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This is an extraordinary tribute to an extraordinary place, one that will allow the MONA effect to resonate for years to come. The inside story of Australia's most exciting museum....

Huge floodwaters have engulfed a remote Victorian goldfield, reducing the prospect of digging up a fortune from very slim to impossible, and adding disease to the many possibilities of sudden...

Manners are very important to learn early in life. This lovely book will teach children how to mind their manners in a number of everyday situations. Gorgeous animal illustrations by...

Rex Hunt at his wittiest best. writing his own larger than life personal stories. nothing is left out in this collection of "Tall Tales" on footy, fishing, life as a...

There s no such thing as easy money. As surgeon Edward Hammond is about to find out. Thirteen years ago he performed a life saving operation on a Serbian gangster,...

Friends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet,...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to spend just a few days...

They had been inseparable in college. Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the twenty years or more that followed, the three had moved on with their lives, settled in...

As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger...

Poetess, fallen woman and wit, Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Favoured by, among others, the newly celebrated Jonathan Swift in...

Swashbuckling adventure, historical action and supernatural thrills come together in the second novel in Mark Chadbourn's genre-busting Swords of Albion series. 1593. Queen Elizabeth's trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead...

Sassy, sensitive chick-lit with a unique fresh narrative. In Rachel Covington's view, the world is divided into two kinds of people- those who have children and those who don't. Neither...

The Maid - Frankie Willis is a twenty-five-year-old blonde computer whizzkid, searching for adventure as a stewardess on board mega-yacht Pushkin; he Hooker -Peaches Gold is a risk-taking, tough-talking, knockout...

Like its predecessor, "More Information Than You Require" compiles incredibly handy made up facts into brief articles, overlong lists, frighteningly complex charts, and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes...

When Alfred Felton died in 1904 he left [pound]378,033 in trust to the people of Victoria, the income to be split between approved charities and the acquisition of art. 'Without...

In the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, around 200,000 visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their...

Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981).While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially...

As civilization expands, it encroaches on tribal ways of life and the customs of indigenous peoples begin to change. To celebrate these fast-disappearing traditions, nature photographer Art Wolfe has travelled...

Artists, photographers, architects, fashion designers, product designers, street artists, graphic designers: all are helping to redefine our aesthetics, values and ideas about the future. Here, a group of international experts...

A unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers. Sean Scully's paintings of brushy stripes...

Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery will change the way you think about creativity. The book upends popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and...

This is a collection of photographs of a side to the region of Provence that is rarely seen, the lavender fields on the plateaux of the Luberon mountains. The pictures...

A stimulating excursion into pure mathematics aimed at ""the mathematically traumatized,"" but great fun for mathematical hobbyists and serious mathematicians as well. Requiring only high school algebra as mathematical background,...

The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment,...

James Wallace brings readers up to date on the Gates saga to 1997 and reveals the inside story of the struggle to keep Microsoft on top in the World Wide...

Praise for A. K. Dewdney Yes, We Have No Neutrons "We need more books like this-especially if they're this much fun to read." -Wired "Dewdney manages to make this catalog...

Every parent s worst fear Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news- their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend s family, has...

As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential to redefine the scope of the language curriculum. But for this potential to be...

From leading scientists, lawyers, and educators -- a decisive rebuttal to those who undermine science in the name of religion. In a time when creationist textbooks continue to appear in...

Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that...

When The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it...

There was once no greater advocate for revolution than Michel Wery. No voice spoke louder, was more impassioned, on the need for a new order, for an end to disparity...

'An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world...