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Publication details of all the books reviewed

Bob Adamson: Waving to Hart Crane
J.G. Ballard: Running Wild
Marius Benson: Now is the Time: A personal account of South Africa's historic transition from apartheid to democracy
Michael Dargaville: Poems
Geoffrey Dean: The Australian Short Story
Bret Easton Ellis: The Informers
Richard Flanagan talks about 'Death of a River Guide'
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Emma Gilbey: The Lady: the life and times of Winnie Mandela
Robert J. Groden: JFK: The Killing of a President
Winston Groom: Forrest Gump
Anton Harber & Barbara Ludman: A-Z of South African Politics
Jack Kerouac: Good Blonde
Gabrielle Lord: Bones
Blake Nelson: Girl
Poetry in motion
G. W. Robinson: 'The Horseman'
Douglas Rushkoff: Cyberia: life in the trenches of cyberspace
Hunter S. Thompson: Better than sex: confessions of a political junkie trapped like a rat in Mr. Bill's neighborhood
Tobias Wolff: In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of a lost war
Unfolding: AIDS quilt projects
The Stranger inside
Suppressed inventions
Survivors of abuse
Writing in South Africa

 




  • CAN YOU GROK CYBERIA?

    Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
    London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1984 (1993 reprint)
    ISBN 0-586-06645-4
    A$12.95 NZ$15.95 UK 4.99
    Keywords: Cyber Politics / Fiction / Non-fiction

  • Cyberia: life in the trenches of cyberspace, by Douglas Rushkoff.
    London: Flamingo / HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
    ISBN 0-00-654792-3
    $A16.95, £ 6.99
    Keywords: Cyber Politics / Fiction / Non-fiction


  • CATCH-CRIES OF THE WRY

    Girl, by Blake Nelson.
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
    ISBN 0-671-89707-1.
    A$12.95, US$11.00, C$14.50
    Keywords: Fiction


  • DEJA VU DETECTION: IT'S IS ALL IN THE MIND

    Bones, by Gabrielle Lord.
    Ringwood VIC.:
    McPhee Gribble, 1995.
    ISBN 0-86914-359-X
    A$19.95
    Keywords: Crime Fiction


  • ENTERING THE NEW CENTURY THROUGH GLASS' - the poetry of Bob Adamson

    Waving to Hart Crane, by Robert Adamson.
    Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1994.
    ISSN 0 207 18347 3
    A$ 16.95
    Keywords: Poetry


  • EROTICA A LA CARTE HALF-BAKED

    The stranger inside: an erotic adventure procured by Red Symons, written by ... Jean Bedford, Jennifer Byrne, Bryce Courtenay, Peter Goldsworthy, Gwen Harwood, Mark Henshaw, Gabrielle Lord, Steve J. Spears, Red Symons, (and) Lee Tulloch.
    Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company, 1994.
    ISBN 1-875847-05-7
    $A16.95


  • FREUDIAN FRAUD AND THE DEMONISATION OF UNWANTED INNOVATORS

    Suppressed inventions and other discoveries, by Dr Brian O'Leary, Christopher Bird, Jeane Manning, Barry Lynes and others, edited by Jonathan Eisen.
    Auckland NZ: Auckland Institute of Technology Press, 1994.
    ISBN 0 9583334 7 5
    A$29.95.
    Keywords: Conspiracy Theories / Science


  • JFK - CONSIDER YOUR VERDICT

    The killing of a president: the complete photographic record of the JFK assassination, the conspiracy, and the cover-up, by Robert J. Groden.
    London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
    ISBN 0-7475-1621-9
    A$29.95 £20
    Keywords: History/Conspiracy Theories


  • JUICING UP THE BIOSPHERE

    O.J. Simpson: American hero, American tragedy, by Marc Cerasin.
    Pinnacle. A$9.95, £3.99.
    &
    Nicole Brown Simpson: the private diary of a life interrupted, by Faye D. Resnick and Mike Walker.
    Signet. A$12.95.
    Keywords: Tabloid Biography


  • POETRY IN MOTION

    Poetry in motion, produced and directed by Ron Mann.
    Voyager Co, 1992
    ISBN 1 55940 188 5
    A$47.95
    Keywords: Poetry


  • RELUCTANT WARRIOR

    In Pharaoh's army: memories of a lost war, by Tobias Wolff.
    London: Bloomsbury, 1994.
    ISBN 0 7475 1919 6
    A$24.95, £12.99
    Keywords: Autobiography


  • RETURN TO PSYCHO CITY: NO ANGELS IN L.A.

    The Informers, by Bret Easton Ellis.
    London: Picador, 1994.
    ISBN 0-330-32671-6
    A$22.95,££9.99


  • ROAD GANG STILL LEADS THE PACK

    Good blonde & others, by Jack Kerouac,
    edited by Donald Allen, preface by Robert Creeley. San Francisco:
    Grey Fox Press, 1993.
    ISBN 0-912516-22-4.
    A$24.95


  • SOMETIMES THERE JUST AIN'T ENOUGH STONES

    Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom.
    London: Black Swan, 1994
    ISBN 0-552-99609-2
    A$14.95


  • UN-WOUNDING THE HEART: HOPE FOR ADULT VICTIMS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE

    A safe place to begin: working to recover from childhood sexual abuse, by Rex Bradley and Caroline Johnson-Marshall.
    San Francisco: Thorsons, 1993.
    ISBN 0-7225-2723-3

    Beyond closed doors: growing beyond an abused childhood, by John Andrews. Ringwood, VIC.: David Lovell Publishing, 199- ISBN 1 86355 044 5

    Victim, survivor, celebrant: the healing journey from childhood sexual abuse, by Roberta Nobleman.
    St. Meinrad, Indiana: One Caring Place / Abbey Press, 1994
    ISBN 0-87029-249-8.
    US$12.95

    The wounded heart: hope for adult victims of childhood
    sexual abuse, by Dr Dan B. Allender. Farnham, Surrey: CWR, 1991.
    ISBN 1-85345-045-6.
    A$24.95
    Keywords: Mental Health/Self-help




  • CAN YOU HANG TEN IN CYBERSPACE BY BOOK - Internet books and online resources to get you up to speed on the Internet, reviewed by Anne Kellas
    (This book review is no longer online)

    1. The Internet Navigator: the essential guide to network exploration for the individual dial-up user, by Paul Gilster. 2nd ed.
      New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1994.
      ISBN 0 471 05260 4
    2. Finding it on the Internet: the essential guide to archie, Veronica, Gopher, WAIS, WWW (including Mosaic), and other search and browsing tools, by Paul Gilster
      New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1994
      ISBN 0 471 03857 1
    3. THE WHOLE INTERNET USER'S GUIDE & CATALOG, by Ed Krol.
      2nd ed. O'Reilly & Assoc., 1994.
      ISBN 1-56592-063-5
      A$49.95
    4. INTERNET-ON-A-DISK
      B&R Samizdat Express, PO Box 161, West Roxbury, MA 02132.
      samizdat@world.std.com
    5. JOHN DECEMBER'S LISTS
      http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/text.html


    Keywords: Cyber book reviews