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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 fo...r living a long and healthy life.
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Why do you mess up when it matters the most - and how can you perform your best instead? Sian Beilock reveals the new science of why we all too often blunder when the stakes are high. She explains the inescapable links between body and mind, and shows how to succeed brilliantly w...hen it matters most.
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Transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith brings the night sky to life with her engaging storytelling, combined with brilliantly colourful illustrations.
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Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing in Chawton, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his Italian Gedankenbaum, 'thought tree'? In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young reveals some of literature's most intimate rela...tionships: between authors and their gardens.
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The dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. It begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal chal...lenge to the foundation of Australia.
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Recreates the excitement of Whitlam's historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man himself, this second volume finally exposes the tr...uth about the Whitlam years.
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By Ha, Tanya
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Explains what's going on with the environment - from climate change and drought to endangered species and habitat destruction - in an entertaining and accessible manner. Ha recognises the vital role that children play in the environmental movement, and the importance of keeping t...hem active, involved and interested in its future. Ages 8+.
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By Burke, Janine
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The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend. The book presents the role of trees in contemporary life in a world where most people don't live in the ...wild, and their acquaintance with nature comes from many sources.
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Drawing on the knowledge of Aboriginal elders and decades of anthropological scholarship, Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe provide extensive evidence to support their argument that classical Aboriginal society was a hunter-gatherer society and as sophisticated as the traditional Eur...opean farming methods.
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By Kells, Stuart
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Based on in-depth research and interviews - including with Alan King Jones, Bill Leslie and 'the father of Australian diamonds', Ewen Tyler - Argyle details the almost overwhelming challenges with realising a diamond mining venture in Australia, shows how these obstacles were ove...rcome, and explores the mine's impact and legacy.
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