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Draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Cassandra Szoeke shares the wisdom revealed by this comprehensive study, showing how to promote overall wellness and providing the key ingredients for living a long and healthy life.

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By interrogating the roles of eight individuals intimately involved in the conduct of the Cold War, and drawing on many years of research, Phillip Deerys Spies and Sparrows shines a powerful new light on the history of ASIO and raises important and enduring questions about the nature and impact of a states surveillance of its citizens.

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Pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It shows a continent always vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been in existence for millions of years, and what climate change in our own backyard looks like.

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Practical and humorous, Surviving your Split it's the sort of guidance you'd get if your best friend was a family lawyer. It's for everyone who needs help to navigate the legal minefield of divorce, and wants some tips on how to get through it with their life relatively intact-and the possibility of creating an even better, happier life at the other side.

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Until 1846, surgery was performed without anaesthesia. Much has been written about surgery in the nineteenth century, but little has been said about the development of the relationship between surgeon and anaesthetist. In The Chloroformist, Christine Ball tells the captivating story of Joseph Clover - an innovative, hard-working and deeply humane pioneer of modern patient care.

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What was behind the wall and the wire The local people knew. Fine courtyards. An old swimming pool. Dilapidated tennis courts and a remnant garden, now wild and sprawling. The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of a site's rich history and the efforts to preserve it. This is an uplifting tale of community activism.

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Trinity College opened in 1872 as the first student residence associated with the University of Melbourne. This book provides a detailed historical account of the colleges development and public contribution, set alongside the social, political and education changes in Australia over the past 150 years.

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Offers a courageous, informed, and sober insiders account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within this fourth largest nation, by population, and vital participant in world affairs.

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Reveals how bird-people in Australia have gone about their craft across the years. The stories come from wild places - at sea as well as on the land - from dusty archives, from restoration projects, gardens and urban wastelands. They are human stories, but the birds themselves interject and interrupt any self-important anthropocentrism.

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Focusing on William Coopers most important campaigns, this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to have the truth about Australias black history heard and win representation in Australias political order.

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Presents a collection of words, wisdom, witticisism, and reflections, from Ben Chifley to Barry Humphries, Julius Caesar to John Faulkner. Including some of the author's more memorable turns of phrase, this is a book of quotations compiled during a public life, on subjects such as sport politics and winning.

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A memoir about two European Jewish families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The authot begins his memoir with the story of his great-grandfather David, an inveterate cigar smoker, and his family's journey to becoming cosmopolitan Europeans thanks to the multicultural ideals of the Austro-Hungarian world.

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A forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint - the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generations of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late-19th century. It provides an insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s.