Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76)
By: Peter Hartcher
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But …
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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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3. We Were the Mulvaneys
By: Joyce Carol Oates
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed … read more
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4. A Short History of Nearly Everything
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages,
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5. Gerald's Game
By: Stephen King
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Gerald und Jessie Burlingame haben sich in ihr einsames Sommerhaus zuruckgezogen. Gerald mochte dem… read more
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6. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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7. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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8. The Bhagavad Gita
By: Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa , Juan Mascaró , None
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The Bhagavad Gitais an intensely spiritual work that forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and … read more
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9. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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10. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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11. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)
By: Chris Hammer
4.07
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more
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12. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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13. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
By: Nir Eyal
3.75
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
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14. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more
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15. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
By: Julia Baird
3.78
Format: 320 pages, ebook
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more
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"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
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16. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
17. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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18. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
By: Faith G. Harper
3.32
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more
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"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
19. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
By: David Attenborough
4.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more
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"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
20. The Call
By: Christian White
3.56
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for years, running one of the two local pubs in the slee… read more
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21. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
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"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
22. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
By: Leigh Phillips
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more
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23. Auē
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4.50
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Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
24. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
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For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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25. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
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4.27
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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26. Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath
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27. The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
By: Beau Donelly
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Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a health… read more
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28. Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76)
By: Peter Hartcher
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But … read more
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29. Stalin's Wine Cellar
By: John Baker
3.89
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In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepr… read more
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30. Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing
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4.03
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler bo… read more
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"To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time."-David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing
"I thought about the opposite sex endlessly, and as I grew up, it became an almost all-consuming desire: resting my head against the soft fullness of a breast (pendulous or pert, it didn't matter), wa…"-David Leser, Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing
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31. Please Gamble Irresponsibly: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Sports Gambling in Australia
By: Titus O'Reily
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Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. But how did we get here? In his inimit… read more
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