(Paperback, 32nd edition)

Anyone who has attempted a crossword puzzle understands wicked problems. One wrong letter and the whole solution collapses, elegance becomes a mess. So too in life: complexity makes systems less robust. Solutions are rarely linear, wicked problems have no preordained solution. This edition addresses diverse wicked problems and exquisite dilemmas.

Includes stories of real people facing impossible odds, or dealing with the mundanity of life. This title showcases many such tales, and explores the way these narratives help us make sense of the world, despite conflicts about privacy, truth and perspective.

(Paperback, 34th edition)

(Paperback, 35th edition)

(Paperback, 36th edition)

It is time to revive the debate about national identity. The cliches of old have long exceeded their use-by date. This is a trying time of global transition and uncertainty, for societies and for individuals. Yet it is also a time when Australia has remarkable advantages - advantages it must build on if the nation is to prosper.

This edition considers what we can learn from our own travels or flights of fancy and from those who reach our shores from other lands.

From Olympia to Alice Springs, from the opening bounce to the close of play, from sports fields to board rooms, from cutting-edge strategy to kitchen-table yarns, Our Sporting Life

(Paperback)

The brilliant new novel from Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog. A woman journeys to contemporary Kyoto and, by learning to accept new truths about her family and herself, embraces the possibilities of new love

(Paperback)

Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna of the Pacific Islands.

(Paperback)

Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history

(Paperback)

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(Paperback)

Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade. This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less travelled, showing us a China rarely glimpsed by outsiders.

(Paperback, UK ed.)

The first in a new series from the author of the beloved Brock and Kolla mysteries

(Paperback)

An unprecedented exploration of contemporary Tibet, one of the worlds most inaccessible places, geographically and politically, and one of its most misunderstood.

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This profoundly moving tale, written in simple, clear prose, takes you inside the hearts and minds of two young boys trying their best to understand the unfathomable and to survive the unbearable. The ending will provide lots of opportunity for classroom talk.

(Paperback)

The story of four remarkable women traversing the literary landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia, from one of our nation's most eminent historians.

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If the conscious mind - the part you consider you - is just the tip of the iceberg in the brain, what is all the rest doing Our behaviour, thoughts and experiences are inseparably linked to a vast chemical-electrical network called the nervous system. David Eagleman illuminates this hidden world in his fascinating exploration of the human brain.

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The true story of the wrongful conviction of the infamous West Memphis Three, Life After Death is a powerful and unflinching first-person account of life on death row.

(Paperback, New edition)

Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books. Books that fit neatly into a section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely: secret, strange, and frantically sought-after.

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A man wakes in terror, choking for air. He has no memories and no sens His licence tells him his name is Eric Sanderson. Then the attacks begin. The Raw Shark Texts is a psychological thriller, a haunting love story and an epic quest laced with absurdist wit. Funny, moving and gripping, this will be the left-field hit of the year.