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Caution! This book contains deadly reptiles

Corey Tutt & Ben Williams

Join Corey Tutt OAM as he shares knowledge from 20 different First Nations in this exploration of Australia's deadly crocodiles, turtles, lizards and snakes!

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From Bradshaw to Wandjina : aboriginal paintings of the Kimberley region, Western Australia

David M. Welch

"From Bradshaw to Wandjina" explores the evolution of Kimberley Aboriginal rock art, specifically tracing the transition from Bradshaw figures to Wandjina deities.

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Gamu : the dreamtime stories, life and feelings of Big Bill Neidjie

Bill Neidjie & Sarah George

Sarah George has been entrusted and guided by Big Bill as he unlocks gates to a secret country. Now, you too can see anew the landscape and the spirituality that hangs subtly like a mist, aware of the ageless philosophy that he lived by. This Book will enable many to witness the path of his ancestors, the songlines travelled by the spirit beings, ever so strongly and with a rightful first nations narrative. 
 

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How to feed the world

Vaclav Smil

How Food Really Works shows how we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. Ultimately, this data-based, rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future.

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Ṉäku Dhäruk : the Bark Petitions :

Clare Wright

This is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the people who made it. It paints a vibrant picture of the profound and ancient culture of Australia's first peoples, in all its continuing vigour. Clare Wright's groundbreaking Democracy Trilogy began with The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (workers' rights) and continued with You Daughters of Freedom (women's rights). After a decade of research and community consultation, it concludes, fittingly, with a fascinating and compulsively readable account of a momentous but little-known episode in our shared political history.

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Ngarinyman to English dictionary

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Ngarinyman is an Aboriginal language of the northern Victoria River District in the Northern Territory (Australia). Many Ngarinyman people live in Yarralin, Bulla Camp, Amanbidji (Kildurk) and around Timber Creek. The Ngarinyman to English Dictionary contains Ngarinyman words with English translations, illustrations and detailed encyclopaedic information about plants, animals and cultural practices. 

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Six Days in Bombay

When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a larger life, finds herself carried away by Mira's stories of her travels and exploits and is shocked by accounts of the many lovers the painter has left scattered throughout Europe. When Mira dies quite suddenly and mysteriously, Sona falls under suspicion, and her quiet life is upended.

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The how not to age cookbook

Michael Greger, Robin Robertson, Antonis Achilleos

Dr Michael Greger revealed that a healthy diet is one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. His Anti-Aging Eight streamlined evidence-based research into simple, accessible steps for ensuring physical and mental longevity. Filled with more than 100 recipes to help you live well for longer, 'The How Not To Age Cookbook' brings together decades of scientific research. These simple, nutrition-packed dishes make use of ingredients that have been proven to promote a healthy lifespan and inspiration from the places around the world where people traditionally live the longest.

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The imperfect murder

James Patterson & J.D Barker 

Wife. Writer. Murderer? When Denise Morrow is discovered standing over the body of her husband, a bloody knife between them, Detective Declan Shaw thinks it's an open-and-shut case. But Denise is no ordinary murder suspect. She's a famous true crime author, who knows how killers operate. And how they get away with it. 

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The Next Day

Melinda French Gates

During times of transition, we step out of our familiar surroundings and into a new landscape, a space that can be filled with possibility but also shadowed by uncertainty. The Next Day accompanies readers through that space, offering guidance to anyone - young or old - who is navigating change, finding their bearings, or trying to move forward when the ground beneath you is shifting. 

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The Other March Sisters

Linda Epstein, Ally Melinenko and Liz Parker

Four sisters, each as different as can be. Through the eyes and words of Jo, their characters and destinies became known to millions. Meg, pretty and conventional. Jo, stubborn, tomboyish, and ambitious. Beth, shy and good-natured, a mortal angel readily accepting her fate. And Amy, elegant, frivolous, and shallow. But Jo, for all her insight, could not always know what was in her sisters' thoughts, or in their hearts. With Jo away in New York to pursue her literary ambitions, Meg, Beth, and Amy follow their own paths.

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The South

Tash Aw 

When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay's father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm's manager, different from him in every way except for one. 

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The Unquiet Grave

Dervla McTiernan

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior. There's nothing in Grey's past that would explain why he was murdered, or why his body was mutilated in a ritual manner. 

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Through Silent Country

Carolyn Wadley Dowley 

On the whim of the government authorities, nineteen Wongutha people were exiled away from their Country and their people. They were seemingly powerless. They were locked up, trucked off, given inmate numbers in a government compound -- their fate was sealed. And then they escaped. They escaped and walked home to their Country. The stories of the Wongutha people, and careful archival research, have enabled Carolyn to traverse the historical silence and piece together a story of injustice, survival and triumph. 

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Till death do us part

Lauren Zonfrillo

It is difficult to take myself back to the beginning, and even more difficult to share such a private time in my life. But I will. It's how I will find meaning from the loss, from the universe robbing the kids and me of an extraordinary father and husband, by paying it forward to you. In this deeply personal and heartfelt memoir, Lauren Zonfrillo details her journey through grief after the sudden and public loss of her husband, Jock - chef, restaurateur and, of course, beloved MasterChef Australia judge. 

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