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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Lee Beasley, Rebecca Marsh
    • 30 April 2006

    Reviews of the books The happy phrase: Everyday conversation made easily and In pursuit of plants: Experiences of nineteenth and early twentieth century plant collectors.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Luke O’Callaghan, Andrew Hamilton, Michele M. Gierck
    • 29 April 2006

    Reviews of the books After the Fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne; When faiths collide; Classical literature: A concise history and In the shadow of ‘Just Wars’: Violence,politics and humanitarian action.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Godfrey Moase, Kathryn Page, Chloe Wilson, Kate Stowell
    • 27 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary speeches that shaped our nation; Direct action and democracy today; Scraps of Heaven and Lazy Man in China.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Bec Butler, Emily Millane, Peter Pierce
    • 25 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Labour of Love: Tales from the World of Midwives; The Long, Slow Death of White Australia and The Dead Place.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick review

    • John James, Kathryn Page, Avril Hannah-Jones, Marcelle Mogg
    • 24 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea; Blush: Faces of Shame; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Moments of Truth.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick reviews

    • Emily Millane, Ali Lemer, Joel Townsend
    • 23 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Snowy River Story: The Grassroots Campaign to Save a National Icon; Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River; and A Short History of Myth.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick reviews

    • Brooke Davis, Elizabeth Allen, Joel Townsend, Robert Hefner
    • 21 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living; Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs; The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change; and Does my head look big in this?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Trouble in the kitchen

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 21 April 2006

    Inspired by TV cooking programs, men are buying cookbooks that were never meant to leave the top of a coffee table - and then they make shopping lists that include squid ink and quinoa.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True fakes

    • Simon Caterson
    • 20 April 2006

    We all know about the supposedly true books that turn out to be fakes, but perhaps even more remarkable is the way fiction can somehow become fact.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Riding out the Romantic Storm

    • Philip Harvey
    • 20 April 2006

    Philip Harvey reviews Ann McCulloch’s Dance of  the Nomad:  A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A.  D. Hope.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick reviews

    • Brooke Davis, Merrin Hughes, Kate Chester, Cassy Polimeni
    • 20 April 2006

    Reviews of the books The  Penelopiad;  Saving  Fish  from  Drowning;  No  Place  Like  Home;  and Breastwork:  Rethinking  Breastfeeding.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Paul Collins

    • Paul Collins
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    Paul Collins is an historian, broadcaster and writer. The author of 13 books, his most recent is The Birth of the West (2013). He is well known as a commentator on Catholicism and the papacy and has also written about the environment and population.

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