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Don`t Get MAD Get Wise - Why no one ever makes you angry!
We all have some anger in our hearts, and it corrodes relationships everywhere, from the individual to the international. But anger is never healthy or justified. This is not a...
Madame Tussaud
Young Marie first showed a talent for life modelling as a teenager. Sent to live in the royal household, she started sculpting famous figures, including King Louis XVI himself. When...
Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds
This volume discusses the implications of teaching our computers and robots to think. The authors, a paleontologist and an artificial intelligence guru, team up to present some of the sociological,...
The World to Come: from Christian Past to Global Future
In Lloyd Geering's most controversial book so far, he examines the world at the end of the twentieth century, with the wisdom of a man who has lived through much...
Jolt
'We ran, down through the thick bush below the slip, Rebecca leading. Lisa's light pack slung over one shoulder and bouncing wildly, as if it was as frightened as the...
Unfinished Journeys
This book documents recent journeys to far-flung destinations throughout the world by thirteen Australian artists charged with the mission of recording their experiences in their own unique artistic terms. Each...
Cyberspace for Beginners
Cyberspace is a late 20th-century word for a world of information accessible via computer technology. Limited only by our imagination and the interface between ourselves and the machine, cyberspace can...
Where the Heart Is: Brother's best friend and opposites attract in
Hearts are on the line when a marriage of convenience goes awry... Pitch-perfect rural romance for readers of Karly Lane and Mandy Magro. Home is where the heart is and...
Penelope Goes West: On the road from Sydney to Margaret River and back
Tim Bowden loves travelling and camping and has a great interest in Australian history. So, when he decided to take off to Western Australia with his wife Ros and their...
The Breaker
'.a masterful combination of suspense, mystery and psychology.in short, another triumph.' Canberra Times Ms Walters plots so carefully, intelligently and subtly that the reader submits eagerly to the tangle of...
Ranger's Apprentice 8: The Kings of Clonmel
One Ranger can stop a riot, but this time two Rangers may not be enough . . . One Ranger can stop a riot, but this time two Rangers may...
The Scold's Bridle
Mean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days - wrists slashed, pills spilled, body cold in the bath. Her death shouts suicide, but would even Mathilda have been crazy...
The Echo
Who was Billy Blake? And why did he die of starvation beside a freezer full of food in one of the wealthiest parts of London? Mike Deacon, a cynical and...
The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary
In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough success turns out to be associated with a clearly...
Inside 60 Minutes
"60 Minutes" is Australia's most successful current affairs programme, watched each week by millions. This insider's story by a producer with more than nine years direct working experience on the...
Dogs
These portraits taken by a true animal lover feature pets chosen from among the top specimens of each breed.
The Great Wall of China
Recent discoveries suggest that construction of defensive walls in northern China began about 688 BC. Today, the dragon-like walls that follow the mountain ridges and valleys north of Beijing were...
Time Vandals
Imagine that you had a unique set of genes that allowed you to travel to alternative worlds safely - when nobody else could. And imagine that somebody had opened a...
Risky Business
People going into business often obtain advice from professional advisers about how to structure the business. For example, should they operate as sole traders, in partnership, through a company or...
The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's
George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...
The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan
Just as a person contrives a style, the purpose of which is integration and the effect of which is presentation, so a nation collectively projects an appearance, a "national" style....
The Cat Breed Handbook: The Complete Reference from Abyssinians to
The complete reference from Abyssinians to White Angoras.
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Millions of people worldwide now interact via computers, often assuming personalities of their own creation, but what are the psychological effects of such game playing? This book examines the wonders...
Science Fiction: v.2
Written in the age of technological revolution,the novels included in this edition combine the mundane with the extraordinary to unnerving effect:the pre dictions of H G Wells fiction have often...
Starting and Running a B and B: A Practical Guide to Setting Up and
Written for would-be and current B&B owners, this guide helps you assess the viability of starting and running your own B&B, with tools to make the most of your opportunities.