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What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee

Building upon his previous empirical critiques, Tom Slee explains how ‘sharing economy’ companies have used feel-good rhetoric to mask illiberal and irresponsible business models.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

The Sharing Economy frames its critics as Luddites, bureaucrats and rent-seekers, but Tom Slee is none of these. A thoughtful technologist, Slee paints a well-researched picture of companies that have built up massive market valuations by externalising their costs and sidestepping regulations designed to protect consumers. This book is clear-eyed and important.
Sue Gardner, Former Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Superbly argued … Slee points out, rightly, that his arguments are not about whether he or his readers actually use these services … there is no contradiction in taking an Uber home from a party while wishing the company were better behaved. Only the law can force it to be so.
Steven Poole, The Guardian

Tom Slee’s essential new book shows that the sharing economy has very little to do with sharing. Slee uses wit, clarity, and facts to demolish the self-serving mythologies of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and figure out what Uber, Amazon and their kind are really up to.
Henry Farrell, Co-Chair, Social Science Research Council’s Digital Culture Initiative; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University.

A smart and searing critique of a business that people are only just beginning to think about in a serious way.
The Spectator

Lucid and rigorous … Slee dismantles the facade of the sharing economy, revealing hidden and often troubling truths ... If you want to understand how internet businesses really operate, What’s Yours Is Mine is the place to start.
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows

Laser-sharp insights about the real impact of popular start-ups on our livelihoods and communities … Required reading for anyone interested in technology and economic justice.
Astra Taylor, Author of The People's Platform

The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally by Jason Fung

Clear and utterly convincing, this book deserves to be widely read.
Dr Michael Mosley, Author of The 8-Week Sugar Diet

In this terrific and hopeful book Dr. Fung teaches you everything you need to know about how to reverse type 2 diabetes. It could change the world.
Dr Andreas Eenfeldt, Author of Low Carb, High Fat Food Revolution

With rich scientific support, Dr. Jason Fung has sounded a clarion call to re-evaluate how we view and treat diabetes. Considering that roughly half of all adults worldwide are diabetic or on their way (pre-diabetes), The Diabetes Code is essential reading.
Dr Benjamin Bikman, Professor of Physiology, Brigham Young University

The Diabetes Code is unabashedly provocative yet practical … a clear blueprint for everyone to take control of their blood sugar, their health, and their lives.
Dr Will Cole, Leading Functional Medicine Practitioner, Senior Clinical Director at Cole Natural Health Centers

Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with the right combination of diet and lifestyle — you can reclaim your health and vitality. Dr. Fung will teach you how.
Amy Berger, Author of The Alzheimer's Antidote

The Diabetes Code should be on the bookshelf of every physician.
Dr Carrie Diulus, Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Medical Director at Crystal Clinic Spine Wellness Center

The Diabetes Code clears the fog around Type 2 Diabetes and underscores that for most people, it is preventable or reversible.
Dr Karim Khan, Editor of British Journal of Sports Medicine

Dr. Jason Fung has done it again. In easy to follow, simple steps and rules, Dr. Fung gives you the tools to rid yourself of Diabetes forever. Get this book!
Steven R Gundry MD, Author of The Plant Paradox

Giovanna's Navel by Ernest van der Kwast, Laura Vroomen

The funniest and most moving book I have read this year.
Herman Koch, Author of The Dinner

Ernest van der Kwast is a shameless romantic, I loved his stories.
Tommy Wieringa, Author of A Beautiful Young Wife

The Boy from Baradine by Craig Emerson

A shockingly personal, honest, and compelling reflection on an extraordinary Australian life. Containing brilliant insights from the early Hawke reforms to the end of Rudd, this is a most revealing Australian political autobiography, from one of Australia’s wisest and most thoughtful public-policy economists.
Ross Garnaut

As a politician, Craig Emerson demonstrated rare emotion for a person in such a hard-nosed game: genuinely heartfelt passion for fairness and justice, and a visceral empathy and compassion for others. As a colleague, I valued Craig's humanity as well as his intellect and command of economics.

In his book, we discover the origins of these qualities: from the graphic retelling of childhood experiences in a troubled household in outback New South Wales, to the corridors of Parliament House in the service of prime minister Bob Hawke, and onto the international stage as Australia's trade minister.
Greg Combet

This gritty, compassionate account takes us to the epicentre of the big environmental conflicts of the day: Antarctica, Tasmania’s forests and Kakadu. A must read.
Peter Garrett

This is a refreshingly frank – and at times gut-wrenching – account of an unlikely political life, driven by Craig’s own experiences and his ambition to try to create a better world. If only there were more politicians with the guts to be so honest.
Geogg Kitney

One of the most detailed and illuminating books about the exercise of power in Canberra that I have so far had the pleasure of reading. Emerson has produced a highly engaging, compassionate and empathetic account of his sometimes stellar, sometimes dispiriting career, and of the political world that he inhabited for so long.
Ross Fitzgerald, Weekend Australian

This memoir is an exciting, honest and sometimes raw tale of public life, lived with enthusiasm, dedication and a take-no-prisoners attitude.
Courier Mail

It is a deeply human tale of trauma and triumph, of fear and fine, of character overcoming adversity. It will also inspire young people that it is possible to succeed from the most unlikely of personal circumstances.
Coonabarabran Times

We Are Here: talking with Australia's oldest Holocaust survivors by Fiona Harari

Fiona Harari’s We Are Here: Talking with Australia’s Oldest Holocaust Survivors is a welcome addition to the body of knowledge about one of history’s greatest crimes … Not only are these stories of the horrors of the concentration and labour camps, but they are an assertion, a shout of triumph, We Are Here,we made it when you didn’t expect us to and some of us have even had good lives.
Sydney Morning Herald

The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook

‘Preacher Dob said, Vengeance belongs to the Lord, Samantha. She said, Only if he can beat me to it.’ This told me everything I needed to know about Samantha Shreve, a character who knocked my socks off from her first appearance on the page. This book is the stuff of legends, tales told for a hundred years around Texas campfires. Written in a form that is historically accurate and yet feels painstakingly intimate, The Which Way Tree is unlike anything I’ve read before.’
Attica Locke, Author of Bluebird, Bluebird

Elizabeth Crook has created a book of marvels. Its comedy is steeped in the hardscrabble tragedies of a wilder old America. You will even catch an echo of Twain’s wit in the picaresque narration.
Luis Alberto Urrea, Author of The US National Bestseller The Hummingbird's Daughter

A small-scale masterwork, richly detailed and beautifully rendered.
S.C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon

Not since True Grit have I read a novel as charming, exciting, suspenseful, and pitch-perfect as The Which Way Tree. Elizabeth Crook’s new book is winning from first page to last.
Ron Hansen, Author of The Kid, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

When I began to read this book its unique voice appealed to me immediately. Elizabeth Crook has written a beautiful novel with wonderful characters.
Robert Duvall

In The Which Way Tree, Elizabeth Crook has conjured a powerful, sly, and often charming tale delivered in the winning voice of Benjamin. This novel is a fast-paced story resonating with rich characters and mythic elements that come to us as folklore that mustn't be doubted.
Daniel Woodrell, Author of Winter's Bone, and The Maid's Version

This is a story of unremitting deprivation allayed by unexpected kindness, with a dangerous chase motivated by love and suffused with humanity.
Booklist

Poignant and plainspoken … Crook crafts Benjamin's narration beautifully, finding a winning balance between naiveté and wisdom, thoughtfulness and grit.
Publisher’s Weekly

Readers new to the Western genre will be hooked if they start with this compelling novel.
Library Journal

The Which Way Tree is one part Track of the Cat, one part True Grit, and one part Tom Sawyer, a ruthless pedigree for a novel that displays human nature in its most beautiful form — a marvel.
Craig Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The Western Star

Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Barbara Barron-Tieger, Paul D. Tieger

A revolutionary way of finding the right job. Every job hunter or career changer needs this book.
Kevin Harrington, Career Services, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Offers an easy way to discover some extremely useful information about your Personality Type. When you are armed with this new self-awareness, the directions toward your own job and career satisfaction become clear.
William Corwin, Office of Career Services, Princeton University

This is one of the most popular career books in the world. It's easy to see why. Many have found great help from the concept of Personality Type, and Tieger and Barron are masters at explaining this approach to career choice. Highly recommended.
Richard N. Bolles, Author of What Color is Your Parachute?

The Whole Brain Diet: the microbiome solution to heal depression, anxiety, and mental fog without prescription drugs by Raphael Kellman

After decades of treating patients for depression, gastrointestinal problems, low thyroid, and a multitude of other ‘mysterious’ ailments, pioneer in holistic and functional medicine Dr. Raphael Kellman has connected the dots between the brain, the gut, the microbiome, and the thyroid. The Whole Brain Diet offers his groundbreaking plan to diminish anxiety and depression—and to give you more energy and vitality.
Izabella Wentz, PHARMD, FASCP, #1 bestselling author of Hasimoto’s Protocol

With depression affecting more than 300 million people worldwide, a path to healing that takes into account multiple factors is long overdue. In The Whole Brain Diet, Dr. Raphael Kellman shares his groundbreaking research, showing the intimate connections between the gut, microbriome, thyroid, and brain, and then offers a proven, holistic plan that doesn’t rely on prescription medication.
Mark Hyman, MD, Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine, the founder of The Ultrawellness Center

Dr. Kellman has long been on the cutting-edge of health and science. Now, he introduces his groundbreaking concept of The Whole Brain Diet: If you want to improve brain function — if you want your mind to be focused, your memory to be sharp, and your mood to be hopeful—start with a healthier microbiome, heal your gut, and balance your thyroid. This book will show you how.
Dr. Terry Wahls, author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions

Dr. Kellman has identified an interconnected system of organs he calls ‘The Whole Brain.’ He teaches you to control your anxiety, depression, and chronic fatigue starting with the microscopic world and working your way up from there. The Whole Brain Diet=i> offers both a profound message and practical tools to own your mental states without medication. Highly recommended.
Dave Asprey, founder and CEO of Bulletproof

Kellman is a rare kind of doctor. An innovative functional medicine physician? Indeed, he is that — but he helps his patients heal with the spiritual wisdom of a Rabbi. His latest book, The Whole Brain Diet, connects the dots between your gut, microbiome, thyroid, and brain. Not only does it present actionable lifestyle remedies to help you heal physically and mentally, it also offers a deeply spiritual understanding of the will to heal.
Donna Gates, author of The Body Ecology Diet

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by Daniel Chamovitz

The original 2012 version of this mind-bending romp through the vegetable kingdom was a huge hit, and this extensively updated second edition delivers even more of a good thing. Humorous, engaging and endlessly surprising, Chamovtiz's tale makes plants seem so intriguing and so intensely alive (as opposed to just sitting-there alive) that it almost makes you want to stop eating salad.
Popular Science

He analyses the intriguing parallels between plant and human senses in chapters devoted to what a plant sees, smells, feels, hears and remembers. It gives a whole new meaning to forget-me-nots.
Herald Sun

… an entertaining trot through current research into plant sensitivity.
Sydney Morning Herald

Chamovitz walks the Homo sapiens reader right into the shoes — or I should say roots — of the plant world. After reading this book you will never again walk innocently past a plant or reach insensitively for a leaf. You will marvel and be haunted by a plant's sensory attributes and the shared genes between the plant and animals kingdoms.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

What a Plant Knows is lively, eloquent, scientifically accurate, and easy to read. I commend this engaging text to all who wonder about life on earth and seek a compelling introduction to the lives of plants as revealed through centuries of careful scientific experimentation.
Professor Stephen D. Hopper, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

A fascinating book that explores accessibly the evidence that plants share more properties with animals than most people appreciate. It may come as a relief to vegetarians to learn that plants do not feel pain or suffer, in the human sense, when harvested. Nevertheless, after reading What a Plant Knows, we wanted to apologise to our daffodils for the times when our shadows have shielded them from the Sun.
John and Mary Gribbin, authors of The Flower Hunters

By comparing human senses to the abilities of plants to adapt to their surroundings, the author provides a fascinating and logical explanation of how plants survive despite the inability to move from one site to another. Backed by new research on plant biology, this is an intriguing look at a plant's consciousness.
Kirkus

The reader … will find enough absorbing science to concede that plants continue to inspire and amaze us. It's time, as Joni Mitchell sang at Woodstock, 'to get ourselves back to the garden' and take a closer look at plants.
The Wall Street Journal

This elegantly written account of plant biology will change the way you see your garden … Chamovitz lets us see plants in a new light, one which reveals their true wonder.
The Guardian

Thick with eccentric plant experiments and astonishing plant science.
Sunday TimesUK

Like us, a plant that aspires to win the rat race must exploit its environment. Even a daffodil can detect when you're standing in its light, and a rhododendron knows when you're savaging its neighbor with the pruning shears. With deftness and clarity, Daniel Chamovitz introduces plants' equivalent of our senses, plus floral forms of memory and orientation. When you realise how much plants know, you may think twice before you bite them.
Hannah Holmes, author of Quirk and Suburban Safari

Just as his groundbreaking research uncovered connections between the plant – and animal kingdoms, Daniel Chamovitz’s insights in What a Plant Knows transcend the world of plants. This entertaining and educational book is filled with wondrous examples that underscore how the legacy of shared genomes enables plants and animals to respond to their environments. You'll see plants in a new light after reading What a Plant Knows.
Gloria M. Coruzzi, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University

If you’ve ever marveled at how and why plants make the choices they do, What a Plant Knows holds your answer. Chamovitz is a master at translating the science of botany into the language of the layman.
Michael Malice, author, subject of Ego & Hubris, and Succulent Enthusiast

Plants may be brainless, eyeless and devoid of senses as we know them, but they have a rudimentary ‘awareness’, says biologist Daniel Chamovitz. In this beautiful reframing of the botanical, he reveals the extent and kind of that awareness through a bumper crop of research.
Nature

For everyone who has wondered at Mimosa, the suddenly snapping Venus flytrap or the way a sunflower's head unerringly turns to follow the sun, Daniel Chamovitz has written the perfect book.
American Scientist

[A] fascinating inside look at what a plant's life is like, and a new lens on our own place in nature.
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions by Amy Stewart

Perfect for book groups.
Booklist

Constance's ability to hold her own in male-dominated investigations and courtrooms, as well as her determination to present the facts, makes her a welcome ‘vision of an entirely different kind of woman’, hopefully with more tales to come. Lively and admirable female characters emboldened by their circumstances, impeccably realized and given new life by Stewart.
Kirkus

The cases here are based on the experiences of real women, a technique that Stewart has employed in previous volumes. Collectively, the story lines intersect to create an intriguing window into women's rights and the social mores that women challenged on the eve of World War I. VERDICT A lovely addition for series fans and aficionados of historical fiction.
Library Journal

Stewart’s third novel in her clever and original Kopp Sisters series continues the thorn adventures of Constance Kopp.
Publishers Weekly

As with its predecessors, the appealing central character hooks us in to a lively, absorbing story that happens to be (mostly) true.
Sunday Herald

[A] quirky crime-busting outing … An original, often funny, historical fiction series.
Weekend Sport