Listening is the simplest skill we ignore - and the one that changes everything.In our noisy world, journalist Kate Murphy reminds us that listening is the key to understanding and to deeper connection. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology and interviews with experts - from CIA interrogators to priests and bartenders - she reveals how true listening strengthens relationships, creativity and empathy.You’re Not Listening is both a pra...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOU'RE NOT LISTENINGHave you ever met someone and felt an immediate connection? Are there people in your life who always seem to lift your spirits, while others just as reliably drag you down? Do people actually emit vibes? Are bad habits contagious?In Why We Click, bestselling author Kate Murphy explores the emerging science of interpersonal synchrony – the mos...

Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary Somerville (Director of School Broadcasti...

From its beginnings Monash has been a 'university in a hurry.' Born on the suburban fringe of Melbourne, it reached outwards rather than gazing inwards. Over its five decades it embraced the challenges of the age of Sputnik, became a hotbed of student radicalism, then took an equally radical turn towards market capitalism to become Australia's largest and most international university, with branches in Italy, Malaysia and South Africa.Its movers and shakers included visionary vice-...

Brought to you by Penguin.When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?This life-changing book will transform your conversations foreverAs a society, we’ve forgotten how to listen. Modern life is noisy and frenetic, and technology provides constant distraction. So we tune things out or listen selectively – even to those we love most. We’ve become scared of other people’s...

Brought to you by Penguin.*FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOU'RE NOT LISTENINGWhy do you immediately click with some people while others inexplicably turn you off? Do people emit vibes – good or bad? Is it possible to read a room? Are bad habits contagious?*The hidden science of why people click, and how this powerful phenomenon shapes our lives.In Why We Click, bestselling author Kate...

Brought to you by Penguin.*FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF YOU'RE NOT LISTENINGWhy do you immediately click with some people while others inexplicably turn you off? Do people emit vibes – good or bad? Is it possible to read a room? Are bad habits contagious?*The hidden science of why people click, and how this powerful phenomenon shapes our lives.In Why We Click, bestselling author Kate...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In 1910 three-quarters of the populati...

"What might have been a forbidding chronological slog is thoroughly enlivened by Conboy′s thematic approach, shot through with passion and rigour in equal measure. This is a book written with a commitment to the importance of history for the present; it will undeniably cultivate the same commitment in its readers."- Chris Atton, Edinburgh Napier University"An authoritative and accessible introduction to the history of journalism. Excellent resource ...

The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'.Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come from? And what makes a person middle class today?Although the...

Fighting Hard tells a history of the Aborigines Advancement League, the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia. As both a welfare and activist body, the League can be seen as the 'mother' of all Aboriginal Victorian community organisations, having spawned a diverse range of organisations.The League influenced the fight for civil rights and took a stand against the government's assimilation policy. Its activism with government and the United Nations predates the better...

The award-winning biography of one of Australia's best-loved writers ... The author of MY BRILLAINT CAREER had a fascinating career of her own ... Winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Non-Fiction 2010'a long-awaited and splendidly breezy blockbuster biography of the indefatigable, self-inventing and campaigning author of My Brilliant Career' Richard Holmes, AUStRALIAN BOOK REVIEW 'to meet Miles Franklin was as invigorating as to ride on a spring morning across th...