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Alphabetical Sydney

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it, North to the south to the east and the west of it. Bats and cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo, This is our town. Let us share it with you.

Making Medicare

Anne-Marie Boxall, James Gillespie

Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that we largely take for granted. But the road there wasn't easy. Making Medicare

How to do a liver transplant

'I loved Kellee Slater's book. And not just because she's a transplant surgeon and I have had a liver transplant. At times I felt like she had been reading my mail!' – Derryn Hinch

The Beethoven Obsession

The Beethoven Obsession tells the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano that shook up the conservative music establishment.

Jackie Dickenson

The Misogyny Factor

L. Bernard Hall

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In the shadow of Gallipoli: The hidden story of Australia in WWI

Robert Bollard

Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. In the Shadow of Gallipoli

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government

Andrew Tink

Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Kel Richards

Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man mystery

Kerry Greenwood

Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

Steel Designers' Handbook 8

Branko E. Gorenc, A. Syam, Ron Tinyou

The Revised 8th Edition of Steel Designers' Handbook

Sustainable Food

Sustainable House , Mobbs turns his attention to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling and disposing food. With his own experiences anchoring the book, Sustainable Food

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

Edited by Elizabeth Finkel

The Best Australian Business Writing 2012

Edited by Andrew Cornell

The Flash of Recognition

As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society

Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals

Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles

Kristyn Harman

Christopher Lee

Ron Sandland, Graham Thompson

Icon in Crisis charts in detail CSIRO's dramatic and successful transformation.

7 Myths about Women and Work

Catherine Fox

What Makes a Good School?

What Makes a Good School?

Jane Caro, Chris Bonnor

What Makes a Good School? will help you to cover all bases.

Children of the Occupation

Walter Hamilton

Australian Lithuanians

Luda Popenhagen

Andrew Dodd

Playground Duty

In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids in Tenterfield in remote NSW

The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

Edited by Stephen Pincock

From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers talented writers the kind of scope that other subjects simply can't match. This dynamic genre of Australian writing has never, until now, been showcased in an anthology. With a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty,

Come the Revolution

Alex Mitchell

In Come the Revolution Come the Revolution lays bare Mitchell's life and loves, his past and politics, with the flair of a born storyteller unafraid to ask hard questions about the world, and himself.

Transit of Venus

"In his new book, Transit of Venus, 1631 to the Present , Dr Nick Lomb — an astronomer at the Sydney Observatpry and the author of the Australian Sky Guide The Bulletin

Peter Corris

The Exotic Rissole

'I put some rissoles in sandwiches for you two. Dig in.' Lynchy grabbed two and handed me one. We bit into them while sipping our SodaStream-manufactured soft drink. A rush came over me as I tasted the spice-free rissole bursting across my taste buds. It was worth the wait.

Australian Poetry Since 1788

Edited by Geoffrey Lehmann, Robert Gray

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The Flight Attendant’s Shoe

Prudence Black

Stiletto heels, miniskirts, bobbed wigs, shiny new technology and exotic locations were all part of the cosmopolitan life style of the Qantas flight hostesses. Today there are over 9000 flight attendants in Australia traversing the skies, all wearing a corporate uniform.

Close to the Edge

Sujatha Fernandes

Bryan Gaensler

The universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270°C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions a billion times brighter than the Sun. A black hole can generate 10 million trillion volts of electricity. And hypergiants are stars 2 billion kilometres across, larger than the orbit of Jupiter. Extreme Cosmos