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The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today

The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today

Gerard Windsor

In The Tempest-Tossed Church

The Honest History Book

Edited by David Stephens, Alison Broinowski

In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity?

It was no wonder I was glad to be down in Woolloomooloo. The Old Fitzroy reminded me of how Kings Cross used to be.

'Professor Bill Gibson is an outstanding man, a great humanitarian and deserving of this well-researched biography about his exceptional contribution to medicine.' - Professor Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO

In the 1920s and 1930s, Rayner Hoff was the most gifted – and controversial – public sculptor in Australia, best known for the sculptures and friezes that adorn Sydney's Anzac Memorial, including Sacrifice at its centre.

Green Bans, Red Union

Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann

Revised edition of a landmark book Green Bans , Red Union

Kampong Australia

Mathew Radcliffe

The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.

Australia's Welfare Wars: The players, the politics and the ideologies 3rd edition

Philip Mendes

In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars , Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.

Chinese for Advanced Learners

Wang Ping, Mr Chen Yangbin

Ms Colleen McCullough

Several years before she died, Colleen McCullough wrote this unusual and stimulating work of non-fiction exploring a subject close to her heart – the role of water in human history, and how best to harness its power to ensure Australia's future.

The Best of Bob Byrne's Boomer Columns

Beautifully nostalgic Adelaide stories – originally published in Bob Byrne's hugely popular Boomer column in the Adelaide Advertiser – now available in one bumper book.

Valiant for Truth

Mr Peter Brune, Neil McDonald

Following the war he continued reporting and broadcasting, and published The Struggle for Europe , his classic account of the Normandy invasion and its aftermath. He was tragically killed in the crash of the BOAC Comet over Greece in 1954, returning from Australia where he had been covering the Royal Tour.

Mr Richard Fitzpatrick

Killer tales from the deep from an award-winning cinematographer and marine biologist

Sydney Cemeteries

The ultimate handbook for exploring Sydney's cemeteries — from crowded inner-city plots to spacious burial grounds in semi-rural spots.

Independent Minds

Celebrating 100 years of academic excellence and social leadership

Weird Dinosaurs

We're in a golden age of discovery – and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined.

Janet Venn-Brown

The Best Australian Science Writing 2016

Edited by Jo Chandler, foreword by Ms Fiona Stanley

From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it.

A Tear in the Soul

Ms Amanda Webster

'The heartfelt story of a woman's fierce determination to bear witness to the wrongs inflicted upon her childhood friends, purely because of their skin colour. With searingly honest self-reflection, Webster pieces together stories of families and lives brutally ripped apart.' - Leah Kaminsky

Swimming with The Spit

This gorgeous book celebrates not just an illustrious swimming club on one of the most beautiful spots on Sydney Harbour but also the joy to be found in swimming itself. And while there can be few sensations more immediate and invigorating than diving into cool water, it invites us to think about those that have swum before.

Ron Wills, John Golding

The incredible story of singing teacher extraordinaire Mathilde Marchesi who trained more international opera stars than anyone before or since.

The House That Jack Built

This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of our cities and bring about lasting political and legal reform. This is the story of the house that Jack Mundey built.

John Murphy's Evatt: A life 'Bert' Evatt remains a polarising figure – still considered by many in Labor as the man who 'split the party' and by many conservatives as unreliable and dangerous.

Bush Heritage Australia

With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions.

Planting Dreams

'A garden should … be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated. Then it gives it a chance to go a little wild in spots' – Edna Walling, landscape designer

Why the future is workless

Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing.

Up Came a Squatter

Battles with local Aboriginal people, other settlers, Commissioners of Crown Lands and bush-fires, along with droughts, family feuds, multiple trips back to Scotland to find a wife and Black's rise to gentrified excess are all vividly brought to life.

The Tim Carmody Affair

Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Gabrielle Appleby, Andrew Lynch

When Tim Carmody was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland by Premier Campbell Newman in 2014, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months.

Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

Double Diamonds

During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese.

The extraordinary story of how a devoted nun became an equally devoted campaigner for justice – as a successful criminal defence lawyer.

I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism.

Mr Goenawan Mohamad, translated by Jennifer Lindsay

Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia's foremost literary figures and public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays, from 1968 to 2014, demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive and elegant commentary on literature, faith, mythology, politics, history and Indonesian life.

The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all - and even-handed.

Not Just For this Life

Edited by Wendy Guest, Gary Gray

Not Just For This Life Not Just For This Life also includes a foreword by Graham Freudenberg and short introductions by Laurie Oakes, Anita Heiss, Geraldine Doogue, Don Watson, Patricia Hewitt, Nick Whitlam and Tim Soutphommasane where they tell their stories of the period following Gough's death and their experiences with Gough.