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Fed up with bland conformity? Secret Girls' Business will put the individuality and creative spark back into your life. Craft, stories, fashion tips, recipes and helpful advice will inspire you...

We would all like to have a personal trainer. What we actually need is a food coach. Judy Davie shows us how to shop, cook and eat healthily without ever...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Join the Adamson family on their second holiday in the sun, sand and surf. Become intrigued as mystery unfolds on the South Coast of NSW as the kids...

Have you ever asked yourself: 'With all my training, knowledge, skills, background, attributes and brilliance ... why am I still broke?' Countless people find themselves in this same position, feeling...

Less Venus in Furs, more Derek in Buxton. Interested? Write to Derek in Buxton. Box 977. RU4ME? Contemplating internet dating? Wondering why anyone would? Fantasising about what you'd find? Fretting...

A memoir from veteran entertainer Cameron Daddo about confidence: how we nurture it, how we lose it and how we can get it back again Multi-talented Cameron Daddo has been...

What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life? The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In...

The Blues tells the back stories to the 300-plus New South Welshmen who have contested the legendary State of Origin series. This is more than a rugby league book. It's...

Computer technology has transformed many fundamental parts of life: how we work and play, how we communicate and consume, how we create knowledge and learn, even how we understand politics...

An edition of Euclid's Elements of Geometry consisting of the definitive Greek text of J.L. Heiberg (1883-1885) accompanied by a modern English translation and a Greek-English lexicon. This edition contains...

The highly-acclaimed Millpond Children's Sleep Clinic has a 97 per cent success rate in resolving children's sleep problems. Discover how to get your baby or child to settle easily and...

This is the ultimate instruction manual for budding magicians; Following on from the success of Complete Book of Card Games (0 600 60413 6); Astound your friends and family with...

A fun, timely, and optimistic treatment of the big ideas that every citizen of the 21st century should know if they want to understand how intelligent machines operating on massive...

Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous...

'An important reappraisal of the last century's greatest violinist by the doyen of musical biographers.' Observer 'It was an extraordinary life . . . Burton chronicles it with the same...

The response of one poet to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they...

Pamela Pryor's son has, at last, left home. She feels free but also strangely restless. There have been three significant men in her life - Peter, her ex-husband; Douglas, style...

A delightfully warm, brand-new Christmas story, starring Jacqueline Wilson's beloved Victorian foundling, Hetty Feather. Are you longing for Christmas? Can't wait to warm yourself by the fireplace, drinking hot cocoa...

Sentinel Chickens shows us how birds provide insights at the cutting edge of science and merit our sustained attention. 'The idea of 'sentinel chickens' seemed pretty incongruous when I first...

This is a fully bilingual dictionary of English and French for intermediate learners. It is especially suitable for learners of English and includes over 60,000 words, phrases and examples. It...

Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and...

In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective, and responds to complex issues of women's desire and power. Even though...

Hailed as one of the '21 Most Important People of the 21st Century' by Esquire magazine in recognition of his contribution to contemporary visual culture, John Maeda's mission is to...

Of all developments surrounding hypermedia, none has been as hotly or frequently debated as the conjunction of fiction and digital technology. J. Yellowlees Douglas considers the implications of this union....

Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the...

Are your clothes making you look fat How else do you explain how some days you look your thinnest and other days you don't -when you weigh exactly the same...

Since Susannah Cates husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant struggle to provide for herself and their teenage daughter. Nothing ever seems to go...

"Over the next few decades, immersive media could fundamentally change the ways humans engage in entertainment, communication, and social interaction. The current volume takes a step towards understanding this potential...

From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television...

Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N....

Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural catagories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre:...

The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turning their attention to next-generation...

Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II...

The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One...

Mobile media -- from mobile phones to smartphones to netbooks -- are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we locate, we network, we play, and much more using our mobile...