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Book reviews by Gillian Dooley for The Adelaide Review.
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Item Review of 'Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tintner' by Tanya Buchdahl Tintner.(Adelaide Review, 2011-05) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of 'Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tintner' by Tanya Buchdahl Tintner.Item Review of 'Counterpoint' by Anna Enquist(Adelaide Review, 2010-04) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of Anna Enquist's novel, 'Counterpoint'.Item Review of 'Time's Long Ruin' by Stephen Orr.(Adelaide Review, 2010-03) Dooley, Gillian MaryReviews of Stephen Orr's novel about the disappearance of the Beaumont children, 'Time's Long Ruin'.Item One Voice(Adelaide Review, 2010-03) Dooley, Gillian MaryThis month, hundreds of singers from all walks of life will come together to make history singing in Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Keen chorister Gillian Dooley gives us an inside view of the preparations that go into staging massed choral works.Item Summer Reading 2009/10(Adelaide Review, 2010-01) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of 2009 Australian publications for summer reading.Item Review of 'The Lost Art of Sleep' by Michael McGirr(Adelaide Review, 2009-09) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of 'The Lost Art of Sleep' by Michael McGirr.Item Review of 'Alex & Me' by Irene M. Pepperberg(Adelaide Review, 2009-05) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of 'Alex & Me' by Irene M. Pepperberg, a memoir about a scientist's relationship with her experimental subject, an African grey parrot.Item Review of 'Filthy Lucre' by Joseph Heath(Adelaide Review, 2009-07) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of Joseph Heath's 'Filthy Lucre: Economics for Those Who Hate Capitalism'Item Review of 'A Golden Age of Freedom' by Rupert Murdoch.(Adelaide Review, 2009-02) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of Rupert Murdoch's book based on the 2008 ABC Boyer Lectures.Item Review of 'The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty' by Peter Singer.(Adelaide Review, 2009-02) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of 'The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty' by Peter Singer.Item Summer Reading(Adelaide Review, 2009-01) Dooley, Gillian MaryA round-up of books for summer reading.Item Looking Inside Muslim Minds(Adelaide Review, 2008-10) Dooley, Gillian MaryFlinders University sociologist Riaz Hassan has spent more than ten years doing a comparative study of Muslims in seven countries, and his findings were published earlier this year in Inside Muslim Minds. His study brings together the results of interviews with more than six thousand Muslims in Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey, all countries in which the majority of the population are Muslims. The data, collected in four countries before, and three countries after, the world-changing events of September 2001, is analysed country by country, showing fascinating patterns of attitudes across these seven countriesItem New Colony, Free Press?(Adelaide Review, 2008-07) Dooley, Gillian MaryThe massacre of the survivors of the shipwrecked Maria off the South Australian coast in 1840 is one of South Australia’s founding stories, mythologised in later nineteenth century accounts as a meaningless act by cowardly and bloodthirsty natives. As Robert Foster, Rick Hosking and Amanda Nettelbeck showed in their 2002 book Fatal Collisions, that is not how it was seen at the time. And now, from Beth Duncan’s new book Mary Thomas: Founding Mother we can see how the massacre became an occasion not only for an argument over the rights of Aborigines to the same protections under British law as the settlers, but a struggle for the freedom of the press.Item Review of 'Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear'(Adelaide Review, 2008-07) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of the Sydney PEN 3 Voices Collection, 'Tolerance, Prejudice and Fear' by Alexis Wright, Gideon Haigh and Christos Tsiolkas, with an introduction by J.M. CoetzeeItem Review of 'Adnyamathanha Ngawarla'(Adelaide Review, 2008-04) Dooley, Gillian MaryReview of the facsimile handwritten Adnyamathanha language book 'Adnyamathanha Ngawarla' by Lily NevilleItem A New Kind of Womanhood(Adelaide Review, 2008-02-15) Dooley, Gillian MaryInterview with Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round, authors of Roma the First, a biography of Dame Roma Mitchell.Item It's All About Books(Adelaide Review, 2008-02-29) Dooley, Gillian MaryPreview of Adelaide Writers' Week 2008.Item Best Reads from the Past Year(Adelaide Review, 2007-12-21) Dooley, Gillian MaryRoundup of best books of 2007 from The Adelaide Review's book reviews coordinator.Item The Art of Persuasion(Adelaide Review, 2007-12-07) Dooley, Gillian MaryA survey of seven non-fiction titles published in 2007.Item 'When You Need a Word'(Adelaide Review, 2007-11-23) Dooley, Gillian MaryAn interview with Susan Butler, editor of the 2nd edition of the Macquarie Thesaurus.