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Can fish feel pain Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot Science tackles some unexpected questions. Now in its tenth year, this much-loved anthology selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating science stories and essays from Australian writers, poets and scientists.

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Showcases Australia's best science writing. New voices join prominent science writers and journalists, taking us to the depths of the ocean, the fuels of the future, and to the Ryugu asteroid and back. The anthology also takes us straight the heart of complex ethical dilemmas and the calamitous crises frustrating scientists and writers alike.

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Presents the most riveting, entertaining, poignant, and fascinating science stories and essays from Australian writers, poets, and scientists. This collection covers another remarkable year, not only filled with seismic moments in science, but also shining a light on important work that would otherwise be overlooked.

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The annual collection now in its fourteenth year celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.

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Takes a global swoop from 30,000 feet down to the backyard bird feeder and pushes our understanding of the many aspects of bird feeding back up to new heights. Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers. Why do people do this Jones asks in The Birds at My Table.

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A spectacular 80 km track connects the iconic beaches of Bondi and Manly, and will have youwinding through secluded bays, protected bushland and the glitteringharbour city along the way. A must-have for visitors, the guide will equally surprise and delight, combining fascinating local and natural histories with clear instructions.

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Clearly and simply explains how language works and functions and makes understanding punctuation easy. This volume will help you sort out your verbs from your nouns and your adjectives from your adverbs, and whether a comma should go before or after a word or when to start a new sentence.

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Outsiders think of South Australia as being different, without really knowing much about it. Combining his own travel across the million-square kilometres of the state with an investigation of its history, Ben Stubbs seeks to find out what South Australia is really like.

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A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne's three autobiographies - The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) - in one volume.

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During the period from around 1815 to the early 1870s Australia began to find its place. The pace of colonial expansion accelerated while a kind of democracy emerged. More than a story of geography and politics, this title describes the way people thought and felt - what drove them, what troubled them.

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When it comes to the work/life balance, modern women continually find themselves in a no-win situation where they are criticised regardless of the path they choose. This book provides practical tips drawn from personal experience on how to improve the work/life balance.

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The definitive guide to researching family history in Australia.

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We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are across the globe. It could give all of us a better quality of life. Or it could further concentrate the world's wealth in the hands of a few. This book offers a bold vision for ensuring that we achieve the former.

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Bold and fearless, this book does more than help you find your inner statistician. It helps us to understand the way we live now and how we might shape our future. Looking beyond births, deaths and marriages, Liz Allen takes apart inequality, migration, tax, home ownership, and shares her own life course.

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Renowned food writer John Newton visits haute cuisine or fine dining restaurants, the cafes and mid-range restaurants, and heads home to the dinner tables as he samples what everyday people have cooked and eaten over centuries. His observations and recipes old and new, show what has changed and what hasn't.

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In this lively collection, renowned writers including Paul Daley, Mark McKenna, Peter Stanley, Carolyn Holbrook, Mark Dapin, Carmen Lawrence, Frank Bongiorno and Larissa Behrendt explore not only the militarisation of Australian history but the alternative narratives swamped under the khaki wash Indigenous history, frontier conflict, multiculturalism, the myth of egalitarianism, and economics.

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This is the story of how an ordinary bloke from the bush became the key figure in a movement that would change the shape of Australian cities and bring about lasting political and legal reform. This is the story of the house that Jack Mundey built. Mundey overturned the bulldozer mentality of the 1960s and 1970s and made Australians value heritage.

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Every day hundreds of people gather at the Australian War Memorial to hear a personal story of love, loss, service and sacrifice. The Last Post profiles some of the 102,800 soldiers whose names are listed on the Memorial's Roll of Honour, and explores how and why we commemorate.

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No matter what you write - novels, poems, papers, reports, emails or even Christmas cards, this fuss-free book will help you say what you mean to say as neatly and unmistakably as you can.

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A book on technique, style, craft and manners for those who write and wants to do it better. It is a manual of good diction, composition, sentence craft, paragraph design, structure and planning. It is enriched by examples of fine prose from great writers including Tim Winton.