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Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to...

'When Australian poetry soars to new heights, it's usually because poets open up to the whole place . . . they take risks and write from the core of our...

With The Best Australian Poems 2008, Peter Rose invites you to discover the most recent works of both Australia's renowned and promising poets. A journey in itself, this collection is...

The ultimate showcase of Australian poetry, with only the best of our established poets, as well as some hidden gems from previously unpublished writers.

This text is by the author of "Transformed by the Light: Life After Near-Death Experience". This book presents a collection of 18 children's near-death experiences told in their own words....

Many people have changed their thinking, and not just their travel plans, since September 11 2001. The attack on the World Trade Center has made us realise that we live...

'The sales slogan was 'Make way for the Austin Freeway'. Car buyers did more than that. They gave it the widest berth possible.' 'You may not recall the Falcon EA....

Whether you've been in love for ten weeks or ten years, you know how crazy it can make you. On any given day you can be insanely happy or maniacally...

'When an owner stood by his Triumph Stag, it was usually because he couldn't get the door open.' 'The Niki demonstrated every handling vice known to suspension engineers, plus some...

The much-anticipated sequel to the international bestseller IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE by cancer survivor and five-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, now in B format. Lance Armstrong is...

Six well known Australians embark on the journey of a lifetime as they travel to their family's country of origin, most for the first time and with a parent or...

This popular guide is a must for 2009, which has been designated the International year of Astronomy, when people around the world will be encouraged to discover their place in...

In September, 1944, Montgomery predicted that his armies would easily 'bounce the Rhine' to strike a final blow at the heart of Hitler's Reich. However, his confidence was misplaced; nearly...

An account of the battle for the Siegfried Line in the final year of World War II, which raged for six, long, bloody months along a front of 350 miles...

An historical account of the massacre, in February 1692, of the small Clan MacDonald of Glencoe by Campbell of Glenlyon's troops under orders from the English Government. It marked the...

A student's suicide note is not what it seems. A high-school football rivalry turns absurd-and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A pair...

The author of this text draws on nmore than 20 years experience as a psychotherapist to examine, spotlight and demonstrate the universality of limiting and negative beliefs. Using case histories...

Augustus Hervey was born into the wildly eccentric family of the Earls of Bristol, a lineage so different from ordinary folk that it was said there were three sexes: men,...

As 20th century sport gallops headlong towar ds the millennium post in a blanket finish, Frank Keating as ks who and what was the best of the century. '

In the last summer of Queen Victoria's reign it was not considered 'proper' for unmarried women to go travelling with members of the opposite sex. But Nell Bray can't understand...

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway...

In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but...

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about', said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But...

COMPANION TO THE COSMOS is the brilliant science populariser and an award-winning writer, John Gribbin tells us everything we want to know about the universe.

Evelyn Waugh was a loving Husband, a wise and affectionate father and the funniest English novelist of the century. This selection of letters does full justice to these splendid attribute's...

A warmhearted and turbulent novel showing how the folk of one small Liverpool street are affected in the first year of the Second World War.

If Jackie Collins were in her twenties, she might have written Career Girls - a raunchy, fast-moving novel about two girl who meet and fall out over the same man...

UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER Intoxicated with dreams of a Greek paradise, John Mole inflicts upon his family a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity,...

Behind the scenes of the 1960s TV series "Thunderbirds" is Sylvia Anderson, who co-originated the programmes and was the voice of Lady Penelope in the series. In this book, she...

This book gives designers the confidence to do everything necessary to ensure trouble-free, high-quality printing - to calibrate images (colour and black and white); adjust trapping levels in all the...