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In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as...

Stephen Greenblatt has been at the centre of a major shift in literary interpretation towards a critical method that places cultural creation in history. In this book - a sustained...

A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings,...

The Australian School Dictionary is Australia's best-selling school dictionary. Includes new 32 page Grammar and Reference Guide which provides authoritative and clear advice on grammar and usage.

This book provides a fascinating study of a community of scientists at the prestigious Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Science in Melbourne, Australia. These scientists are mainly concerned...

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the...

Sixty years ago, the Nobel laureate Santiago Ramon y Cajal stated that "in the adult brain, nervous pathways are fixed and immutable; everything may die, nothing may be regenerated." Cajal's...

For thousands of loving and concerned parents of autistic children, the suspicion that something may be wrong comes long before the clinical diagnosis of autism, PDD (pervasive developmental disorder), or...

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth...

This is a new selection of five English nineteenth-century plays, none of which has been recently available. In the case of "The Lights o' London", a famous drama of the...

Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and...

Almost one million people around the world suffer from kidney disease and owe their lives to dialysis or transplantation. Each year in the UK, nearly 10,000 people enter end-stage kidney...

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship...

The Australian Basic School Oxford Dictionary has been carefully compiled with the needs of students aged between 10-16 in mind. This new edition has been completely revised and updated, with...

Edited at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra, this innovative reference book is a dictionary and thesaurus in a single, easy-to-use volume.This new edition contains:Hundreds of new and revised...

Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious...

Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature.When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades wrote...

They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both. Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a profes-sional killer. The...

Hop aboard the Riptide Railway and join Sophia Seashell, Willow Wave, Chloe Coral and Olivia Ocean for a splashing adventure in MERMAID HOLIDAYS . . . Sophia, Willow, Chloe and...

Take a trip to Cape Kelp Forest and join Willow Wave, Sophia Seashell, Chloe Coral and Olivia Ocean for another splashing adventure in MERMAID HOLIDAYS . . . Willow decides...

Grab your favourite booth at the Turtleville Tearooms and join Chloe Coral, Sophia Seashell, Willow Wave and Olivia Ocean for another splashing adventure in MERMAID HOLIDAYS . . . Chloe's...

Sign up for Sea Star Reef Summer Camp and join Olivia Ocean, Chloe Coral, Sophia Seashell and Willow Wave for another splashing adventure in MERMAID HOLIDAYS . . . The...

Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods? Jake Whyte is the sole resident...

Tobias Madden delivers another swoonworthy YA rom-com winner with his second novel! Noah is in love with his online best friend. Which is a huge problem, for the following reasons-...

A Penguin Special that investigates the incredible true story behind Australia's most famous building J rn Utzon designed the Sydney Opera House so that every element would be in harmony....

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Gabriel's Rapture and Gabriel's Inferno comes the epic conclusion to this captivating romantic trilogy. From the author of the New York...

In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and the birth of the machine age. When her lover dies suddenly,...

Sachin Tendulkar is a virtuoso when it comes to the game of cricket who does not need an introduction or a marketing strategy. Sachin Cricketer of The Century is the...

An electrifying animal adventure series for middle readers from Justin D'Ath, author of the bestselling Extreme Adventures series. An electrifying series from Justin D'ath, author of the bestselling Extreme Adventures....

Specky has been selected to represent Australia in International Rules in this last book in the bestselling series. THE CROWD ROARED AS THE BALL ROCKETED INTO THE BACK OF THE...

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ), and shows how employees and business leaders alike can increase their satisfaction and productivity-in work and life--via her...

"The New York Times" bestselling author Robert Littell presents a suspenseful and brilliantly topical new thriller that looks at the cycle of political violence in the Middle East. In the...

"Bourbon Empire is more than just whiskey history. Mitenbuler demonstrates, with clear, witty and incisive prose, how the drink shaped, and was shaped by, the history of American capitalism society....

Nareen is out of sync with her world in Rahimgani, where her mother, a progressive poet and a feminist, gave her in marriage. She had hoped to spare her daughter...

Meet Chris StarkaEURO*six-feet-four weighing a healthy 300 poundsaEURO*a former player of American football who as he himself is the first to accept think pretty good but don't talk that great...

Start looking for Murphy's Law and you'll find it everywhere. The queue you join always goes the sloest, can there be a rational explanation.

The "Juice Book" contains over 100 recipes for what has to be the fastest, easiest and tastiest way to get healthy - juices! Covering fruit juices, veggie juices, smoothies and...

This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to...

CLEAN AND DECENT, says the author, 'is meant to entertain, even if scholarship does keep breaking through'. Subtitled The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-closet, and of sundry...

Before she arrived at Green Gables, young Anne Shirley had a difficult early life. Orphaned as a baby, she is sent from one foster home to the next, caring for...