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Susan Cain taught us the value of being Quiet. Now, The Introvert Entrepreneur takes the next step and shows us how introverts can channel their inner quiet in order to...

A guide to the greatest shows and films in the history of the musical, as well as their stars, lyricists and composers. Over 1600 entries provide facts, figures and critical...

The book titled The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood's Academy Awards by the author Anthony Holden. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The Brazilian football team at its best exudes a skill, flamboyance and romantic pull. Football is how the world sees Brazil and Brazilians see themselves. The game symbolises racial harmony,...

From greenhouse gases and extreme weather to climate zones and global warming, this work provides clear explanations on a topic of universal concern. It includes Usborne Internet links to recommended...

In the western media, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and elsewhere, the results of suicide bombing...

Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Michelangelo, Whitman, Poe, they are her inspiration: Jane Eyre, Catherine Moreland, Desdemona, they are her companions. As as she moves about the witless world around her, observing...

In the mouth-watering tradition of POMEGRANATE SOUP, a food writer finds her way back home to that most hauntingly beautiful, tragic and dynamic of cities, Beirut, through the dishes of...

This is a comprehensive account of the life and death of dinosaurs. Modern birds, the authors assert, are the direct descendents of dinosaurs and represent the most ancient linking group...

One midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board: an Englishman...

Jalaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi poet and mystic born in 1204, believed that if we surrender ourselves to the power of love, it is possible to live in a state...

The book titled Underfoot in Show Business by the author Helene Hanff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When trust is destroyed in the workplace, how do you restore it? In the era of #metoo, 'fake news' and 'alternative facts' few would dispute that we face a global...

The book titled Rolf Boldrewood by the author Thomas Alexander Browne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter,...

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the...

The book titled The Invention That Changed the World by the author Robert Bueri. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This memoir of former CIA Deputy Director Duane R. "Dewey" Clarridge offers revelations about clandestine activities he supervised in the world's hot spots. He offers us an account of Iran-Contra,...

The book titled Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography by the author Kitty Kelley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Skyscraper: 2the Making of a Building by the author Karl Sabbagh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1920, young Olga Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, fled Moscow for Berlinataking only a smuggled diamond ring. Olga quickly won both celebrity as an actress...

On 20 December 2017 John 'Jack' Bell will celebrate his 100th birthday; a great achievement for any person but very special when that person was seriously wounded in the Second...

16-year old Alan Crosthwaite is committed to a mental asylum when he takes action against an international oil company polluting the environment. The only reason he doesn't end up in...

After escaping a P.O.W camp with six others, Australian Lance Corporal Ralph Churches went back for his mates, all ninety of them. He got them airlifted to safety from behind...

The book titled Wings for Warriors: A Photographic History of the Australian Flying by the author The RAAF Public Relations Section. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Ultra was the code word for the method by which the Allies intercepted the German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents during World War II. The author, himself a...

The book titled More Mysterious Wales by the author Chris Barber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's...

This comprehensive edition of Sylvia Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a complete and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters Plath wrote...

Gerald Middleton, Professor Emeritus of early medieval history, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his Swedish...

Recounts the story of a seventeen-year-old German Jew hiding in Paris who set in motion the events that led to World War II.

"Gardens Illustrated" magazine acknowledges that gardeners love plants and want to know their origins and parentage as well as details about colour, form and habit. This book brings together 25...

Outspoken and irresistable as always, Anastasia Krupnik finds that when you exaggerate the truty, things don't always turn out as planned. Unfazed by her friends' decision to give up boys,...

Anastasia's seventh-grade science project becomes almost more than she can handle, but brother Sam, age three, and a bust of Freud nobly aid her.

The Rotary Club of Melbourne was the first Rotary Club in Australia. Since its inaugural luncheon on 21 April 1921, the club has had an outstanding record of philanthropic endeavour...

This book debunks the myth that Orthodox Judaism in Australia is a twentieth-century phenomenon. Nevertheless, fluctuations in fortunes -- social, religious and economic, reflecting past and contemporary changes in surrounding...

A collection of works by some of Ireland's greatest writers includes Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World, and George Bernard Shaw's...

A large format, beautifully designed book that takes readers on an incredible journey into space. We live in an amazing planetary system. From the yawning Valles Marineris on Mars and...

With household name brands like Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos, Bombardier Inc is a Canadian success story. Bombardier is also the largest rail manufacturer in the world and the third largest aircraft...

An eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers . Only one in ten chases actually intercept a tornado-unless you're Reed Timmer....

The book titled On Writing and Politics, 1967-83 by the author Gunter Grass. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a powerful, fast-moving dramatisation of George Orwell's classic satire, Animal Farm . The script is fresh, funny and immensely enjoyable without in any way jeopardising the savagery of...

The book titled The Germans: Who are They Now? by the author Alan Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Former college football star and criminal defense attorney Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking thriller from the award-winning author of "The Hidden Man." Jason Kolarich has spent the past year...

The book titled The Honor of Spies by the author W E B Griffin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Griffin's iconoclastic OSS heroes face a historic challenge in the brand-new volume of the New York Times bestselling series that is filled to the brim with action and character.