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THE 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Stop people-pleasing and achieve true happiness. Millions have already benefited from the wisdom dispensed in The Courage to Be Disliked, its simple yet profound advice showing us how to harness our inner power to be...

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Sydney's legendary Radio Birdman were a stake through the satin and scarfed hearts of the mid seventies' music scene, revolutionising the conservative Australian industry in the process. Regarded as one of the earliest punk bands, before the world...

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Martin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and coll...

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The Independent's 2017 Book of the Year and a 2020 London Eater recommended read for lockdown 'If Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about wine, the results wouldn't linger much more pleasurably on the palate than this accessible, adventurous, ...

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Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life. She's sailed through the Pacific for years, been held up by pirates, worked at Sydne...

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There is no cure for Multiple Sclerosis, but you can make a real difference by changing what you eat. Medical research increasingly shows that a diet very low in saturated fat can reduce the progression of the disease and even reverse its course i...

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A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half of the hit podcast Toni and Ryan. Most of us tell little white lies all the time. Whether it's 'I'm five minutes away&apos...

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SHORTLISTED: 2025 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers SHORTLISTED: 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Writing for Young Adults 'A moving coming-of-age story with so much heart. For readers who enjoyed Heartstopper.' BOOKS & PUBLISHING Foot...

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WINNER: 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction book WINNER: 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award SHORTLISTED: 2025 Spark! School Book Awards - Non-Fiction categ...

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Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Foreword by Oliver Sacks What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or ...

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Become a calmer and happier mother with The Complete Buddhism for Mothers. Parenthood can be a time of great inner turmoil for a woman yet parenting books invariably focus on nurturing children rather than the mothers who struggle to raise them. T...

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In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in history. Dean Ka...

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Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of us cannot even see the Milky Way. But First Nations Elders around the world stil...

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'The Crossing is as profound as it is moving - a tapestry of adventure, love and, of course, camels.' Tim Cope, author of On the Trail of Genghis Khan In 2020, at the age of thirty-one, Sophie Matterson set out to walk her five camels from Shark B...

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First Published in 1987. In September 1985 the Social Geography Study Group of the Institute of British Geographers held a three-day conference at Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic on the subject of 'Race and Racism'. The present volume is a selec...

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This classic text delivers an essential insight into the Western mind at the turn of the twentieth century. When Hobson wrote about imperialism in 1902, it was not a term used negatively as it is today. It was an active foreign policy seen to bene...

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It is the thesis of this book that the birth of the state, usually associated with the emergence of the Greek "polis", can in fact be traced in the foundation myths and practices of the ancient Egyptian monarchy to which the feminine pri...

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"This book provides a fascinating summary of African history over 5000 years, from the Stone Age to the classical Greek and Roman era, through the 'medieval' period of the kingdoms of the Western Sudan and into the colonial era. This is far b...

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Published with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, this is a manual of radio production methods and practices for the Australian reader. Illustrated with diagrams, it provides an introduction to radio for students and practitioners o...

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This collection, the first of its kind in Australia, illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society. The studies presented here deal with diverse settings and events, rangin...

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The 30-day breakup recovery programme at the back of the book shows you how to work out a new daily routine for your new life.

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Islam is one of the world's oldest and most intriguing religions, and with so much attention focused on Muslim groups, the importance of understanding Islam today is self-evident. How does this classic religion deal with contemporary challenges in...

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Managing employees' performance is central to the role of every manager. Yet few organisations or managers are satisfied with their performance management systems - and few employees look forward to their performance reviews. This discontent has t...

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Psst, want a whole new approach to puberty? Puberty Girl is here to help!Whether or not you've started seeing the signs of your body changing, this fab book will bring new meaning and understanding to a young girl's tween years. Yes, it can be a c...

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The small business sector is, collectively, the biggest business in Australia. New ventures are continually being launched and the successful ones provide hope and a promise of satisfaction to all those who long to be their own boss. Previous edit...

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