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The Bird Way: A new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think by Jennifer Ackerman
by Simon Caterson •
Sky Swimming: Reflection on auto/biography, people and place by Sylvia Martin
by Sarah Walker •
What’s Wrong with Economics?: A primer for the perplexed by Robert Skidelsky
by John Tang •
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews changed the world, 1847–1947 by Norman Lebrecht
by Tali Lavi •
The Morals of the Market: Human rights and the rise of neoliberalism by Jessica Whyte
by Benjamin Huf •
A curse on art, a curse on society: Government contempt for the ABC, the arts, and the academy
by James Ley •
It is curious the way certain books can insinuate themselves into your consciousness. I am not necessarily talking about favourite books, or formative ones that evoke a particular time and place, but those stray books that seem to have been acquired almost inadvertently (all bibliophiles possess such volumes, I’m sure), and taken up without any particular expectations, books that have something intriguing about them that keeps drawing you back.
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