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Recommended psychology books (6)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into psychology here are some psychology books from Australia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories--and a terrifying brush with her own mortality--sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who've faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the ... continue

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Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland EN

0 Ratings
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
"When high school senior Henry Page meets Grace Town, he finally experiences the ups and downs of first love"--

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See What You Made Me Do : Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Domestic abuse is a national emergency- one in four Australian women has experienced violence from a man she was intimate with. But too often we ask the wrong question- why didn't she leave? We should be asking- why did he do it? Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators - and the systems that enable them - in the spotlight. See What You Made Me Do is a deep dive into the abuse so many women and children experience - abuse that is often reinforced by the justice system they trust to protect them. Critically, it shows that we can drastically reduce domestic violence - not in generati... continue

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The Sunny Nihilist : A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness by Wendy Syfret EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
An examination of a traditionally pessimistic concept of living that will redefine what we place importance on--and leave us happier because of it. Disillusioned with the search for meaning? If career success, a beautiful life, and a beautiful Instagram account are meant to make us feel safe and happy, why does this generation remain defined by stress, burn out, and obsessive individuality? Award-winning writer Wendy Syfret examines how meaning pervades our modern experience of work, love, religion, and wider society, and asks whether a touch of upbeat nihilism could actually lighten our loads... continue

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Tomorrow when the war began by John Marsden EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
'Compulsively readable' New York Times Somewhere out there Ellie and her friends are hiding. Their country has been invaded. Everyone they know has been captured. Their world has changed overnight. They've got no weapons - except courage. They've got no help - except themselves. They've got nothing - except friendship. How strong could you be, if the world was full of people trying to kill you? Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and Michael Grant - prepare to be hooked by the Tomorrow series.

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What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last 10 years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is 39 years old, a mother of three children and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves. By the author of Three Wishes. 30,000 first printing.