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Is There No Place: Penguin Special by Kate Richards
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Category: Health / Lifestyle | Series: Penguin Specials
Kate Richards experienced episodes of depression and psychosis well into her adult life. As a trained doctor working in medical research, she is well positioned to ask the hard questions about how we care for our people with mental illness. Using case studies and her own observations, Kate challenges th ...Show more
Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Specials by Sonya Hartnett
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing her life and work through the lens of real estate, she vividly r ...Show more
Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in Chaotic China during the First World War by WOOD, FRANCES
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
The ripple effects of the First World War came at an inopportune time for the infant Chinese republic. The country had joined a number of international organisations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional region ...Show more
Radish by Mo Yan
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Specials
During China's collectivist era in the late 1950s, a rural work team responsible for building an important floodgate receives a strange new recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, silent and almost feral boy. Assigned to assist the blacksmith at the worksite forge, Hei-hai proves superhumanly indifferent to pain or ...Show more
Reclaiming Epicurus: How an Ancient Philosophy of Happiness Could Save the World (Penguin Specials) by Luke Slattery
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Specials
Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made clim ...Show more
Rudd, Gillard and Beyond (was Where Should Labor Go Next?) by Troy Bramston
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Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
Troy Bramston is a former principal speechwriter for Kevin Rudd and an adviser to the Rudd government. He spent 10 years working as an adviser to federal Labor politicians in government and in opposition. He has been a party member for nearly 20 years and has held many positions in the party at a local ...Show more
Take Your Best Shot The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent
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Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
Following from her successful biography The Making of Julia Gillard, here Jacqueline Kent analyses the tumultuous term in office of our first female prime minister. Take Your Best Shot is an insightful and immensely readable account of Gillard's time at the top, and of just how adversarial her environme ...Show more
The Ellis Laws: Penguin Special by Bob Ellis (Director)
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Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough
The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery
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Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
While violent revolution and social upheaval rocked Europe, far away in New South Wales, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was sowing the seeds for the Australian idea of the 'fair go'. Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed that a person's worth - be they gentry, infantry or convict - lay in ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: New Fiction | Series: Penguin Specials
'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she ...Show more
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo by John Garnaut
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: Penguin Specials
When news of the murder trial of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Xilai's wife reached Western attention, it was apparent that, as with many events in the secretive upper echelons of Chinese politics, there was more to the story. Now, as the Party's 18th National Congress oversees the biggest leaders ...Show more