The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
From the bestselling author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers: The Story of Success" overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachie ... |
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Author: Jon Ronson
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose l ... |
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The Ten Desires That Drive Us
Author: Hugh Mackay
Why do we talk as if we're rational, but act as if we're not? Why are some people such control freaks? What is the true role of religion? Why do we seek change, yet resist it? Why do we want more of the things that have ... |
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The Mining Boom and Australia's Future
Author: Paul Cleary
In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows that the resources boom, which seems like a blessing, has the potential to become a curse unless our governments take urgent action. Today, under-taxed and under-regulated multinationa ... |
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Author: Anita Heiss
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of identity? Anita Heiss, successful author and pa ... |
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What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Author: Jared Diamond
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with an ... |
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Author: Robert A. Segal
30-Second Mythology sets out the most significant details and unravels the underlying meaning of the greatest classical myths. Revealing the origins of the gods, heroes, and monsters of ancient Greece and Rome, the book ... |
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Author: Ramona Koval
In The Best Australian Essays 2012, Ramona Koval puts together a wide-ranging collection of the year's most thought-provoking non-fiction pieces. Some are life-altering and full of insight, some dazzle and challenge, but ... |
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Dumbing Down Democracy
Author: Lindsay Tanner
'After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial pressures and technological innovation, the media are r ... |
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Author: John Clarke
Does the following person sound familiar? * He/she works inside many of Australia's businesses and corporations. * He/she intimidates fellow workers. * He/she exhibits impulsive behaviour. * He/she demonstrates a lack of ... |
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How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Author: Niall Ferguson
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is ami ... |
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Author: Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, ... |
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Author: Adam Shand
Barwon Prison's maximum security unit, 19 April 2010: Carl Williams is beaten to death with the stem of an exercise bike by a fellow inmate, while guards sit in the next room. And so, the last moments of this convicted c ... |
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A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Author: Harriet Goldhor Lerner
"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to," writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic that has transformed the lives of millions of readers.While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still lear ... |
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Author: George Negus
George Negus is one of Australia's most respected journalists. As the host of SBS TV's Dateline, and in his earlier international programs Foreign Correspondent and 60 Minutes, George has traversed the world, meeting and ... |
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Author: George Ritzer
This five-volume Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization and is the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field. * Offers clear and concise e ... |
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New Thinking
Author: Paul N. Bloom & Edward Skloot
Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way. T ... |
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Population and Well-Being in History
Author: Louis P. Cain & Donald G. Paterson
The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time a ... |
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Ready, Set...Test
Author: Carol Barnum
Do you love your mobile phone? Your MP3 player? Your e-book reader? You laptop or tablet PC? There's a reason for that. Usability. When usability testing is part of the design and development of products, the results are ... |
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Inside the Beaconsfield Mine Disaster
Author: Tony Wright, Todd Russell & Brant Webb
Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre und ... |
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