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Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man mystery

Kerry Greenwood

Steel Designers' Handbook 8

Branko E. Gorenc, A. Syam, Ron Tinyou

The Revised 8th Edition of Steel Designers' Handbook

The Best Australian Business Writing 2012

Edited by Andrew Cornell

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 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

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

Edited by Elizabeth Finkel

Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals

Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles

Kristyn Harman

7 Myths about Women and Work

Catherine Fox

Ron Sandland, Graham Thompson

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

Christopher Lee

Children of the Occupation

Walter Hamilton

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.

Whackademia: An insider's account of the troubled university

Richard Hil

Whackademia exposes a world that stands in stark contrast to the slogans and mottos joyously promoted by our universities. Raising bold questions that go to the heart of Australian higher education, Whackademia is an unsentimental call for a re-enlightened higher education sector that's not only about revenue, efficiencies and corporate profile.

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 Sportsmen of Changi

Kevin Blackburn

The Sportsmen of Changi tells the story everyone forgot – of how sport became a lifeline for POWs after the fall of Singapore, when 50 000 Australian and British soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese. Inspiring and absorbing, it shows that in unimaginable conditions people will do all they can to hold onto what makes them human.

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,

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

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.

Australian Poetry Since 1788

Edited by Geoffrey Lehmann, Robert Gray

Like the book? Join the conversation on Twitter. #auspoetrysince1788

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.

Peter Corris

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

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.

How to write and publish your family story in ten easy steps

Noeline Kyle

After thirty years of giving workshops, talks and seminars to family historians and genealogists Dr Noeline Kyle realised what was missing. What her audience is really crying out for is an easy-to-use reference book to show them how to write and publish their research. How to write and publish your family story in ten easy steps

Gone Viral: The germs that share our lives

Gone Viral: The germs that share our lives

The Australian Voter

Ian McAllister

Darwin Spitfires

Anthony Cooper

Darwin Spitfires tells this little-known story, and in so doing, recovers this important aspect of Australian history.

9781742231600

Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world

Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27?

Gurindji Journey: A Japanese historian in the outback

After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view.

Louise Hawson

When Louise Hawson realised she was a stranger in her own city, she set herself a mission – to explore and photograph one new Sydney suburb a week for a year. Originally presented as a weekly blog that developed a strong following, 52 Suburbs 52 Suburbs

Set in Stone Set in Stone is the first book to explore this iconic cultural site and the ground-breaking works that emerged from its rough sandstone walls.

9781742249445

The Enemy at Home: German internees in World War I Australia

Nadine Helmi, Gerhard Fischer

Dubotzki's rediscovered photographs and never-before-published excerpts from inmates' diaries reveal what life was like inside the Holsworthy, Berrima and Trial Bay internment camps.