Husband Poisoner
Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. For readers of compelling history and true crime, from critically acclaimed, award-winning author Tanya Bretherton. After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave that was chillingly calculated. Discontent mixed with despair, greed with callous…
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Values
What do you value? Why is it that often the things we value the most – from frontline nurses to the natural environment to keeping children well fed and educated – seem of little importance to economic markets? In Value(s) , one of the great economic thinkers of our time examines how economic value and…
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White Feminism
A timely and impassioned exploration of how our society has commodified feminism and continues to systemically shut out women of colour. Join the important conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion with this powerful new feminist classic and rousing call for change. Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism,…
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Dead in the Water
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. We want to reset these bio-diversities and the ecologies in our country. We want to see our fish spawning as they once were, our animals coming back down to drink. Fresh quality water out of the Coorong, not…
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical – and accessible – plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in…
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Growing Up Disabled in Australia
A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives – a group whose voices are not heard often enough ‘My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.’‘I didn’t grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.’‘We have all…
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