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A companion volume to the upcoming ABC TV series, this is a glorious celebration of the car in Australia over the last 100 years - how it changed us and...

A fabulous, honest memoir from the 'other' author of Puberty Blues. A deeply personal memoir in three parts.

From the author of True Blue Santa and The Greatest Mother's Day of All , comes a delightful Australian book for Easter. Easter is fast approaching and the Easter Bunny...

Aimed at nurses and health professionals training to care for Australia's growing aged population. This book does not attempt to proceed from a pathological interpretation of aging but rather views...

This is a description of life aboard "Antigone", a British Merchant Navy vessel, one of the Holt Line's "China Boats" on a voyage from Liverpool to the Far East and...

The new classic from the queen of contemporary fiction A brand-new book from the Number One bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life They're a...

Sussex, 2003 . When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But...

For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical...

From springtime florals to Christmas greetings, delight in this seasonal treasury of needlepoint cards and keepsakes. These 55 projects offer the perfect choice of gifts to stitch for every occasion--a...

An entirely new kind of biography, Oscar s Books explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading. It argues that reading exercised a formative influence on Wilde s character...

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking. The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama...

A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division...

The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to...

This book tells the story of Florence Hardin g''s rise to power. The daughter of an abusive father, mother at a young age to an illegitimate child, she saw her...

Technology is revolutionizing business practice. As a result, tens of thousands of executives are finding their industries on the verge of earthshaking changes. Now, drawing on four decades of consulting...

The snobbery and false values of the English country nobility are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families.

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West,...

More than half a century after the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: are women human yet? If...

In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For...

A noted pshychologist explores the paradoxes of masculinity. This book examines men's hopes and fears, dreams and reality, love lives and work lives, as Ross unfolds a new theory of...

The author describes his career with the Navy's first anti-terrorist unit.

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the...

Far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the Pharaoh decides...

Ask yourself: what's the difference between a rich person and the average person on the street? And, more importantly, which one do you want to be?Successful people don't have mysterious...

Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project...

We are living today in a genuinely frightening scenario- religion and science are engaged in a kind of war- a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have...

Improve the way you live and interact with others around you as you are inspired by this book using the ancient art of storytelling. Through intriguing parables, real-life examples and...

In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve...

A New York Times Bestseller - Named A Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rocky Mountain...

"Humorous, inventive illustrations brimming with visual charm."-Kirkus From New York Times bestselling creator of Tomorrow I'll Be Brave comes a delightful picture book following an inquisitive little letter "u" as...

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But...

One act of love will change one family s destiny As a devoted mother, Veronique Parker has dedicated herself to her three daughters, before and since her divorce. Her world...

It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world Lee Child's genius has been to create a tough guy hero that men will...