RECENT AND UPCOMING BOOKS BY CAMERON RICHARDS
Series 1. 21st Century knowledge-building for sustainable ‘global convergence’
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Optimal lifelong learning from experience, reflection and ‘inner wisdom’: The four stages of the human lifecycle revisited
Words, ideas, and optimal knowledge-building: A ‘foolproof’ self-help guide to academic (and all other) thinking, writing, and problem-solving inquiry
Doing a PhD: An optimal self-help AI-proof guide
Dialogic Rhetoric: Interpreting the (AI proof) interplay of metaphor, narrative models, and cultural contexts of human language-use (out in early 2027)
21st Century Educational Designs: Digital literacies, e-learning interactivities, and ‘activity-reflection e-portfolios’ (coming soon)
Optimal problem-solving for sustainable human development (coming soon)
Series 2. ‘Australiana’ – family histories, local histories, and cultural/literary histories
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Prosperous: The Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early Colonial Australia (2025)
Exploring Ancestral Memories and ‘Lost Family Histories’ (2025)
Henry A. Tardent: The untold story of how a Swiss migrant influenced the emergence of ‘Australian democracy’ (2026)
Australiana: A cultural, literary and ‘post-colonial’ history of the emerging modern Australia(out in early 2027)
Related articles and sample ‘snippets’
- ‘Global knowledge convergence’: Socrates and the historical loss and (projected) 21st Century recovery of ‘dialogue’ in human thought – Excerpts from Words, ideas, and optimal knowledge-building
- Rediscovering the purpose of the human lifecycle: The universal antidote to the anxiety, disruption, and despair of 21st Century modern life – excerpts from Optimal lifelong learning from experience, reflection, and ‘inner wisdom’: The four stages of the human lifecycle revisited
- The lost history of Evandale 1821-1848: A pivotal time and place not just of VDL but of early Australia (Afterword to Prosperous)
- What if the naïve enthusiasts of AI are wrong and it’s really ‘just a technological tool’? (PIMA Bulletin article)
- Harry Murray VC flier (2025), Murray Museum – Evandale, Tasmania
- A brief bio of my cousin P.R (Inky) Stephensen (another Tardent descendant), excerpt from ‘Ancestral Memories’
- Learning objectives vs. learning outcomes? Golf as not just a metaphor of life but of how OBE should be done – from ‘Optimal lifelong learning’
- Childbirth and infant mortality’ tragedies facing women in earlier times (Hannah Goodall Murray Cocker story) – addition to Ancestral memories
- Revisiting key insights about ‘lifecycle wisdom’ from humanity’s ‘axial age’ – addition to ‘Optimal lifelong learning’
- Did Henry Tardent’s obituary get it right? Concluding sections to “Henry A. Tardent”
- The relevance of the emergent method of writing for academic knowledge-building – excerpt from Cameron Richards’ Doing a PhD
- The trap of using AI as a substitute for ‘writing’ or ‘thinking’ (Or why I would rather ‘sweat blood’ over every line, paragraph, chapter and book that I write)– excerpts linked to Dialogic rhetoric (out soon)
‘The untold of Henry A. Tardent’ – a recorded version of the related conference presentation made to the Swiss Australia Alliance conference in Brisbane 14/11/2026 (to be uploaded soon)