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From Hobart's convict legacy, its spectacular natural setting, heritage architecture and climate, to crime rates, economic hardship and new developments, not to mention the game-changer that is MONA, Timms brings a wealth of fresh insights, exploring the city with a mixture of affection, admiration, frustration and sadness.

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Reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.

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Honour's Mimic combines the authentic Greek setting of Charmian Clift's travel memoirs with the fine writing that has caused her to be described as Australia's greatest essayist.

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How to be a (fantastic sensational) good enough kid is the ultimate guide for kids and parents to discover that feeling 'good enough' is already within our reach.

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This gonzo guide isnt for the faint-hearted. In high-octane style, best-selling author John Birmingham provides tried-and-tested tips for writing well - and getting paid. Topics covered include how to slay writers block, what the hell is workflow, how to write 10,000 words in a day and the best apps for writers.

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Welcome to the adrenaline-charged world of transplant surgery. Top Australian surgeon Dr Kellee Slater invites us inside the operating theatre with her dedicated team as she performs life-or-death surgery on a newborn baby, brings a dying liver back to life with a staple gun, and undertakes the confronting task of removing donor organs.

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Takes us into some of the most prominent and fascinating micronations around the world, including the Principality of Hutt River, the Republic of Minerva, the Principality of New Utopia and more. How to Rule Your Own Country is a lively account of the people who decide that enough is enough and create their own nation.

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So-called unloseable elections are lost, reminding us that every election is a real contest. In this indispensable book drawing from years of close-up observation and analysis, historian and political journalist Chris Wallace draws out the ten essential steps to winning an election.

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A lyrical work of creative nonfiction, Human/Nature is an exploration of how and why we think about the natural world the way we do.

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Australian winegrowing is as old as European Australia. While the Hunter Valley is not the ideal place to grow grapes climatically, it's the only Australian wine region planted in the nineteenth century to continuously host vineyards. Hunter Wine profiles the people, history and technology that have shaped the region's wine from vine to glass.

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A captivating account of Australian documentary photography at its height including the photographs of Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, William Yang, Rennie Ellis, David Moore, Mervyn Bishop, Sue Ford and others.

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Acclaimed biographer Jacqueline Kent traces the social and political issues that inspired and often hampered Australian radical women writers and their desire to change the world.

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In the public debate about the success or failure of Australia's Indigenous policies, opinions have been grounded more often in personal experience than in social scientists' research. This work asks: What vision of the "good life" should guide an assessment of policy

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A timely examination of the impact of Australias antiterror laws after September 11, and the new 2014 terror laws. Timely and piercing, this book asks whether Australia really needed to enact anti-terrorism laws in the first place, let alone add to them. Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.

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When Greg Fisher was a child his mother said hed either be very successful or end up in jail. After a comfortable upbringing Greg married, had a child and started making his way up the corporate ladder. But after coming out and leaving his wife, Gregs life veered into the fast lane. Written with brutal honesty, Inside Out is an extraordinary story of ambition, addiction and redemption.

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Both famous in their day, Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. With sensitivity and insight, she wonders whether their work speaks to us today and what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.

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Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly 'sex and sin' narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters - some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up.

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The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played or failed to play in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal presented as a single air campaign.

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Land Back tells the story of the work that has been done, and is yet to be done, to get land back.