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KENNEDY, David

Jun 29, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel, Historical Fiction, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, Western Australia

Charles Washing & Racist Furniture Self-Published by David Kennedy
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ISBN 978-1-922629-96-8
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Charles Washing & Racist Furniture

The history of Charles Washing, his family, and furniture business is fascinating reading. The plight of Charlie’s parents, a full-blood Chinaman and an 18-year-old English Jewess in the 1850’s, escaping their respective homelands and settling in Ararat, Victoria, is difficult to comprehend, but it’s true. Raising 10 kids against the odds, we follow the journey to Creswick, Melbourne and finally Perth where their sons, driven by Charles set up Washing Brothers Furniture Factory. The Factories Act was a desperate attempt by the Government to eradicate Asiatic businesses pressured by Unions and European businessmen. To survive meant risking everything by breaking the law, dodging government inspectors, and even beating the Supreme Court. It was the birth of racist furniture.

BANGERZ, Mash

Mar 26, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Western Australia
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Africaining A Gory Glory Morning 

What do you get when varying elements of human society have taken diverging paths leaving its tree root to dehydrate while a malicious leading light is attacking the fragile leaf foliage giving humanity’s trunk life threatening hemorrhage? Will an adventurous competing parasite find a sufficient sized bandage to cover all damaged cells? What outcome will prevail?

El Shoetef is captured in the common wealth driven world of the early 2000s where political correctness propagating zealous moralists are using digitised egocentric driven narcissism to justify eradication of independent critical opinions.

One day he manages to escape towards Africa which harbours a society lacking the luxury of being narrow minded munchkins. However another evil is awaiting. And it has already laid interest on others with a growing revengeful hunger. The chase for salvation is on! Will there be a day with no morning…?

COOPER, David

Nov 9, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Fiction \ Novel, Science Fiction, Western Australia

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts
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ISBN 978-1-922452-71-9 PAPERBACK

Nova Sapiens

Kasih is a robotic child drawn into a project to discover her secrets, and into a war that threatens all humanity, including her own.

The murder of her family by Union troops in Bandung leaves the rebels’ robotics experts, Losana Maraiwai and Wei Dingxiang, with nobody to explain Kasih’s design but Kasih herself.

She is not what anyone expected. In Darwin, Dingxiang suspects a magic trick may explain away her human-like artificial intelligence. In Beijing, Union politician Gabriel da Costa fears an extinction-level technology. Both sides of the war see a weapon that might win it. But Kasih is not strong, fast, or even particularly coordinated. She tries in vain to make sense of her father’s death, and of a world ready to dismantle her and repurpose her technology. And she cannot escape the Union’s plans.

The rebels, including Kasih’s original rescuers, Paul Kanner and Debra Hall, are powerless in the face of a new army of robotic soldiers based on her design. The Union has created monsters, whose cold efficiency unleashes wholesale destruction. They threaten the world’s only chance for freedom, and perhaps its very survival.

Neither Kasih nor Dingxiang understand why Kasih herself is not like them. Kasih must fight back against the fate others have determined for her, and for the world, and Dingxiang needs her ingenuity to solve the very conundrum that her existence represents. For Kasih to save her human friends, she must help them destroy her own kind.

O’HARA, PAUL

Oct 27, 2020 | *Featured books, *listed, Philosophy, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-922452-95-5

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The Limits of Knowledge

 

A METAPHYSICAL STUDY

This is a wide-ranging work which blends continental and scholastic themes, questions regarding universality, individuation, abstraction, together with more contemporary topics such as the relation between time and space, space and matter. It also addresses the question how Darwinism has influenced our understanding of the relation between artistic design and the processes of nature.

WILDE, Diana

Aug 11, 2020 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Design, Memoir, Western Australia

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ISBN 978-1-922452-98-6
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I Don’t Wear Step-Ins Anymore.

A step-in or girdle was worn in the 50s and 60s to control the flab of a female body. Dianne escaped the control of a conservative and Christian middle class family in Sydney and sailed to England in 1968. On arrival, she disposed of her constrictive clothing and began living a swinging London life. A year later, and after a visit from her parents, she moved to a Swiss Village for 6 months. Finally, she travelled home overland by Sundowners bus from London to India in 1970.

This memoir is from letters documenting her overseas journey of discovery. In January 2012 aged 64, she re-read and transcribed at least 300 letters and aerogrammes, after being told by an older cousin, she had been adopted at birth. She re-discovered the controlling mother she couldn’t stand growing up, and even while bringing up a family of her own.

Her adoptive mother Ruby was the one who gave her back all the letters written to her, suggesting she may wish to write a book one day about her travels. This memoir is a homage to her, and also to her adoptive father George, who constantly encouraged her to take off the step-ins and try everything in life.