The Brother Gardeners - Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
The Brother Gardeners - Botany, Empire and the Birth of...
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson ...

The War with the Ottoman Empire: Volume II - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The War with the Ottoman Empire: Volume II - The Centen...
The war with the Ottoman Empire was a war not only between g...

The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of...
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Mode...

Australia and the Birth of the International Bill of Human Rights 1946-1966
Australia and the Birth of the International Bill of Hu...
Australia and the Birth of the International Bill of Human R...

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy - University...

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy - University...

The Widow Clicquot - The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
The Widow Clicquot - The Story of a Champagne Empire an...
The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne...

For All the Tea in China - Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China - Espionage, Empire and the Se...
Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunt...

Independent Nation: the Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy 1901-1946 : Australia, the British Empire and the Origins of Australian-Indonesian Rela
Independent Nation: the Evolution of Australian Foreign...
Independent Nation: the Evolution of Australian Foreign Poli...

The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty
The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the ...
The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heave...

The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and...
The Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling busines...

The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Bir...
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an aud...

The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Bir...
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an aud...

Primal Health - Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday
Primal Health - Understanding the Critical Period Betwe...
Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, in...

The Brother Gardeners - Botany, Empire And The Birth Of An Obsess

Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Called the work of “a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose” (“Publishers Weekly”) and the book that, “anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love,” by “Library Journal,” “Braiding Sweetgrass” is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with th...
The Canterbury Tales - Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue

The Canterbury Tales - Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue

Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested “Merchant’s Tale” and the “Tale of Sir Thopas.” “Sources and Backgrounds” are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevan...
The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“An immersive play-by-play of the company’s ascent…. It’s hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story.” — Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.com’s visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed...
The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King

The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King

In their third zombie-tastic adventure, Jack Sullivan and his friends June, Quint and Dirk discover that they might not be the last kids on Earth after all… And everyone is thrilled – except Jack. Living in a tree house with his best friends, battling monsters and escaping certain death – he’s been having the most awesome time of his life. Some how he’s got to persuade his friends that life i...
The Eagle's Prophecy (Eagles of the Empire 6)

The Eagle's Prophecy (Eagles of the Empire 6)

IF YOU DON’T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON’T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE’S PROPHECY is the powerful sixth novel in Simon Scarrow’s bestselling Eagles of the Empire seires. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Praise for Simon Scarrow’s gripping novels: ‘Ferocious and compelling’ Daily Express The Adriatic Sea, AD 45. Cato and Macro, centurions of the Roman army, are horrified to learn that they ...
The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2)

The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2)

IF YOU DON’T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON’T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE’S CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in Simon Scarrow’s bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for Simon Scarrow’s compelling historical novels: ‘Gripping and moving’ The Times Britannia, AD 43. Bleak, rainy and full of vicious savages, Britannia i...
The Eagle's Prey (Eagles of the Empire 5)

The Eagle's Prey (Eagles of the Empire 5)

IF YOU DON’T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON’T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE’S PREY is the thrilling fifth novel in Simon Scarrow’s bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. A must read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. Praise for Simon Scarrow’s gripping historical novels: ‘Ferocious and compelling’ Daily Express Britannia, AD 44. The time has come to claim Britain for the Empire. Centur...
The Hidden Reality - Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

The Hidden Reality - Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos explores our most current scientific understanding of the universe, the ‘string theory’ that might hold the key to unifying nature’s laws, and our continuing quest to know more. There was a time when ‘universe’ meant all there is. Everything. Yet, as physicist Brian Greene’s extraordinary book shows, ou...
Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India

Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India’s experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor ’Tharoor’s impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires … laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read’ Financial Times In the eighteenth c...
The Birth of Tragedy - Out of the Spirit of Music

The Birth of Tragedy - Out of the Spirit of Music

Dedicated to Richard Wagner, this book is rich in Nietzsche’s enthusiasms for Greek literature and especially tragedy, for Schopenhauer and Wagner’s “Tristan Und Isolde”. Its central vision is the idea that “only as an aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world justified”. Making his distinction between the Apollonian and the Dionysian spirit, Nietzsche presses the reader to consider w...
Simon Thorn and the Shark's Cave

Simon Thorn and the Shark's Cave

The action-packed third book in a series that’s Percy Jackson meets Beast Quest, about a boy who discovers he’s part of a secret race of animal shapeshifters – and must become a hero Twelve-year-old Simon Thorn’s life is almost unrecognisable from just a few months ago. He has a twin brother, an uncle he never knew and his first real friends at the secret Animalgam Academy. Not only is he an ...
The Fairy Bell Sisters - Lily and the Fancy-dress Party

The Fairy Bell Sisters - Lily and the Fancy-dress Party

Do you believe in fairies? Join Tinker Bell’s sisters on a magical adventure. Inspired by Tinker Bell, from the book Peter Pan, by J. M. BarrieBefore Tinker Bell flew to Never Land and met Peter Pan she lived on Sheepskerry Island with her fairy sisters – Clara, Lily, Rosie, Silver and Squeak the baby. The young fairies go to fairy school and love tea parties, dressing up and exciting adventure...
Primal Health - Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday

Primal Health - Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday

Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a child’s first birthday is critical to life-long health. In this prophetic book – first published in 1986 and reproduced here in its original form – he argues that different parts of the ‘primal adaptive system’ develop, regulate and adjust themselves during foetal life and the time aro...
The Dalai Lama's Cat And The Power Of Meow

The Dalai Lama's Cat And The Power Of Meow

In the latest installment of the Dalai Lama’s Cat series, His Holiness’s Cat (“HHC”) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this, being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind, and to experience l...
Inglorious Empire - What the British did to India

Inglorious Empire - What the British did to India

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India – from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj – revealing how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the ...
The Selwood Boys - Battle Royale and The Miracle Goal

The Selwood Boys - Battle Royale and The Miracle Goal

Four future AFL stars under one roof!? Go back to where it all began with The Selwood Boys … In the Selwood house, there’s madness and mayhem every day – and footy, of course! Meet the Selwood boys … There’s the twins, Troy and Adam, pulling pranks and making mischief, then Joel with his sneaky, cheeky antics, and finally little Scott, who just does his best (or make that his worst!) to kee...
The Undiscovered Self - With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

The Undiscovered Self - With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

These two essays, written late in Jung’s life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, “The Undiscovered Self” is a plea for his generation – and those to come – to continue the individual work of self-discovery and not abandon needed psychological reflection for the easy ephemera of mass culture. Only ...
THE COWBOY AND THE BABY/HER STUBBORN COWBOY

THE COWBOY AND THE BABY/HER STUBBORN COWBOY

The Cowboy And The Baby – Marie FerrarellaWhen the father of her baby bails, Devon Bennett finds herself in a difficult position. As in giving-birth-in-a-truck-on-the-side-of-a-road difficult. Devon’s never felt more alone, until a hunky cowboy rides in to save the day. Deputy Cody McCullough has a feeling that Devon and her baby still need him, and not just because they’re staying at his ranch...
Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Four Seasons in Rome - On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome… `Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr’s varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, and the first year of parenthood. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats – the chroniclers of Rome ...
Braving the Wilderness - The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone

Braving the Wilderness - The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone

A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. ’True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.’ Social scientist BrenU Brown, PhD, LMSW has sparked ...
The End of Money - The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution

The End of Money - The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution

Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering… These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies – digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers that represent a completely new sort of financial transaction that could soon become mainstream. The most famous – or infamous – cryptocurr...