Books by Nicole Starbuck

Go to school, get good grades, have a job with great pay and excellent benefits, and everything will be fine—or so I thought. When I graduated from university and immediately secured a prestigious position as an assistant store manager at a retail store, I thought I was on my way to the top of the corporate ladder. Instead, I quickly hit rock bottom.Anxious, stressed out, and overworked, I started controlling every aspect of my life from each calorie I consumed to every penny I spent. But as my dress size shrank, my stress size grew.What I didn’t realize was the more tightly I tried to hold onto control, the more it spiraled away from me. It took waking up in an emergency room after a massive panic attack to realize how I’d allowed my desire for control to consume me.This is the story of how my hunger for control almost killed me.

This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin's scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition's stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, politics and science in the era of Bonaparte.