2010-07-28 16:05:50
Authors attending The Brisbane Writer's Festival
 The Brisbane Writer's Festival will be held from September 1 to September 5, 2010
Featured authors include: Hamish McDonald (Mahabharata in Polyester), Matthew Condon (Brisbane), Ross Fitzgerald (My Name is Ross), Perminder Sachdev (The Yipping Tiger), and Brendan Gleeson (Lifeboat Cities).
For further information please visit www.bwf.org.au
2010-07-28 16:05:37
Authors attending The Melbourne Writer's Festival
The Melbourne Writer's Festival will be held from August 27 to September 5, 2010
Featured authors include: Perminder Sachdev (The Yipping Tiger), Brendan Gleeson (Lifeboat Cities), Adrian Franklin (Collecting the 20th Century), Melissa Harper (Symbols of Australia), Ross Fitzgerald (My Name is Ross), and Craig Mathieson (Playlisted)
For further information please visit www.mwf.com.au
2010-07-28 16:05:22
Launch of HIV in China
 HIV in China by Heather Worth and Jing Jun will be launched in The Pavilion at The University of NSW on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from 16:00
RSVP to c.rofe@unsw.edu.au by August 9
2010-07-28 16:05:08
Events for Brisbane
 Brisbane by Matt Condon will be launched at: The Avid Reader Bookstore in Brisbane on Thursday, August 5, 2010. Please visit www.avidreader.com for further details.
An In Conversation event (with Stuart Glover) will take place - at Coaldrake's The Barracks Bookstore (61 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane) - on Thursday, August 12, 2010 (18:00).
To book (cost $10/$8 concession) please call 07 3367 8526. Further details at www.coaldrakes.com
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2009-07-01
Law Handbooks now published by Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia now publish
The Law Handbook,
The Environmental Law Handbook,
and The Family Law Handbook.
For enquiries visit the website; thomsonreuters.com.au
or contact Customer Service at LTA.Service@thomsonreuters.com
or on 1300 304 195
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LOVE BITES: THE UNOFFICIAL SAGA OF TWILIGHT
Liv Spencer
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PB
ECW Press
$24.95
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SEVEN
Alexander McCall Smith
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HB
Polygon
$34.95
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BRISBANE
Matthew Condon
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HB
New South
$29.95
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VANDA & YOUNG: INSIDE AUSTRALIA'S HIT FACTORY
John Tait
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PB
New South
$34.95
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FRANK HURLEY'S ANTARCTICA
Helen Ennis
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HB
National Library of Australia
$24.95
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CHOICE GUIDE TO BABY PRODUCTS 13th Ed
Choice Books
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PB
CHOICE Books
$29.95
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DEGUSTATION: A MASTER CHEF'S LIFE THROUGH MENUS
Alain Fabrégues
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HB
UWA Publishing
$84.95
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GAZA: MORALITY, LAW AND POLITICS
Raimond Gaita
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PB
UWA Publishing
$29.95
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Rita Monaldi
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Francesco Sorti
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PB
Polygon
$29.95
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THE AUSTRALIAN FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDEN
Clive Blazey
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Jane Varkulevicius
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HB
The Digger's Club
$39.95
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LIKE A FISHBONE
Anthony Weigh
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PB
Currency Press
$18.95
A remote valley. An unspeakable crime. A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial to the victims. On the eve of the presentation of the memorial to the public, a blind woman comes out of the rain and into the architect’s studio. She is the mother of one of the victims and she demands to be heard. Over the next hour the two women do battle over what it means to memorialise the dead, what it means to be a mother and what it means to believe. Like A Fishbone is both a psychological thriller and a haunting puzzle about faith, compassion and the danger of telling the truth.
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STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2010/11: CITIES FOR ALL: BRIDGING THE URBAN DIVIDE
UN-HABITAT
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Following on from previous State of the World’s Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of ‘The Urban Divide’ to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. In particular, the book focuses on the concept of the ‘right to the city’ and ways in which many urban dwellers are excluded from the advantages of city life, using the framework to explore links among poverty, inequality, slum formation and economic growth.
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BRISBANE
Matthew Condon
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HB
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I keep coming back to the light of Brisbane. If you are born into it, this palette of gentle pinks and oranges at dawn and dusk, the blast white of midday in summer, the lemon luminescence of mid-morning and mid-afternoon, you keep it with you, and measure all other light by it. If you live away from it, then step back into it, it is the first thing that tells you you’re home.
In this book, the third in a series on Australian cities in which leading Australian authors write about their home city, novelist and journalist Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood, Brisbane. Having returned there after many years, Condon takes the reader on a unique and personal journey through contemporary Brisbane, unearthing its history—sometimes literally—and painting a portrait of the contemporary transformation of the city.
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VANDA & YOUNG: INSIDE AUSTRALIA'S HIT FACTORY
John Tait
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PB
New South
$34.95
Harry Vanda and George Young put Friday on our minds, triggered Easyfever with the Easybeats, and harnessed the raw energy and power of Aussie pub rock to make superstars of AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, and the Angels. The day Vanda and Young met at Sydney’s Villawood Migrant Hostel has been called the most significant moment in Australian music history. What followed, as members of the Easybeats, producers and mentors for George’s brothers’ band AC/DC, and songwriters of a diverse range of hits from ‘Friday on My Mind’, ‘She’s So Fine’, ‘Yesterday’s Hero’ and ‘Love is in the Air’ to ‘Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again’, has
provided the soundtrack to the last 50 years. Featuring revelatory interviews with Vanda and Young and members AC/DC and the other chart-topping acts they worked with, this is the inspirational story of Australia’s top songwriters, producers and starmakers.
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FRANK HURLEY'S ANTARCTICA
Helen Ennis
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HB
National Library of Australia
$24.95
Frank Hurley is best known for his stunning Antarctic photographs. Here, Helen Ennis discusses some of his most famous images and the conditions in which they were taken. Uniquely, Hurley’s own words are sprinkled throughout as facsimiles from his diaries written during both the Mawson and Shackleton expeditions. For Hurley, image-making and exploration went hand in hand and he sought out exalted
experiences, through physical struggle, through relationships with the natural world and through story telling. This book brings to life his passion for photography and for making art, and his own spirit of survival.
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