Best Sellers - Individual titles

The book titled Lobster Quadrille by the author Lewis Carroll. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Treasures of the State Library of New South Wales: the Australiana by the author Anne Robertson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Tales of Mystery and Imagination by the author Edgar Allan Poe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From Icelandic Solitaries to A Fold in the Light, this book brings together a selection of Alan Gould's finest poems spanning three decades. In this compilation of older and newly...

Shovel-nose sharks, dingoes, the morning star and rainbows feature in 'paint-up'; the age-old practice of decorating the bodies of dancers for the corroboree. Amanda Ahern became fascinated with the distinctive...

Heins includes twelve fables . . . written by nineteenth-century Russian fabulist and poet Ivan Krylov. . . . The fables address . . . pride, boastfulness, conceit, and greed....

A giftbook that celebrates the exotic beauty of the natural world. Robert Vavra has always searched for the exciting, the evocative, and the unexpected in what we see around us....

Focusing on the first meetings of Maoris and Europeans from 1642 to 1722, this book reassesses accounts of early meetings between these two worlds, which have been told almost exclusively...

Cuddle up together with traditional animal stories, songs and rhymes. Make happy memories with carefully chosen classics that are beautifully illustrated in full colour, and perfect to share with the...

The book titled Chironomids: from Genes to Ecosystems by the author P Cranston. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

James Blish's galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth...

The book titled Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: Journey into Bhutan by the author Katie Hickman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Drawing on interviews with leading figures such as Gorbachev and senior members of the Yeltsin team, this book examines the extraordinary changes that have occurred in Russia since 1987. It...

Using anecdotes and examples from the work of The Natural History Museum's scientists, this book introduces readers to how the natural sciences are helping to unravel some of the key...

Revised and updated for 2003-2004, this reference has a 48-page A-Z country-by-country gazetteer with information on population and land area for all the countries of the world, illustrated with flags,...

The book titled Pilgrimage: Painter's Journey from Mount Athos to Tibet by the author Paul Osborne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...

How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...

This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. Our knowledge of butterflies...

Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, ideas and tactics displace faded images in a...

Today, a combination of high quality and low price makes Chinese rugs the best value of all oriental carpets. And countries outside China itself, such as Tibet and Nepal, have...

The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by...

Designers need to make information accessible and available to everyone - but how do they arrive at such elegant and useful solutions to complicated problems? Covering a broad spectrum of...

Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization. 4 maps, and over 120...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, science and scientists made little if any recognition of the role of human relationships in the general well being of the individual....

Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark Wall.

The book titled Whistlejacket by the author John Hawkes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Shear by the author Tim Parks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book titled Claudius the God by the author Robert Graves. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Mother Crocodile by the author Birago Diop. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by the author Ian Buruma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Conventional criticism discusses Wordsworth's poetry in terms of what his writing might have meant then, around 1800. Antony Easthope writes about how we can read that poetry now, nearly 200...

Drawing upon a range of traditions from ancient forms of animal worship and myth-making to the living beliefs of tribal and nomadic peoples, this book explores the innumerable ways in...

Extensively revised and updated the Fifth Edition of this best-seller provides a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the ideas and ideals that shake and shape our political world. Written...

A "New York Times" Notable Book "The Dazzle of Day" is a brilliant and widely celebrated mixture of mainstream literary fiction and hard SF. Molly Gloss turns her attention to...

..".unique reference source...Taking nothing for granted, Nigel Rees, author, broadcaster, and authority on the popular use of language, highlights quotes that are often misremembered and/or misattributed, pinpoints remarks that are...

The book titled Photographs by the author Prince, Duke of York Andrew. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Critical Terms for Literary Study by the author Frank Lentricchia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Through tireless searches in archives and some very astute deductions these two ex-BBC television production executives have exposed a new dimension to Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE...

The book titled Paper Ambassadors: Stamps as Political Icons by the author Denis Altman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A selection of 30 science fiction writings which charts the development of science fiction this century, through a wide range of practitioners.

Of all types of literature, children's literature is perhaps the best loved, most varied, and most subtly influential. Its history is not merely a footnote to social history, but a...

The author of The Encyclopedia of Surfing returns with this definitive anthology of the best-ever writing about surfing, illustrated with classic and cutting-edge photographs and artwork. Hip and eclectic, the...

Traditional Chinese Medicine is as old as Chinese history. Building a Jade Screen explains this ancient and comprehensive system of health care in clear, accessible language to help patients understand...