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
Bestsellers*
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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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SECRETUM
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
*The Bestsellers are compiled from the last 30 days sales up to the yesterday (excluding texts)
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DEGUSTATION: A MASTER CHEF'S LIFE THROUGH MENUS
Alain Fabrégues
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HB
UWA Publishing
$84.95
Arguably the finest French restaurant in Australia, the sustained success of The Loose Box in Mundaring, Western Australia, is a testament to the extraordinary skills of its well-known chef Alain Fabrégues. Much like a degustation menu, this intricately designed cookbook is presented in many parts - each a complimentary element in the journey through 45 years of culinary knowledge, from Bordeaux, France to Western Australia. Alain’s most famous and popular dishes, such as Beef Cheeks and Crepe Chocolatine, are included here along with two entire menus created around one of Alain’s passions, the Black Truffle.
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DEALING WITH THE MEDIA
Chris Rau
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PB
UNSW Press
$34.95
When experienced journalist Chris Rau found herself on the other side of media fence after her sister Cornelia was wrongfully held in Baxter Detention Centre, suddenly she was an interviewee, commentator and media strategist. Dealing with the Media is essential reading for anyone who needs to transmit news or ideas to the world, or has been thrust into the media spotlight. This practical guide offers easy-to-follow advice on how to deal with the media – both traditional and electronic. Drawing from over two decades of journalism and media experience, Chris Rau offers guidance on the following:
• whether you have a story
• how to put it across in the best possible way
• finding the right media outlet
• how to prepare for radio, television and print media interviews
• running a press conference
• developing relationships with journalists
• how to deal with being the centre of a news story
• joining the online media revolution with blogs, podcasts and YouTube
With tips from a who’s who of the Australian media including David Marr, and Phillip Adams, this book is a valuable source of information for students, activists, community groups, businesses…and anyone else who can’t afford a spin doctor.
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YIWARRA KUJU: THE CANNING STOCK ROUTE
National Museum of Australia
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PB
National Museum of Australia
$59.00
The Aboriginal people of Australia’s Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south. This track became known as the ‘Canning Stock Route’.
In July and August 2007 nearly 70 artists, facilitated by Western Australian cultural organisation FORM, travelled up the stock route on a six-week return to Country. Yiwarra Kuju includes beautiful plates of the complete Canning Stock Route Collection and for the very first time tells the story of the stock route’s impact, and the importance of the country around it, by Aboriginal voices and interpreted through Aboriginal eyes.
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MARI NAWI: ABORIGINAL ODYSSEYS
Keith Vincent Smith
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PB
Rosenberg Publishing
$35.00
This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia’s early maritime history. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called the foreign ships 'mari nawi', meaning ‘large canoes’. With remarkable resilience, they became guides, go-betweens, boatmen, sailors, sealers, steersmen, whalers, pilots and trackers, valued for their skills and knowledge, while some, like Musquito, Bulldog and Dual, were exiled as Aboriginal ‘convicts’. They sailed the Australian coast, to sealing and whaling
grounds in Bass Strait, the icy sub-Antarctic and New Zealand and to international destinations like Timor, Mauritius, Bengal, Britain, Canada, Hawaii, Tahiti, San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro.
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MONEY AND POLITICS: THE DEMOCRACY WE CAN'T AFFORD
Joo-Cheong Tham
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PB
UNSW Press
$49.95
Money plays a controversial role in Australian politics. Political donations may spark claims of secret contributions and corruption. Do corporations or trade unions have undue infl uence over political parties by way of donations? Meanwhile, the activities of well-paid lobbyists come under the spotlight, with claims of preferential treatment and ‘favours for mates’. What role should lobbyists have in our political system? Public funding for political parties also attracts its share of criticism. Has it made politics fairer or entrenched the position of the major parties? There is a fear that while Australian politics has the trappings of a democracy, they mask an oligarchy where political power rests with only a few rich and powerful citizens and corporations. Money and Politics: The democracy we can’t afford systematically dissects how political parties raise and spend money and asks what this means for our democracy.
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