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How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic
Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...
Cosette: Or The Time of Illusions
An enormous landmark event in France when it was published, Cosette is the sequel to Victor Hugo's classic epic of revolutionary France Les Miserables.Fran?ois C?r?sa takes up the story in...
Doghead Bites Back
Jack's back - and still as barking as ever! Now that Jack has embraced his doggy alter ego - Anubis, jackal-headed god of the dead - he must travel to...
Looking Good Dead
Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next him, and attempting...
Careless
In the midst of her life with her small brother and unpredictable mother, Pearl is a child who strives to get things right. But the events of one summer's day...
Cairo: The City Victorious
Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia,...
The Devil May Dance: A Novel
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long...
Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard
The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history, destroying a naval fleet, killing over a thousand crew members,...
Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign
When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House years longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness,...
Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau
An exciting look at the artistic evolution of the iconic style of Doonesbury on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Best known for his wry and incisive takes on American...
Creation: The Quest to Create Artificial Life
Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand,...
The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War
$115.00 AUD
"The Closed World" offers an alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp...
English Syntax
An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who...
Incomparable World: A collection of rediscovered works celebrating
A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their freedom after the American revolution In the years just after the American revolution, London...
The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to
In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the...
On Being John McEnroe
A wonderful exploration of sporting obsession, as well as a vivid portrait of an extraordinary tennis personality and the era that shaped him. Read a fan's eye view of one...
The Habsburg Cafe
This volume is a memoir of a visit made by Andrew Riemer to his country of origin in 1991. He migrated to Australia from Hungary with his family when he...
Australia's Boer War
$200.00 AUD
The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but also...
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence. At the...
Metamorphoses
The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.
The Book of Fame
In 1905 a motley group of young New Zealand rugby players sets out by steamer on a journey to the other side of the world. The following year they are...
Monica Bloom
From the moment he hears her voice over the fence, Matt Sherman knows he has to meet the twins' cousin, Monica Bloom. She's just flown in from Dublin ready for...
The Catch
Theatrical agent Letty Summers wants a baby. The catch? Her partner has dumped her. The single scene is leaving her cold, too many badly cut suits and scuffed shoes. But,...
The Rise of Nine: Lorien Legacies Book 3
$10.00 AUD
In the beginning we were a group of nine. Nine aliens who left our home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack from the deadly Mogodorians. We scattered on...
Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
The fourth novel in the extraordinary Artemis Fowl series, now with a brand-new cover look! *Soon to be a major film!* CHILD GENIUS ARTEMIS FOWL IS IN TERRIBLE DANGER HE...
The Fear,
HE DOESN'T KNOW IT, BUT DOGNUT IS ABOUT TO SET OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT WILL AFFECT EVERY KID IN THE CITY. The sickness struck everyone over the age...
Catch Me When I Fall
You're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends....
This Blinding Absence of Light
An astonishing novel of endurance and survival that won the 2004 IMPAC Award. In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of...
Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the solution to one of the world's most puzzling mathematical problems. The four-colour theorem states that every map in the world can...
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
This is a useful reference work, ideal for anyone wanting to write a letter, solve a crossword, or write any manner of prose or poem. It is the anniversary edition...
Theaetetus
Plato's philosophical consideration of the nature of knowledge Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of...
Treasure Island
First time in Penguin Classics for this quintessential adventure story The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances...
Armadillo
One winter morning Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period...
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
This collection of writings reflects Suu Kyi's hopes and fears for her people, her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humourous reminiscences as well as...
The Veiled One: a captivating and utterly satisfying murder mystery
The fourteenth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down....
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sail down the Mississippi with rascally Huck Finn! 'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay...
The Old Devils
Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life- to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both...
After The Rain
A WONDERFUL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING TRADITION OF NICHOLAS SPARKS AND ANITA SHREVE They were brothers and they knew each other better than they had ever known anybody, and when...