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Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special by Liam Pieper
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Specials
Liam Pieper's made some poor life choices, but he's (usually) meant well. He's tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he's ended up with life-threatening infestations, a punch in the face at a Leonard Cohen concert and brief detention by counter-terr ...Show more
On Listening: Penguin Special by Martin Flanagan
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
'If you're quiet enough, quiet as a tree, people will camp beneath your branches and tell you stories you would never otherwise hear.' Martin Flanagan shares how listening has been an essential part of his life from when he started hitch-hiking at fourteen through to writing a book about Aboriginal foot ...Show more
Reclaiming Epicurus: How an Ancient Philosophy of Happiness Could Save the World (Penguin Specials) by Luke Slattery
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials
Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek 'philosophy of the Garden' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made clim ...Show more
Rudd, Gillard and Beyond (was Where Should Labor Go Next?) by Troy Bramston
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Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Specials
Troy Bramston is a former principal speechwriter for Kevin Rudd and an adviser to the Rudd government. He spent 10 years working as an adviser to federal Labor politicians in government and in opposition. He has been a party member for nearly 20 years and has held many positions in the party at a local ...Show more
Take Your Best Shot The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard by Jacqueline Kent
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Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Specials
Following from her successful biography The Making of Julia Gillard, here Jacqueline Kent analyses the tumultuous term in office of our first female prime minister. Take Your Best Shot is an insightful and immensely readable account of Gillard's time at the top, and of just how adversarial her environme ...Show more
The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2014 'The Absent Therapist is a miniature but infinite novel, and unlike anything I've read before. It's just achingly good.' Luke Kennard The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and ...Show more
The Ellis Laws: Penguin Special by Bob Ellis (Director)
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Specials
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough
The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special by Anna Funder
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction - the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.' Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she dec ...Show more
The Simple Life by Rhonda Hetzel
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Category: Social Discourse | Series: Penguin Specials
Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal, learning traditional skills, reducing ...Show more
The Tunnel by Dennis McIntosh
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Specials
Annotation. Resuming his story where Beaten by a Blow left off, Dennis McIntosh gives an eye-opening account of seven years working underground, and how it impelled him to turn his life around.When Dennis McIntosh first walked onto the construction site for the tunnel running from Werribee, in Melbourne ...Show more
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House (Penguin Special) by Daryl Dellora
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials
Jorn Utzon designed the Sydney Opera House so that every element would be in harmony. But its construction, while it began in just that way, ended in complete discord. The visionary state government that commissioned the project was replaced by one that did not appreciate it and stopped funding it. Utzo ...Show more
What Would Gandhi Do? by Michael Kirby
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Category: Social Discourse | Series: Penguin Specials
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby reflects on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, analysing how the Mahatma might respond to some pressing issues facing modern society