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Baghdad: 'The Round City', 'The City of Peace'. This doesn't sound much like the city we hear of today. More Articles
Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis
17 June, 2009 Reconciliation is a catchcry often featured in the media, but Riding the Black Cockatoo has brought new life into a thorny issue. 
30 March, 2009 Our diversity has the potential to offer greatness, but it also presents opportunities for disaster. 
24 March, 2009 Picture the scene at Optus headquarters in mid-2008 with the government trying to get the National Broadband Network off the ground, monopoly provider Telstra looks like the obvious choice.
Pro Hart: The Pro Hart Pocket Companion by Paul Lonergan
24 March, 2009 With the introduction by Raylee Hart, this easyto- carry, compact pocket companion showcases a selection—on a smaller scale—of the prodigious work of the late Pro Hart. 
24 March, 2009 My Kid Is Back gives voice to 10 Australian families whose children have suffered anorexia. Interviewed by journalist June Alexander, they talk frankly about the onset of the disease, their sometimeslengthy struggle to find effective help, and their relief at discovering the Maudsley Approach of family-based treatment. 
23 March, 2009 Lorraine McGee-Sippel always felt like an outsider but never knew why. 
23 March, 2009 Gallipoli: The End of the Myth is an in-depth and intense look at the minutiae of the Gallipoli campaign. 
23 March, 2009 With this elegant historical work, drawing on French observations of the British convict settlement at Sydney Cove, Colin Dyer has delivered a valuable service to historians and the general reader.
Dear Editor: The Collected Letters of Oscar Brittle by Glenn Fowler, Christopher Smyth, Gareth Malone
23 March, 2009 The press enjoys a very privileged position in the community and, as well as being part of the public scrutiny of our politicians, governments, councils, companies, and sporting activities etc. 
23 March, 2009 Behind the Scenes is a warm and gentle portrait of Australian theatre luminary David Williamson, written by the woman who knows him best, his wife. 
23 March, 2009 This book is not just a biography of another person’s spiritual journey, it is a study of how ordinary people, given the right circumstances, can be manipulated into becoming a devotee of a cult. 
23 March, 2009 If you have regular customers who are military types, then The Accidental Guerilla is unlikely to be a hard sell. 
9 March, 2009 Don Watson is concerned about the erosion of language. Actually, he is very concerned—passionate, scathing, critical, and pompous at times—to the point that he risks being misunderstood. Death Sentence is a prime example of how high-level emotion in an author ruins clarity and why clear writing is not the same as clear thinking. 
13 February, 2009 It’s great to have the opportunity to review a book on a subject so close to my heart! In the 1980s, my father was principal of Yalata School, and I went to the pre-school 
13 February, 2009 In the same series as the award-winning The Penguin Book: Birds in Suits, and by the same author, comes this attractive, easily browsed book on a hot topic. 
13 February, 2009 If you’ve ever been puzzled by the controversysurrounding debates about the prehistoric evolutionof humankind, then Bone Readers is a must-readfor you. 
13 February, 2009 As Kerry Greenwood points out in her introduction, many people are ‘fascinated by wicked misdeeds and illegal acts’. 
13 February, 2009 I regularly spend silly sums on beautiful volumes of foodporn, seduced by glossy photography and cuttingedge graphic design 
13 February, 2009 The Heart of the Garden beguiles the reader into assessing what they truly want from a garden, then provides an abundance of ideas and 20 diverse garden designs to help make them happen. 
13 February, 2009 The Gluten-Free Cookbook is the latest offering from the productive Australian Women’s Weekly kitchen. 
13 February, 2009 When this book arrived on my desk, I thoughtto myself, ‘How do you review a cookbook?’ Thesimplest answer seemed to be to try a few of therecipes out. 
13 February, 2009 George Raper (1769-1796), second son of a wellto-do London family, joined the Royal Navy in1783, at the age of 13. 
13 February, 2009 In this excellent, intimate, unassuming travel memoir,Melbourne writer Roger Averill accompanies his partner,sociologist Shelley Mallett, to Nuakata, a remote islandin Papua New Guinea’s Goshen Strait, where Mallett isresearching islander women’s health and the relationshipbetween mulamula Papua (traditional healing) andWestern medicine. |
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