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For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practising orthopaedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling argument particularly compelling.Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence. The placebo effect may be real, but is it worth the recovery time, expense and discomfort?

In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors - rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris - reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down.

Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower's home in Sydney and Hazzard's apartments in New York, Naples and Capri. The two women wrote to each other of their daily lives, of impediments to writing, their reading, politics and world affairs, and in Hazzard's case, her travels. And they wrote about Hazzard's mother, for whose care Harrower took increasing - and increasingly reluctant - responsibility from the early 1970s (precisely the period when she herself virtually stopped writing).Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's official biographer, and Susan Wyndham, who interviewed both Hazzard and Harrower, this is an extraordinary account of two literary luminaries, their complex relationship and their times.'Hazzard and Harrower is a book to keep close and return to often.' - Michelle de Kretser'Vital, compelling, terrifying, revelatory - and a literary pleasure in its own right.' - Anna Funder'Beautiful, wise and unflinching. Will we ever have a chance like this again to eavesdrop on two great writers as they talk books, people and the world for forty years?' - David Marr'An engrossing portrayal of forty years of complicated friendship between two writers, only one of whom has the steel - or is it the ruthlessness? - to put her art before everything else.' - Charlotte Wood'I read these letters with mounting excitement. There is a righteous delight in seeing female talent reclaimed: two great Australian writers finally treated with the care and rigour they deserve.' - Diana Reid

Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten's Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on...Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river system. Now he takes on Australia's rogue corporations. In a crisis of corporate culture, the unparalleled power of Australian companies has been accompanied by an unrelenting stream of scandals - bankruptcies, criminal charges, ethical misconduct and damage to the reputation of companies and their executives and boards.Beresford investigates corporate Australia's highest-profile scandals, the rise of celebrity CEOs, the role of regulators, the increased pressure on boards to abide by ethical standards and the murky links between big business, governments, banks, media and lobby groups.