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Halfway to Good
It's the first day of Term One, and Luke and Anna are on opposite sides of the student-teacher divide. School is the last thing Luke feels like - how can...
Black Water
The wind, blasting up over the horizon from the south, carried with it the coldness of polar ice, and wielded it like a sword. Already the waves at the Heads...
Surviving Adolescents
Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense...
Why Haven't I Lost Weight Yet?: The Unique Energy Diet Shows You How
The Energy DietRevolutionary new weight-loss programHave you tried the GI diet, the low-carb diet, the high-carb diet and wondered why they didn't work for you?The real secret of weight loss...
The Truth About Forever
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From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All Expect the unexpected. Macy's got her whole summer carefully planned. But her plans didn't include a...
Lock and Key
The latest unputdownable novel from the hugely popular Sarah Dessen, whose fanbase just keeps growing. Ruby Cooper likes to expect the worst. That way, she's never disappointed. Abandoned by her...
King Dork
Tom Henderson is small, skinny and awkward, and pretty much feels like an idiot most of the time. But when he discovers his father's copy of "The Catcher in the...
The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers
The Lightness of Being is a tour de force, revealing a universe where matter is the hum of strange music, mass doesn't weigh, and empty space is a multilayered, multicoloured...
Devil May Care
The literary event of 2008 - set to be the biggest paperback of 2009... Bond is back. With a vengeance. M has summoned agent 007 to London. It's the swinging...
Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
When the figures say crime is falling, why are we more frightened than ever? Could our towns and cities be creating fear and mistrust? More property is being built in...
Faust: Pt.1
A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of Faust is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.
Danny, the Champion of the World
annys dad had a secret, but now the secrets out and its going to lead Danny on the adventure of a lifetime.
Bots: The Origin of New Species
$12.00 AUD
Bots is the story of cyberspace's first indigenous species. Strings of code, bots are a software version of a mechanical robot. Originally meant to do our bidding, when unleashed by...
The World Since 1945
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF GLOBAL CHANGE FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT DAY The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West - particularly the...
Why Children Can't Read: And what We Can do About IT
A survey conducted in 1993 discovered that 22% of adults were functionally illiterate and that 43% of 9 year olds fell below 'basic level' skills in reading and writing. Over...
The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-95
This text contains 54 of Martin Gardner's most searching and challenging essays, spanning nearly six decades. Issues tackled range from the apparent inexplicability of quantum physics to the eternal question...
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their
This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production,...
The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
Moving on from his books on chaos ("Does God Play Dice?") and symmetry ("Fearful Symmetry"), the author of this book deals with the wider field of complexity theory. The book...
The Essence of Compilers
The compiler tools covered within this text are Lex and YACC, whose uses are shown both through examples concerned with compiler construction and examples concerned with other syntax-directed tools, such...
Programming on Purpose
A guided tour of numerous software design methods, this volume collects into book form a variety of articles from P.J. Plauger's monthly column Programming on Purpose which has been entertaining...
The Essence of Artificial Intelligence: The Essence of Artificial
The Prentice Hall Essence of Computing Series provides a concise, practical and uniform introduction to the core components of an undergraduate computer science degree. Acknowledging the recent changes within Higher...
The Essence of Logic
The books in this series provide a concise, practical introduction to the core components of an undergraduate computer science degree. Acknowledging recent changes within Higher Education, this approach uses a...
Essence of Discrete Mathematics
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The Prentice Hall "Essence of Computing" series provides a concise, practical and uniform introduction to the core components of an undergraduate computer science degree. Acknowledging recent changes within Higher Education,...
Cyclecraft: the complete guide to safe and enjoyable cycling for
$12.00 AUD
Become a safe and responsible cyclist with Cyclecraft - The complete guide to safe and enjoyable cycling for adults and children. Whether you are new to cycling, looking to extend...
Queen of Scots
A very enjoyable, nicely illustrated book on one of royalty's most captivating personalities: Mary, Queen of Scots. Her rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I, over Mary's claim to the throne of...
Bullet Proof
FIVE TOURS OF DUTY. ONE HEROIC ACT. SECONDS FROM DEATH... AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008- in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of...
First Love
Adam and Sandra are dancers, friends since they were fifteen, now lovers. She is in the corps of the New York City Ballet and has just caught the eye of...
The Human Zoo
A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape. A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered...
Whisky Galore
Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle...
Mouthing The Words
'You won't find a more passionate voice-smart, punchy prose - a smashing combination of the heartbreaking and the hilarious' - Vogue Thelma is six years old. Life at home is...
Turing and the Computer
The computer has revolutionised the modern age of communication and information. It has touched every part of modern working life to the extent that it would now be inconceivable without...
Newton and Gravity
Newton is one of the most influential scientists the world has ever known. He changed the way we viewed the universe by showing how it really worked - developing the...
Crick, Watson and DNA
DNA - the very building blocks of life. Its discovery by Francis Crick and James Watson has had astounding implications for mankind's present and future - opening up a whole...
The You Code: What your habits say about you
The only book to tell you what your habits say about you - and how to read other people - by Judi James, author of The Body Language Bible Did...
Into the Light
Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire...
More Letters From A Nut: With an introduction by Jerry Seinfeld
Hilarious spoof letters from the king of correspondence Ted L Nancy continues his gently surreal correspondence with the great and the good. His hilarious and bizarre letters - as before...
The Art Of Leading Yourself: Tap the power of your emotional
'Like the tip of a great iceberg, the true significance of our emotional intelligence is only now being uncovered. THE ART OF LEADING YOURSELF is a superb book that teaches...
500 Popular Indoor Plants
Never out of style, plants are one of the most enduring popular home ornaments. Their natural good looks suit any type of decorating theme and recent research shows that foliage...
