NewSouth Books

Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

Stan Cox

Losing Our Cool exposes the surprising ways in which air conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to global warming that it is designed to help humans endure; enabling an otherwise impossible commuter economy; and altering human migration patterns.

The New Press

Alexander Outland: Space Pirate

Gini Koch
Night Shade Books

The Long-Legged Fly

James Sallis
No Exit Press
9781842436967, Paperback, AUD$19.99

Two Mates

Melanie Prewett, illustrated by Maggie Prewett
Magabala Books
9781921248450, Paperback, AUD$19.99

Celebrating Chinese Festivals: A Collection of Holiday Tales, Poems and Activities

Sanmu Tang
Shanghai Press
9781602209619, Hardback (B501), AUD$24.99

Driven

James Sallis
No Exit Press

Logic: The Laws of Truth

Nicholas J.J. Smith
Princeton University Press
9780691151632, Hardback (B315), AUD$84.00

Jamu

Susan-Jane Beers
Tuttle Publishing

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

Edited by Nick Newlin, author William Shakespeare
Nicolo Whimsey
9781935550297, Paperback (Trade paperback US), AUD$14.99

The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

Edited by Nick Newlin, author William Shakespeare
Nicolo Whimsey
9781935550280, Paperback (Trade paperback US), AUD$14.99

News

What Makes a Good School? Events

Jane Caro and Chris Bonnor, authors of What Makes a Good School? will be in conversation with Maralyn Parker at Gleebooks bookstore,in Glebe on July 31 from 6pm. More info at www.gleebooks.com.au. Jane Caro will also be speaking at The Stanton Library in North Sydney on July 10 from 1pm. Lunch tickets for this event available from www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au

Whackademia event at Gleebooks

Richard Hil, author of Whackademia will be in conversation with Antony Lowenstein at Gleebooks bookstore in Glebe on June 27 from 6pm. More details at www.gleebooks.com.au

Byron Bay Writer's Festival

NewSouth has several authors appearing at this year's Byron Bay Writer's Festival (August 3 to 5). Included in the programme are Sophie Cunningham, author of Melbourne, Ned Manning, author of Playground Duty, and Adrian Franklin, author of Retro. Further details at www.byronbaywritersfestival.com