Only One Copy

We are now at the dawn of the urban century. What does it mean that half the earth's people now live in cities - and that two billion more will...

YEARS 7 - 10 "The Quest Series" has enjoyed immense popularity with students and teachers of New South Wales junior history. It represents the source-based inquiry approach to history. *...

From a new voice in crime fiction, this focuses on Timothy Waverly, once professor now professional gambler, who after seven years in prison, returns to face his former lives there....

The "honorable men" who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and...

The book titled A Personal History of Thirst by the author John Burdett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the bestselling author of The Empty Chair comes the suspenseful story of a computer hacker--code-named PHATE--on a Silicon Valley killing spree. Hot on his trail are ex-hacker Wyatt Gillette...

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

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year "Excellent...A fascinating, authoritative account of the paths for China's future explored during a...

The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership. Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading...

Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award "Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against...

An awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins-how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet. Each fall, a robin begins the long trek...

"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this...

Webtoons-a form of comic that are typically published digitally in chapter form-are the latest manifestation of the Korean Wave of popular culture that has increasingly caught on across the globe,...

Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year "Ambitious and impressive At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain,...

An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner A Progressive Book of the Year A TechCrunch Favorite Read of the Year "This subtle, important book forces rethinking not just about...

A young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key to happiness is not goal-driven striving but forging a life that integrates self-possession, friendship, and engagement...

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep. The...

Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources...

An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a...

Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities...

Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of...

The 'world atlas of warfare' provides an in-depth chronological survey of military history from the neolithic era until the present day, with special emphasis on csritical turning points in the...

As the religious rhetoric of the culture wars escalates, New York Times bestselling author and eminent scholar Wills explores the meaning of Jesus' teachings.

John Abernethy has seized life with both hands. A man of the land and the sea, he fought in Vietnam, started a successful fishing charter business and owned a horse...

The unwashed man woken by kookaburras at first light and his unlikely friendship with Benny, whose life on the street started when he was ten years old; the young woman...

When the daughter of a senior police officer is abducted and brutally gang-raped in Australia's Snowy Mountains, it's the final straw for some highly trained Vietnam veterans. They've lost children...

Penny Olsen will discuss her new book about early European impressions of Australia's curious mammals on Thursday 4 November, 4.00 pm, National Library of Australia - Conference Room. This free...

The book titled Before the Day After: Can N.A.T.O.Defend Europe? by the author Laurence Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Have a seat in the parlour and spend a rollicking evening with this elegant box of 50 Victorian-era entertainments. Have a seat in the parlour and spend a rollicking evening...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of change - the key difference that separates it...

The book titled Fair at Sokolniki by the author Fridrikh Neznansky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A detective novel set in medieval Oxford and featuring real historical figures. Town and gown are at loggerheads as the barons prepare to challenge Henry III's authority, and the university...

The book titled The Hammer of God by the author Sir Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled How the World Was One: Turbulent History of Global Communications by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories by the author Janwillem van de Wetering. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Questions of Identity by the author Bob Cook. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

No one wanted to say it to me, that the girls were dead. But I knew. Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have returned to Los Angeles,...

Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When Mr Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought...

Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and...

Tired of traditional reality shows, the television audience wants blood, literally. One day, while out taking a walk in the Jardin des Plantes, Pannonique finds herself piled into a cattle-truck....

It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism has provoked panic in politicans and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere -...

The D-day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on...

Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu, his first work of fiction in five years. Mr Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy...

The book titled A Taste for Death by the author P. D. James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A unique and often hilarious travel memoir covering Dan Kieran's satirical 'crime spree' around the UK as he uncovers fascinating and disturbing truths about the state of post-Blair Britain. Originally...

In 1876, three US Army scouts leading an infantry column arrive at the scene of the Battle of Bighorn on the morning after General Custer's defeat. They are the first...