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Why Mars and Venus Collide

04/07/08 | David McKay
According to John Gray, billed as “the greatest living authority on how men and women relate,” men and women are very different from one another and this is the cause of friction between them.

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My Seventh Monsoon

19/11/07 | Kathryn Broughton
A quick glance at this book could make one think that it is written by a woman for women and has little to offer…

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Have a Nice Doomsday

12/11/07 | Alan Dungey
On the strength of its cover art – a clapboard New England church standing amidst apocalyptic smoke plumes –…

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Bomber Boys

05/11/07 | Peter Kirsop
This book looks at the many aircrew who made up RAF Bomber command in World War Two, the many Germans who as aircrew,…

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Baby-Proofing Your Marriage

22/10/07 | Mark Tough
As a father of 3 kids, and with a 4th on the way, I thought that it would be a good idea for me to have a look…

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The Lost

15/10/07 | David McKay
The Lost tells of how he investigated the history of his family by travelling back to Bolechow in Poland,…

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Walking the Camino

08/10/07 | Elly Byrne
This is a book not to be hurried through. It is not a murder mystery to be rushed through to the end. It is not…

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The Atheist Manifesto

01/10/07 | Stephen Bell
It seems that in recent times that some atheists have become more and more ‘evangelistic’, in the sense of…

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By Hook or by Crook

24/09/07 | Chris Little
Here’s your experiment. You travel towards a new planet knowing that, of the two races, one is friendly towards…

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The Lucifer Effect

10/09/07 | Alan Dungey
In The Lucifer Effect Zimbardo assembles disturbing evidence that any one of us, if subjected to the right…

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Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography

03/09/07 | Karin Sowada
There is something about Kevin Rudd’s ascendancy to the Labor leadership that resembles that famous scene from…

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The Secret

27/08/07 | Louise Cummins
With The Secret claiming to hold the key to our happiness (as well as holding the key to finding the perfect…

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He’ll Be Ok

20/08/07 | Heather Smith
He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men takes us to the heart of how teenage boys think. It’s…

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Amazing Grace

13/08/07 | Brett Hall
I must confess that until reading Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery,…

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The Jesus Family Tomb

06/08/07 | Richard Humphrey
Part Indiana Jones, part The Da Vinci Code, and part Discovery Channel with a bit of CSI and…

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Jesus for the Non-Religious

30/07/07 | Mark Thompson
Jack Spong is back. Once again he is visiting Australia to promote a new book. This one is called Jesus for…

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Jesus for the Non-Religious 2

30/07/07 | John Dickson
Spong paints a portrait of a Jesus who overturned the barriers of race, creed and sexuality in order “to free…

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Curious Obsessions

25/07/07 | Alan Dungey
Ideas that were once widely credited but that we now find absurd or horrifying are a limitless source of human…

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Vietnam

11/07/07 | Peter Denham
With a title like this one, you can get a feel for what is coming. I wasn’t really surprised that a definitive…

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