The Plague, the Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Select...
Brings together a collection of the Nobel Prize-winning writ...
Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essay...
Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essays - U...
The Enchanted Charms (Geronimo Stilton and the Kingdom ...
I, Geronimo Stilton, was so excited to find myself in the Ki...
Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Rise ...
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Gwynn...
Revolution In The Head - The Beatles Records and the Si...
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost...
Slave Species of the Gods - The Secret History of the A...
Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence f...
Don't Mention the War: The Australian Defence Force, th...
Don't Mention the War: The Australian Defence Force, the Med...
Making and Breaking the Law: the Legal System and the A...
Making and Breaking the Law: the Legal System and the Attain...
Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the S...
Reviewing the South: The Literary Marketplace and the Southe...
The Plague, The Fall, Exile And The Kingdom, And Selected Essays
The House - The brilliantly tense and terrifying thriller with a shocking twist - whose story do you believe?
Need the perfect stocking filler for the discerning thriller fan?THE OBSERVER THRILLER BOOK OF THE MONTH**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK**Over 100 5 reviews* The perfect couple. The perfect house.
The perfect crime. Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the house a year ago. It seemed like their dream home: tons of space, the perfect location, and a friendly o...
The Book of Paul - The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip on John Howard- The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on. On Peter Costello- The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg. On John Hewson- His performance is like bei...
The Dreaming And Other Essays
W.E.H. Stanners words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as The Dreaming Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale, regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase the great Australian silence. And in h...
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 Merchants 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 Book of Paul - The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
I fancy Malcolm (Turnbull) is like the big red bunger. Youre lighting up, theres a bit of a fizz, then nothing. Nothing. An updated, gift edition of the bestselling The Book of Paul, presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip on John Howard- The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attackin...
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 hes been having the most awesome time of his life. Some how hes got to persuade his friends that life i...
The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
An immersive play-by-play of the companys ascent
. Its hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story. Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.coms visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasnt 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 Cow Tripped Over the Moon and Other Nursery Rhyme Emergencies
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
but what happened next? Here comes the ambulance! its on its way. Whos had an accident in Storyland today? We all know that nursery rhymes are dangerous things you could get trampled by all the kings horses, have your nose pecked off by blackbirds, or even fall off a bough as you sleep! Luckily, the Storyland Ambulance Crew are on hand to patch everyone ...
The Hidden Reality - Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Brian Greenes 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 natures laws, and our continuing quest to know more. There was a time when universe meant all there is. Everything. Yet, as physicist Brian Greenes extraordinary book shows, ou...
No-Drama Discipline - The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain ChildTina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel, the author of Brainstormnow explore the ultimate child-raising challenge: discipline. Highlighting the fascinating link between a childs neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map fo...
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 childs 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 Storm Weaver and the Sand
When the three runaways Sal, Shilly and Skender finally arrive at the remote island of the Haunted City, home of the Sky Wardens, Sals great-aunt, the Syndic, is determined to keep them under control. And if that means imprisonment, so be it. But the Syndic isnt the least of Sals worries. The ghosts that live behind the ancient glass of the city are restless and no one knows why or wh...
The Great Leveller - Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country
Collected together for the first time, here are the three hard-hitting standalone novels set in the world of Joe Abercrombies bestselling FIRST LAW trilogy. BEST SERVED COLD: War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orsos employ, its a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular a shade too pop...
The Cows - The Bold, Brilliant and Hilarious Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
Fearlessly frank and funny, the debut adult novel from Dawn OPorter needs to be talked about. COW piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date; one of the herd. Women dont have to fall into a stereotype. THE COWS is a powerful novel about three women. In all the noise of modern life, each needs to find their own voice. Its about friendship and being female.Its bold and brilli...
The Fairy Bell Sisters - Lily and the Fancy-dress Party
Do you believe in fairies? Join Tinker Bells 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...
A History of the Crusades I - The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
The first volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runcimans A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and inste...
Happy Accidents - The Transformative Power of "YES, AND" at Work and in Life
Stop saying no to opportunity, and start saying yes to possibility Happy Accidents is your personal guide to transforming your life. As we take on task after task, responsibility after responsibility, we lose sight of who we are and why were doing what we do; we rush through the day completing a to-do list, but we never really seem to accomplish the things that are most important. What g...
The Dalai Lama's Cat And The Power Of Meow
In the latest installment of the Dalai Lamas Cat series, His Holinesss 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...
Ghost on the Throne - The Death of Alexander the Great
When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirsa mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his deathwere jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexanders Macedonian generals, spurred by their own th...
The Undiscovered Self - With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
These two essays, written late in Jungs 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 Right Way, The Wrong Way and the Railway - Great Victorian Rail Stories
The Right Way, the Wrong Way and the Railway takes a real warts and all look at the Victorian Railways. Eight years in the making, this book abounds in history, humour, railway stuff-ups and the typical stupidity which often went with The Job. From the mysteries of safeworking to suburban shenanigans, from close shaves to the downright bizarre, this book has it all right across the state ...