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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.
A quick glance at this book could make one think that it is written by a woman for women and has little to offer…
On the strength of its cover art – a clapboard New England church standing amidst apocalyptic smoke plumes –…
This book looks at the many aircrew who made up RAF Bomber command in World War Two, the many Germans who as aircrew,…
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…
The Lost tells of how he investigated the history of his family by travelling back to Bolechow in Poland,…
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…
It seems that in recent times that some atheists have become more and more ‘evangelistic’, in the sense of…
Here’s your experiment. You travel towards a new planet knowing that, of the two races, one is friendly towards…
In The Lucifer Effect Zimbardo assembles disturbing evidence that any one of us, if subjected to the right…
There is something about Kevin Rudd’s ascendancy to the Labor leadership that resembles that famous scene from…
With The Secret claiming to hold the key to our happiness (as well as holding the key to finding the perfect…
He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men takes us to the heart of how teenage boys think. It’s…
I must confess that until reading Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery,…
Part Indiana Jones, part The Da Vinci Code, and part Discovery Channel with a bit of CSI and…
Jack Spong is back. Once again he is visiting Australia to promote a new book. This one is called Jesus for…
Spong paints a portrait of a Jesus who overturned the barriers of race, creed and sexuality in order “to free…
Ideas that were once widely credited but that we now find absurd or horrifying are a limitless source of human…



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