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Is there a place for personal beliefs in public life? In Acting on Conscience Frank Brennan tackles these issues head on. He looks at some of the legal, moral and...

Phil Brown's life has been one long existential crisis. His path to enlightenment has been uphill - think of climbing Everest with a colonic irrigation or two along the way....

A Dumping Ground illustrates an Aboriginal reserve's evolution under government practise, and explores the dynamics of cultural resilience through the generations.Cherbourg Settlement was a home to many, but it was...

E. G. Theodore, one of Australia's most enterprising and unusual political figures, was Treasurer and Premier of Queensland and later Federal Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia in the...

Managed funds offer investors with relatively small sums of money the opportunity to access a range of investments across a spectrum of asset classes. For savers they can offer a...

A historical opera of sweeping proportions, The Cradle and the Sword hurtles the reader from the classical ages of Greece and Persia back into the mists of prehistory, chronicling the...

From Pushcart Prize and Golden Palm winner Miha Mazzini comes the charming and unlikely story of an imitation Mariachi band in 1950s Communist Yugoslavia. When the traveling cinema comes to...

Science News , Favorite Books of 2020 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his...

In The Fire within the Eye, scientist and author David Park helps us reconceive the everyday phenomenon of light in profound ways, from spiritual meanings embedded in our culture to...

Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The...

How does a champion think? An authority on high-level achievement, Denis Waitley has studied the amazing similarities in the mental strategies of great champions in both business and sport. Distilling...

Explore the mystical power of intimate relationships in this deep personal collection of essays, prayers, and self-reflections from New York Times bestselling author and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson....

Say Good-Bye to Doubles and Triples Forever Every aspect of golf, from the swing to the follow-through, is a means to one deceptively simple end: to get the ball into...

On Children and Death is a major addition to the classic works of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, whose On Death and Dying and Living with Death and Dying have been continuing sources...

Packed with never-before published photos and stories from the popular TV series, "Sightings: UFOs" explores: - Saucers over Washington: The great American UFO flap- Deliberate Deception: UFO intercepts nuclear warhead-...

This is the story of Jamie Ray Griffin, a young black man who by virtue of his talent on the football field, finds himself suddenly thrust into a white world...

Discusses the causes, symptoms, and treatment of attention-deficit Disorder (ADD).

This is the completely revised and updated edition of this classic book on conflict resolution. Everyone Can Win is established as a leading text for numerous university courses on conflict...

An emotionally wrenching literary classic about a deformed church bellringer, the beautiful gypsy girl he rescues and the tragedy that ensues.

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control...

This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of...

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the...

A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury : the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to...

As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the...

This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of...

The story of human history throughout the world is told in this book, from the origins of humankind to the beginnings of literate civilizations. Fagan does not favour any specific...

An account of life on the terraces in the 1970s and 80s, this is an inside story of a football fan. Colin Ward's experiences at Arsenal, Chelsea and England matches,...

The incredible true story of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's discovery of the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian boy King At the beginning of the 20th century, a young unknown...

Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this...

Gina Laurel is ready to move on from her quiet life at Shelly Beach and she's got the brilliant job offer to prove it. But when her erstwhile lover and...

Just as Bob Ellis's One Hundred Days of Summer, about Tony Abbott's ascension to the Liberal leadership, was ready to hit the shelves, the nation was stunned to witness Labor...

Babies need just the simplest things to help their brains develop - touch, reading, routines. Give your baby the brightest start in life with plenty of attention, bonding and communication....

This standard textbook assists both students and ministers by providing a practical method for careful exegesis of the New Testament. Now revised in its third edition, Fee gives step-by-step analysis...

This substantial revision of a highly successful textbook takes into account the latest advances in methodology and resources. For more than two decades, Stuart has been providing a reliable step-by-step...

Fast paced, funny and ferocious, The Manuscript is a novel about a novel, and the unexpected ways that life smacks you in the face. When author Edith Scott finds herself...

Prolific Australian author, Jim Connelly, ('Mountain Boy', 'Wild Beauty') turns to his own native Gippsland in his free-wheeling account of this beautiful, varied and historic region.

This beautiful and sacred book calls upon the ancient wisdom of women leaders of the past to show how their magic and spiritual practices can ignite and initiate priestesses today,...

"I am Uluru: A Family's Story" gives a glimpse into the hitherto untold story of the family entrusted as traditional owners and custodians of arguably Australia's most iconic landmark -...

In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these...

This speculative fiction collection contains twelve stories centred around the theme of being altered by a situation. Stories include the acclaimed How to Win a War, which suggests a strategy...