UMSU | Non-fiction

Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin – Margaret Simons 333.91620994 SIM
Red Flag: Waking up to China’s Challenge – Peter Hartcher 327.94051 HAR
The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics – Katharine Murphy 994.072 MUR
The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future – Judith Brett 363.738740094 BRE
The High Road: What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand – Laura Tingle 320.994 TIN
Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference – Luce Irigaray 305.42 IRI
No Country Woman – Zoya Patel 305.42092 PAT
Inferno: A Memoir – Catherine Cho 618.7 CHO
Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours – Sarah Sentilles 362.734092273
The Ghost in the Garden: In Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden – Jude Piesse 576.82092 PIE
My Inner Sky: On Embracing Day, Night and All the Times in Between – Mari Andrew 155.25 AND
Big Friendship – Aminaou Sow 177.62082 SOW
The Comfort Book – Matt Haig 158.1 HAI
So You Think You Know What’s Good For You – Norman Swan 613 SWA
Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma – Guilaine Kinouni 305.8 KIN
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life – Clem Bastow 616.858820092 BAS
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm – Robin DiAngelo 305.8 DIA

Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking Justice – Louise Milligan 362.740922 MIL
Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays – Lauren Hough 289.9 HOU
Relax: A User’s Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety – Timothy Caulfied 613.792 CAU
The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps – Sayragul, Sauytbay & Alexandra Cavelius 305.894345051092 SAU
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide – Anthony Bourdain 910.202 BOU
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari 909 HAR
Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us – Vybarr Cregan-Reid 599.938 CRE
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy – Stephanie Kelton 339.530973 KEL
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock and the Fight to Fit in – Phuc Tran 305.800974843 Tra
Heart Sick – Jessie Stephens 306.73 STE
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 – Rachel Kushner 814.6 KUS
Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength and Women’s Stories Throughout History – Katerina Bryant 616.8524 BRY
The Convict Valley: Bloody Struggle on Australia’s Early Frontier – Mark Dunn 994.4202 DUN
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls – Nina Renata Aron 305.5122 WIL
Resistance – Tori Amos 782.42166 AMO
All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of Colonialism – Tanya Talaga 331.34709541 TAL
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future – Steven Levitsky 321.8 LEV
Just Money: Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap – Royce Kurmelovs 332.02402 KUR
Top End Girl – Miranda Tapsell 791.43028092 TAP
My Year of Living Vulnerably – Rick Morton 928 MOR
The World is Not Big Enough : The Truth is a Foreign Country for a Refugee – Vanessa Russell 325.210994 RUS
Return to Uluru – Mark McKenna 363.232 MACK
Consent: a Memoir – Vanessa Springora 070.5092 SPR
In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia’s response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis – Paul Sendziuk, Robert Reynold & Shirleene Robinson 362.1969792 REY
With the Falling of the Dusk – Stan Grant 909 GRA
When We Become Strangers – Maggie Hamilton 155.92 HAM
The Shape of Sound – Fiona Murphy 305.9092 MUR

The Believer: Encounters With Love, Death and Faith – Sarah Krasnostein 121.68 KRA
Solved! How Other Countries Have Cracked the World’s Biggest Problems and We Can Too – Andrew Wear 303.484 WEA
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution -Carol Hay 305.42 HAY
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights – Helen Lewis 305.420941 LEW
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World – Layla F. Saad 305.8 SAA
The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy – A.C. Grayling 320.441 GRA
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong – Antony Dapiran 322.4095125090512 DAP
Sabotage: The Business of Finance – Anastasia Nesvetailova 332 NES
Growing Up Disabled in Australia – Carly Findlay 362.10994 FIN
The Schoolgirl Strangler – Katherine Kovacic 364.15232092 KOV
The Rome Plague Diaries: Lockdown Life in the Eternal City – Matthew Kneale 614.460945632 KNE
Emotional Female – Yumiko Kadota 617.0592092 KAD
The Neuro Generation: The New Era in Brain Enhancement Revolutionising the Way we Think, Work and Heal – Tan Le 681.761 LE
Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse – Cassandra Pybus 994.6092 PYB

Quarterly Essay 75 Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap by Annabelle Crabb 306.850994 CRA
The Five: The Untold Lives Of The Women Killed By Jack The Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold 364.152320922 RUB
Secret: The Making Of Australia’s Security State by Brian Toohey 320.994 TOO
Who Owns History?: Elgin’s Look And The Case For Returning Plundered Treasure by Geoffrey Robertson 363.69 ROB
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For A Human Future At The New Frontier Of Power by Shosana Zubhoff 306.3 ZUB
Inner Worlds Outer Spaces: The Working Lives Of Others by Ceridwen Dovey 303.4840922 DOV
Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell 302 GLA
This Is Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free by Martin Hagglund 142.78 HAG
The Song Remains The Same: 800 Years Of Love Songs, Laments And Lullabies by Andrew Ford 782.42 FOR
No Worries: A Guide To Managing Anxiety And Worry Using CBT by Sarah Edelman 616.8522 EDE
The Uninhabitable Earth: The Story Of The Future by David Wallace-Wells 363.73874 WAL
Fentanyl, Inc.:How Rogue Chemists Are Creating The Deadliest Wave Of The Opioid Epidemic by Ben Westhoff 362.293 WES
A Better Death: Conversations About The Art Of Living And Dying Well by Ranjana Srivastava 306.9 SRI
The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do And How To Change by Charles Duhigg 158.1 DUH
Breaking And Mending: A Junior Doctor’s Stories Of Compassion And Burnout Joanna Cannon 616.890092 CAN
Restore Refresh Relax: A Companion For Everyday Self-Care by Bethany Patch (Ed.) 613 PAT
White Tears, Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad 305.42 HAM
Finding The Heart Of The Nation: The Journey Of The Uluru Statement Towards Voice, Treaty And Truth by Thomas Mayor 320.51 MAY
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias In A World Designed For Men by Caroline Criado Perez 305.420721 PER
Because Internet: Understanding How Language Is Changing by 302.231 MACC
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke 070.44 CLA
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story Of Genius, Betrayal And Redemption by Ben Mezrich 332.4 MEZ
The Vegan Travel Handbook: An Inspiring And Practical Guide To Vegan-Friendly Travel by Nick Mee (Ed.) 910.202 MEE
How To Have Feminist Sex: A Fairly Graphic Guide by Flo Perry 613.96082 PER
Calm: The Magic Of Sleep by Michael Acton Smith 613.794 SMI
Healthy As F*ck: The 7 Essential Habits You Need To Get Lean, Stay Healthy And Generally Kick Arse At Life by Oonagh Duncan 613.7019 DUN
Sunburnt Country: The History And Future Of Climate Change In Australia by Joelle Gergis 363.73874 GER
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women And Girls by Mona Eltahawy 305.42 ELT
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets And Advice For Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong 792.76028092 WON

Catch And Kill: Lies, Spies And a Conspiracy To Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow 070.43 FAR
11 Explorations Into Life On Earth: Christmas Lectures From The Royal Institution by Helen Scales 576.8 SCA
The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost (Quarterly Essay) by Erik Jensen & Chris Feik (Ed.) 324.294 JEN
It’s Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots by Toby Walsh 006.3 WAL
Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing The Face Of Discovery by Caren Cooper 500 COO
The Growth Delusion: The Wealth And Well-Being Of Nations by David Pilling 338.9 PIL
On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux 917.2 THE
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill 362.82920994 HIL
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante 850.9 FER
Indistractible: How To Control Your Attention And Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal 153.8 EYA
Leading The Way: Inspiring Words For Women by Marianne Schnall 305.42 SCH
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West 305.42 WES
Fixed It: Violence And The Representation Of Women In The Media by Jane Gilmore 362.88082 GIL
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper 286.5092 PHE
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin 909 CAR
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Various 363.70525 FAR
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery 590 MON
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe 324.29405 CRO
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter 321.90922 DIK
How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century by Erik Olin Wright 330.122 WRI
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics : The Hard Right in Australia by Dominic Kelly 320.520994 KEL
Project Rainfall: The Secret History Of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling 355.70994 GIL
Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future by Hemant Taneja and Kevin Maney 338.064 TAN
The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How To Make Connections Others by Dorte Nielsen and Sarah Thurber 153.35 NIE
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach 927 ROA
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1987 by Helen Garner 928 GAR
The Girls: A Memoir of Family, Grief and Sexuality by Chloe Higgins 155.937 HIG
Your Own Kind of Girl: A Memoir by Claire Bowditch 927 BOW
The Horse: A Biography Of Our Noble Steed by Wendy Williams 636.1 WIL
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins by Susan Casey 599.53 CAS

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of – Jared Diamond 303.4 DIA
The White Album – Joan Didion 814.54 DID
Permanent Record – Edward Snowden 327.12730092 SNO
How to Draw Cute Animals – Angela Nguyen 743.6 NGU
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions – Caitlin Doughty 306.9 DOU
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-Word Problem – Randall Munroe 502 MUN
Gotta Get Theroux This – Louis Theroux 070.195 THE
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and – Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles 158.1 GAR
Coventry: Essays – Rachel Cusk 820.8 CUS
Toil and Trouble – Augusten Burroughs 928 BUR
Over the Top – 791.4502 VAN
Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the – 973.93 TOL
The Body: A Guide for Occupants – Bill Bryson 612 BRY
A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother – Rachel Cusk 306.8743 CUS
True Stories and Other Essays – Francis Spufford 820.9 SPU
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet – Jonathan Safran Foer 636 FOE
How to be Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi 305.800973 KEN

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History Of Class In America by Nancy Isenberg 305.560973 ISE
The Courage To Be Happy: True Contentment Is Within Your Power by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi 158.1 KIS
Growing Up Queer In Australia by Benjamin Law (ed.) 306.760994 LAW
Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders 616.075 SAN
Arab, Australian, Other: Stories On Race And Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah (ed.) & Saleh, Sara (ed.) 305.8927094 ABD
Psychedelic Apes: From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs – the Weirdest Theories of Science and History by Alex Boese 500 BOE
Greetings From Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock by Sarfraz Manzoor 942.085092 MAN
On Drugs by Chris Fleming 362.29092 FLE
About Bloody Time: The Menstrual Revolution We Have To Have by Jane Bennett 612.662 PIC
The Bells Of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman 952.135 SHE
2040 by Damon Gameau 640.286 GAM
The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems by Sarah Maddison 305.89915 MAD
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corproate Cover-Ups. One Journalist’s Fight For The Truth. by Adele Ferguson 332.1068 FER
Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities by Peter Seamer 307.116 SEA
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 070.092 WAL
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze 150.195 DEL
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 920 THO

The Baby by Marie Darrieussecq 306.8743 DAR
Upheaval : How Nations Cope With Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond 303.48409 DIA
The Sydney Wars : Conflict in the Early Colony 1788-1817 by Stephen Gapps 994.41 GAP
Growing up African in Australia by Various ( Ed. Maxine Beneba Clarke) 305.896094 CLA
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage : How Australia Got Compulsory Voting by Judith Brett 324.994 BRE
Dr Space Junk vs the Universe : Archaeology and the Future by Alice Gorman 629.4 GOR
Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith 128.33 GOR
You Daughters of Freedom : The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright 324.6230994 WRI
Well-Read Black Girl : Finding our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Various (Ed. Glory Edim) 810.8 EDI
Tunnel vision by Kevin Breathnach 824.92 BRE
Everything is F*cked : a Book About Hope by Mark Manson 158.1 MAN
Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova 782.421660922 TOL
The Fate of Food : What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little 338.19 LIT
Manual for Survival : A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown 363.1799 BRO
The Full Catastrophe: Stories From When Life Was So Bad It Was Funny by Various (Ed. Rebecca Huntley) 920.0994 HUN
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist and our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb 616.8914092 GOT
Daily Rituals : Women at Work by Mason Currey 704.04201 CUR
Adventures of a Young Naturalist : The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough 591.9 ATT
Furious Hours : Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep 364.15232092 CEP
Shout : The True Story of a Survivor Who Refused to be Silenced by Laurie Halse Anderson 362.883092 AND
How Death Becomes Life by Joshua Mezrich 617.954092 MEZ
Naturally Tan by Tan France 791.45028092 FRA
No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg 363.7 THU
The Book That Changed America : How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited A Nation by Randall Fuller 576.82 FUL
No Waste Kitchen by Giovanna Torrico 641.552 TOR
Sorting the Beef From the Bull by Richard Evershed 664.07 EVE
Weed: Everything You Want To Know But Are Always Too Stoned To Ask Michelle Lhooq 633.79 LHO
The Songs of Trees: Stories From Nature’s Great Connectors by David George Haskell 577.3 HAS
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt by John Grindrod 333.76160941 GRI
The Way of Science : Finding Truth and Meaning in a Scientific Worldview by Dennis R. Trumble 501 TRU
The Water Will Come : Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell 551.458 GOO
A Naturalist Goes Fishing : Casting in Fragile Waters From the Gulf of Mexico to New Zealand’s South Island James McClintock 799.1 MACC
From Here to Infinity : a Vision for the Future of Science by Martin Rees 500 REE
Lowborn :Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson 362.5092 HUD
The Gospel of Trees : A Memoir by Apricot Irving 266.0092 IRV
The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory : A Memoir by Corey White 792.7028092 WHI
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 306.70922 TAD
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby 814.6 IRB
Fake : A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie Wood 306.893092 WOO
Bowraville by Dan Box 364.9944 BOX
The War for Kindness by Jamil Zaki 152.41 ZAK
The Socialist Manifesto : The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara 335.43 SUN
A Stolen Life : The Bruce Trevorrow Case by Antonio Buti 346.94018 BUT
Mandatory Murder :A True Story of Homicide and Injustice in an Outback Town by Steven Schubert 364.1523099429 SCH
Four Fish : The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg 333.956 GRE
Australia Fair : Listen to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley 300.994 HUN

Let Her Fly: A Father’s Journey and the Fight for Equality by Ziauddin Yousafzai 370.92 YOU
Dissent: Student Press in 1960’s Australia by Sally Percival Wood 378.19810994 WOO
We are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai 325.21 YOU
Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp by David Sornig 994.51 SOR
Welcome to my Country by Kate Lloyd, Sandie Suchet-Pearson & Sarah Wright 994.295 BUR
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos (ed.) 950 MAS
Witches: What Women do Together by Sam George-Allen 650.13 GEO
Choice words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion by Louise Swinn(ed.) 363.460994 SWI
Imperfect: How Our Bodies Shape the People We Become by Lee Kofman 306.4613 KOF
Blitzed by Norman Ohler 362.2930943 OHL
There will be no miracles here by Casey Gerald 976.42812064092 GER
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught me by Janet Mock 306.768 MOC
Stress Less: Proven Methods to Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety and Lift Your Mood by Matthew Johnstone and Michael Player 155.9042 JOH
The 30-day Money Cleanse: Take Control of Your Finances, Manage Your Spending, and De-stress Your Money for Good by Ashley Feinstein Gerstley 332.024 GER
Questions I am Asked About the Holocaust by Hédi Fried 940.5318092 FRI
Digital Minimalism: On Living Better With Less Technology by Cal Newport 303.4833 NEW
Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age: Quarterly Essay 72 by Sebastian Smee 302.231 SME
Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case by Helen Thomas 364.15230994 THO
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf 302.4 MAA
Cardinal: the Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan 282.092 MIL
Zealot: a Book about Cults by Jo Thornely 299.93 THO
It’s Not About the Burqua by Mariam Khan 305.48697 KHA

Troll Hunting: Inside The World Of Online Hate And Its Human Fallout by Ginger Gorman 302.34302854678 GOR
Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro 305.4209 CAR
Say Hello by Carly Findlay 616.5440092 FIN
The Joyful Frugalista by Serina Bird 332.024 BIR
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss 813.0099283 MOS
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land 331.4816 LAN
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship by Joan Beaumont(ed.) 355.00899915094 BEA
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson 363.738746 ROB
Betraying Big Brother: the Feminist Awakening in China by Leta Hong Fincher 305.420951 FIN
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon 305.896073 LAY
Breaking and Entering: the Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien” by Jeremy N. Smith 005.8092 SMI
Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths 994.01 GRI

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