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Big White Lie Shortlisted

Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia by John Fitzgerald has been shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in the History Book category. The winners will be announced on September 16, 2008.

Events for Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia by Tess Lea

Melbourne Launch: Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton on Monday 22 September at 6:30pm, with guest speaker Don Watson.

Darwin Launch: Nicholas Rothwell from The Australian will launch Tess Lea's new book, with opening remarks by Dr David Ashbridge, CEO of NT Department of Health and Families, and comment by Dr John von Sturmer, anthropologist & artist.

WHEN: 5.30pm, Tuesday August 19
WHERE: Old Darwin Hospital Lands, access via Lambell Terrace, Larrakeyah
RSVP: Friday 15 August on 08 8946 6965 or sspr@cdu.edu.au

Events for Renovation Nation

Renovation Nation: Our obsession with home by Fiona Allon

Tuesday August 19, 6.30pm: Fiona Allon in conversation with journalist and author George Megalogenis at Readings Books, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton.

Friday August 22, 6.30 for 7pm: Fiona Allon in conversation with Sydney Morning Herald columnist Annabel Crabb at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. RSVP: 02 9660 2333

Parentonomics Launch

Catherine de Fontenay will launch Parentonomics: An economist dad's parenting experiences by Joshua Gans at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, ACMI Function Space (groundfloor), Federation Square, Melbourne on Sunday August 31 at 12:00pm.
RSVP: marketing@unswpress.com.au

Bestsellers

1. PARENTONOMICS: AN ECONOMIST DAD'S PARENTING EXPERIENCES
   Joshua Gans , PB $29.95
   
2. WHEN I'M 64: THE NEW RETIREMENT
   Donna Gibbs , PB $32.95
   
3. BUREAUCRATS AND BLEEDING HEARTS: INDIGENOUS HEALTH IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
   Tess Lea , PB $49.95
   
4. BYE-BYE CHARLIE: STORIES FROM THE VANISHING WORLD OF KEW COTTAGES
   Corinne Manning , PB $39.95
   
5. THE LITTLE RED WRITING BOOK
   Mark Tredinnick , PB $29.95
   
6. THE F WORD: HOW WE LEARNED TO SWEAR BY FEMINISM
   Jane Caro , Catherine Fox , PB $29.95
   
7. THE SCOTS IN AUSTRALIA
   Malcolm Prentis , PB $39.95
   
8. FORGETTING ABORIGINES
   Chris Healy , PB $39.95
   
9. TERMITES AND BORERS: A HOME-OWNER'S GUIDE TO THEIR DETECTION, PREVENTION AND CONTROL 2nd Ed
   Phillip Hadlington , Ion Staunton , PB $19.95
   
10. TRAFFICKED
    Kathleen Maltzahn , PB $19.95
    

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PARENTONOMICS: AN ECONOMIST DAD'S PARENTING EXPERIENCES Joshua Gans , PB $29.95 This funny and insightful book is written by a professor of economics who wonders what it would be like to apply key economic principles to raising his own three gorgeous children. Can incentives and rewards help to get them to do things like sleep through the night, eat healthy meals, clean up their rooms, do their homework? Can economics help the smart, caring, welladjusted, high-achieving little person that we know is in there to emerge? From the birthing class to the birthday party and the parent-teacher interview, Joshua Gans tells stories about everyday issues and conundrums that will be familiar to all parents. His fresh insights and highly original questions will have parents everywhere nodding in agreement and chuckling to themselves. Parentonomics shows that bringing together the hard questions of economics with the chaos, mess and love that children inspire is a wonderful combination. WHEN I'M 64: THE NEW RETIREMENT Donna Gibbs , PB $32.95 We think of retirement as something to be celebrated, even envied, a time when you are finally free to do your own thing. But what do people do for twenty or thirty years without the structures and restrictions of work? Does it mean someone is no longer important if they are not an active member of the workforce? Or is retirement a time for reinvention and refocussing? When I’m 64 explores the experience of retirement from the point of view of those not yet retired, those newly retired, and those who are further down the track. Donna Gibbs’ conversations, insights and reflections on her own experiences offer a window into the new retirement with all its contradictions and complexities. With warmth, humour and insight she shows the upsides and downsides, the challenges to your sense of identity and issues for couples and singles. It is an inspiring guide to the ways people deal with this new phase of their lives. BYE-BYE CHARLIE: STORIES FROM THE VANISHING WORLD OF KEW COTTAGES Corinne Manning , PB $39.95 Kew Cottages has long been an iconic symbol for many Australians. Opened in 1887 by the Victorian Government, it was Australia’s first and largest specialised institution for people with intellectual disability. Over its 121-year history, Kew Cottages often struggled to provide a high level of care for its residents. Persistent overcrowding, inadequate funding, and government and public apathy, resulted in many residents enduring lives of hardship and neglect. Bye-Bye Charlie is a rare glimpse into the world of Kew Cottages. Combining oral testimony from a range of people including residents, families, staff, policy makers, and visitors, as well as documentary evidence, it offers a moving account of the path to institutional living, the complex emotions felt by people associated with the institution, and the facility’s eventual closure. Most importantly, it celebrates the lives of people who have long been silenced or forgotten, turning them into active participants of their own history making. BUREAUCRATS AND BLEEDING HEARTS: INDIGENOUS HEALTH IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA Tess Lea , PB $49.95 Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia. Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the look of action, how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it, and how benevolent efforts to improve health have brought about unexpected co-dependencies and tragic failures. She paints a sympathetic yet discomforting portrait of those who, working on behalf of and for Aboriginal health, fiercely defend the ideas and principles that paradoxically reinstate the primary need for greater levels of government intervention. TRAFFICKED Kathleen Maltzahn , PB $19.95 Trafficked tells the story of a rare human rights campaign that succeeded in changing government policy to protect women smuggled into Australia each year to work in the sex trade. In 2003, the Coronial Inquiry into Puongtong Simaplee’s 2001 death at the Villawood Detention Centre put the issue of trafficking for prostitution in Australia on the national agenda for the first time. Trafficked contains first-person accounts of women like Puongtang, stories that inspired women’s groups to make sure trafficked women could no longer be ignored. more ->