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Darwin Spitfires: The real battle for Australia
Author: Anthony Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards? For...
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism
Author: Diogenes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity. The Cynics were...
The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and Public Speaking
Author: Claire Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Age range 10+ Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning, arguing...
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
Maneki Neko: The Japanese Secret to Good Luck and Happiness
Author: Nobuo Suzuki Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 What does 'good luck' look like and how do you achieve it? The Japanese have been doing it for centuries! Lucky...
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...
I Can Count
Author: Sally Morgan Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Age range 0 to 5 'I can count to ten! Can you count to ten with me?' Another testament to...
2024 Australasian Sky Guide
Author: Nick Lomb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 All you need to know about the night sky This popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb provides stargazers...
True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous knowledge and culture
Author: Terri Janke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 *Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: Indigenous Writers' Prize, presented biennially* Indigenous cultures are not terra nullius - nobody's...
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
Author: M. D. Usher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals - and our vital relationships with them....
Kindred
Author: Kirli Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 *Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* *Shortlisted for the ABIA 2020 Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* This...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
Woven: First Nations poetic conversations from the Fair Trade project
Author: Red Room Poetry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 to open up / to respond as genuinely as possible / to offer hope / we want things to change...
Animals in my Garden
Author: Bronwyn Houston Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Age range 0-3 Bronwyn Houston makes counting from one to ten so much fun! From kookaburras to ants to dragonflies,...
Origami Paper 500 sheets Rainbow Colors 6" (15 cm): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Color Combinations (Instructions for 5 Projects Included)
Author: Tuttle Studio Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 0 This pack contains 500 high-quality origami sheets printed with bright colors of the rainbow. These beautiful origami papers...
Bush Mob Counting
Author: Helen Milroy Format: Board book Number of Pages: 12 Age range 1+ The characters in Bush Mob Counting are from the 'Tales from the Bush Mob' Series of books...
Beetles of the World: A Natural History
Author: Maxwell V. L. Barclay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms...
Sharks of the World: A Complete Guide
Author: Dr. David A. Ebert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 The most comprehensive reference guide to the world's sharks - now fully revised and updated Sharks of the World...
How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction
Author: John Cassian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian...
Fog A Dox
Author: Bruce Pascoe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Age range 12 to 18 Winner, 2013 Prime Minister's Literary award, Young Adult Literature Albert Cutts is a tree feller. A...
No Longer Human: A New Translation
Author: Osamu Dazai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of...
In Praise of Shadows
Author: Junichiro Tanizaki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 52 This eloquent work on the Japanese sense of beauty explores the subtle interplay of shade and light in several important aspects...
Scaly-Tailed Possum and Echidna
Author: Cathy Goonack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 This engaging story tells how the possum got its scaly-tail and the echidna got its spikes. Passed down from generation to...
Paleontology: An Illustrated History
Author: David Bainbridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to today Humans have been stumbling upon the...
The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders
Author: Dr. Ximena Nelson (Post-Doctoral Fellow) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A beautifully illustrated guide to the natural history and breathtaking diversity of spiders around the world. Spiders are...
Respect
Author: Aunty Fay Muir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 *Longlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards: Children's* *Longlisted for the 2021 ABIAs: Children's Picture Book of the Year* *A...
Cunning Crow
Author: Gregg Dreise Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 3 to 9 Remember - beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all...
Urban Pest Management in Australia
Author: Ion Staunton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 For 23 years and through four editions, Urban Pest Management in Australia has been the major reference work for Australian pest...
Avian Architecture Revised and Expanded Edition: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build
Author: Peter Goodfellow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Describing how birds...
Kawaii Doodles: Supercute Drawings in Four Easy Steps (with over 1,250 illustrations)
Author: Yuu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Age range 7+ Doodling is cute, fun, and creative - the very essence of Kawaii culture! Japanese illustrator Yuu is known for...
Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide
Author: Mike Benton, OBE, FRSE Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologist. Paleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject...
The Complete Insect: Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution, and Ecology
Author: David A. Grimaldi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 With an astounding 3.5 million species occupying virtually every habitat on Earth, insects are one of the most diverse groups...
Easy Paper Airplanes for Kids Kit: Fold 36 Paper Planes in 12 Different Designs! (Includes 200 Stickers!)
Author: Andrew Dewar Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 0 Age range 8 to 14 Fold and fly amazing paper airplanes in minutes! Everything you need is in this...
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Author: Guido Alfani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their...
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved
Author: Thomas D. Seeley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes readers inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty...
The Ikigai Journey: A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way
Author: Hector Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Ikigai is the place where our passion (what we love), mission (what we hope to contribute), vocation (the gifts we have...
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
Author: Verity Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A humanist manifesto for the age of AI. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's...
A Tree in the House: Flowers for Your Home, Special Occasions and Every Day
Author: Annabelle Hickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A Tree in the House is part guide for the aspiring home florist, and part celebration of rural life in sync...
Books Make Good Friends: A Bibliophile Book
Author: Jane Mount Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 This new picture book from beloved author-illustrator Jane Mount celebrates the avid reader, demonstrates how books make you better, and reassures...
Kelly Wearstler: Synchronicity
Author: Kelly Wearstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Kelly Wearstler, one of the most irreverent and successful designers working today, continues to push boundaries with her inventive and opulent...
Wordsearches for 6 Year Olds: Over 130 Puzzles to Boost Your Vocabulary and Spelling
Author: Gareth Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Packed with over 130 wordsearches, this book is the perfect way for 6-year-olds to boost their vocabulary and spelling. The wordsearches...
The Extreme Life of the Sea
Author: Stephen R. Palumbi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...
I Love You, Dumbo
Author: Disney Classic Format: Board book Number of Pages: 10 The things that make you special are what make you special to me. Join Dumbo's mother as she tells Dumbo...
Pass the Parcel: A Party Game
Author: Louise Lockhart Format: Other printed item Number of Pages: 1 Pass the Parcel is an illustrated version of the traditional British parlour game where everyone wins! It's perfect for...
The World According to Lee McQueen
Author: Louise Rytter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 'When times are hard, fantasy and escapism are crucial' Alexander McQueen Having grown up in London's East End, Alexander McQueen left...
The Spider: The only serial killer crime thriller you need to read this year
Author: Lars Kepler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening text about a gun with nine white bullets - one...