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    Broken Brains
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    Broken Brains

    A personal book about physical brain health and mental brain health, and how they coexist in two very different spaces. At the age of 31 Jamila Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. When she shared her diagnosis with loved ones, good friend Rosie...
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    Brainstorm
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    Brainstorm

    Revealing his fight against a diagnosis of 'incurable' brain cancer, this is the remarkable story of 2024 co–Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer. SHORTLISTED, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARWINNER, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY...
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  • Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything PB Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything PB
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    Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything PB

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD.The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by the Revered James Martin, SJ (bestselling author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage) is a practical spiritual guidebook that shows you how to manage relationships,...
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    RecipeTin Eats: Tonight
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    RecipeTin Eats: Tonight

    Original Australian edition, includes metric measurementsAustralia's favourite home cook, Nagi Maehashi, is back to solve the perennial problem of what's for dinner tonight ... and every night.Following on from her record-breaking first...
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    The Chairman's Lounge
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    The Chairman's Lounge

    Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, General Nonfiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the YearFrom the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the...
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    The Real Man's Toolbox The Real Man's Toolbox
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    The Real Man's Toolbox

    Most men look after their cars. They look after their trucks. They make sure their fishing rods are maintained and look after their golf clubs. BUT too many men don't look after themselves.It's not hard. Simple changes can literally mean the difference...
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    The Experience Effect The Experience Effect
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    The Experience Effect

    What motivates consumers to buy? It's more than just products and services themselves. Learn how your company can achieve the experience effect to build brand loyalty and earn repeat business.
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    Let Them Theory, The
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    Let Them Theory, The

    New York Times Bestselling Author. Millions of books sold worldwide!A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 Sunday Times BestsellerWhat if the key to happiness, success, and...
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  • Classical Poems by Arab Women
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    Classical Poems by Arab Women

    Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were not given the same consideration as their male counterparts'.Spanning 5,000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems by...
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  • Desert Songs of the Night
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    Desert Songs of the Night

    A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories...
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  • A River Dies of Thirst
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    A River Dies of Thirst

    'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming...
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  • The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
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    The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

    European and Arab versions of the Crusades have little in common. For Arabs, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were years of strenuous efforts to repel a brutal and destructive invasion by barbarian hordes. In The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin...
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    Menzies Ascendency
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    Menzies Ascendency

    Was Menzies's unprecedented electoral success merely a matter of luck, or did he make fortune bend to his will? On 30 November 1954, Robert Menzies became Australia's longest serving prime minister. Between the closely fought 1954 and 1961 elections, the...
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    Secretive Century
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    Secretive Century

    Monte grew up in a secretive century. She lived in a society where appearances mattered, and keeping them up often involved creating silence around ancestral origins, painful memories and personal desires. Monte Punshon refused to be labelled. She was,...
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    Menzies Watershed
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    Menzies Watershed

    The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its...
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    Nordic Edge
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    Nordic Edge

    Climate and energy. Work/life balance. Mining taxes. Progress on policy issues like these is essential, and yet they have become subject to the most rancorous partisanship, the precipitation of culture wars, and have brought down governments. It is...
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    Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry
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    Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry

    Prose poetry is a resurgent literary form in the English-speaking world and has been rapidly gaining popularity in Australia. Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have gathered a broad and representative selection of the best Australian prose poems...
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    Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
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    Colonial Kangaroo Hunt

    From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished...
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  • Kitchen Hymns
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    Kitchen Hymns

    Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Pdraig Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and turns...
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  • Field Notes from Death's Door
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    Field Notes from Death's Door

    This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion, and what trying to save the world actually entails.In her early...
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  • Daybreak in Gaza
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    Daybreak in Gaza

    'A city so rich in trees it looks like a cloth of brocade spread out upon the land.' Shamsaddin al-Dimashqi, geographer (1256-1327)This is Gaza a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire...
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    The Shrinking Goddess

    Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure Mother Earth was recreated as a crooked rib. Ranging from the absurd to the...
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    Paris Isn't Dead Yet

    French-American journalist Cole Stangler argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies in the striving, working-class districts, where residents are now being priced out. Stangler brings the real Paris to life, combining gripping, street-level...
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  • The Birds They Sang
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    The Birds They Sang

    Birds have inspired people since the dawn of time. They are the notes behind Mozart's genius, the colours behind Audubon's art and ballet's swansong.In The Birds They Sang, Stanisaw ubienski sheds light on some of history's most meaningful bird and human...
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    Sea of Troubles

    In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great...
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    Managing Overthinking (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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    Managing Overthinking (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

    Get your mind unstuck.It can be challenging to be mindful when you're trapped in your own head. Overthinking comes in many forms overanalysis, perfectionism, worry, rumination and each of these can be harmful to your productivity and well-being at work...
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  • The Housing Monster
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    The Housing Monster

    A house is more than four walls and a roof. From its design and production to the way it is sold, used, resold, and eventually demolished, it is crisscrossed by conflict.The Housing Monster is a scathing graphic guide that takes one seemingly simple,...
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    Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji
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    Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji

    The full set of 46 glorious prints of Mt Fuji by Japan's most famous artist!This beautiful Japanese-bound volume presents the complete set of prints Thirty-six Views of Fuji, one of the most famous series created by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849),...
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    Welcome to Ghost Mansion Vol. 1

    For fans of horror comedy, this story of a freelancer slacker who buys a mansion full of ghosts is sure to terrify and amuse in equal measure! Join Kaoru as she becomes landlord for a house full of specters!Kaoru Shinonome, who had been living as a...
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  • Sufi Cuisine
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    Sufi Cuisine

    'We are the flowers in the garden of the heavens; we are mezze and wine at God's gathering.' Rumioffers a sumptuous assortment of dishes inspired by the teachings of the thirteenth century Sufi mystic Rumi, alongside selections of his sayings and...
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    The Turban

    Unravel the fascinating history of the turban, from its origins to its religious uses and its appearance in contemporary fashion and culture.A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious...
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    Rudolf II
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    Rudolf II

    Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often coloured by myths of madness.Contrary to popular belief, Rudolf was not a passive recluse but an engaged monarch,...
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    Open Play

    'Open Play challenges the patriarchal system that has dictated women's participation in sport around the world...This book is not just a must-read it should become foundational in the future of women's sport from the grassroots to professional levels.'...
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  • To Die with Such Men
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    To Die with Such Men

    True stories from the Western volunteers serving in the Ukrainian International Legion fighting Russia on the frontline.This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western...
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  • Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
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    Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts

    Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An important book for art and design theorists, and other...
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  • The Queer Arab Glossary
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    The Queer Arab Glossary

    The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind survey of the linguistic landscape surrounding queerness in the Arab world. It brings together more than 300 words and terms used to refer to queer people across the spoken Arabic dialects, ranging from the...
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    Default Depression Default Depression
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    Default Depression

    It's a stressful world and we can become overwhelmed. But at what point does sadness become depression, and stress an anxiety disorder?In Default Depression, author Anthony Smith examines the medicalisation of common human experience. Regardless of...
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    An Everyone Story An Everyone Story
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    An Everyone Story

    'It was a disaster from the word go,' Barb Spriggs said when telling the story of her husband Bob's admission to the Oakden Older Persons' Mental Health Service in Adelaide. Barb had no idea that her story would launch a landmark inquiry, The Oakden...
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    Harry Hodgetts Harry Hodgetts
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    Harry Hodgetts

    From 'Big Shot' to 'Swindler'. From 'palatial two-storey Kensington Park home' to 'the cold cells of Adelaide Gaol'. Racier newspapers gloated when Harry Hodgetts was convicted of fraud and false pretences in September 1945.Hodgetts was Adelaide's...
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    Whispering Wire Whispering Wire
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    Whispering Wire

    The 3200-kilometre-long Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin was completed in 1872. It transformed Adelaide into Australia's communication hub, connecting the continent with the rest of the world and heralding the dawn of instant global...
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    Making the British empire, 1660-1800 Making the British empire, 1660-1800
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    Making the British empire, 1660-1800

    This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging...
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    Breakout! Breakout!
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    Breakout!

    The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. As Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry. When teenagers they'd been jailed for being black...
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From the timeless elegance of antiques and vintage collectables to cutting-edge architecture and design books, explore how creativity shapes our everyday surroundings.

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