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Babies of the Rose by Justin Smith
Category: Fiction
James Kite is a Vietnam veteran. Hes alone and at the end of his life, haunted by his role in the death of a mentally disabled Vietnamese boy during the War. [new [para] Grace Moore spent her teenage years hiding her body before becoming a plus size model and getting the attention shed always craved. Af ...Show more
Cooper Not Out by Justin Smith
Category: Fiction
This summer, an unlikely hero is about to rewrite history. It's the summer of 1984, the West Indian cricket team is touring Australia, and the Aussies are getting flogged. Then, a very unlikely hero steps up to the crease... Sergeant Roy Cooper is a country policeman in the small country town of Pengui ...Show more
Good As Gold by Justin Smith
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Cooper Not Out comes a delightfully comic novel set in the Melbourne Goldrush era that reimagines the running of the inaugural Melbourne Cup. Some stories are too good to be true ... In the year 1861, there were three campfires burning outside the gold mining town of Mull C ...Show more
Irrationality: A History ... Dark Side by Justin E. H. Smith
Category: Non-Fiction
A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationality Itâe(tm)s a story we canâe(tm)t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenme ...Show more
Irrationality - A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith
Category: Philosophy
From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us--and always will be In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality m ...Show more
The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology by Tim Murray; Bronwyn Woff; Kristal Buckley; Sarah Hayes; Geoff Hewitt; Justin McCarthy; Richard Mackay; Barbara Minchinton; Charlotte Smith; Jeremy Smith
Category: Australiana | Series: Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology Ser.
The stereotype of 'slumdom' defined 'Little Lon' in the minds of Melbournians, and became entrenched in Australian literature and popular culture. The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne tells a different story. This ground-breaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonw ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
Category: History | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
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