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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...

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.

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...

Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life...

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...

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...

Set in the dark underbelly of contemporary London, this is both an unputdownable crime thriller and a shockingly powerful, parabolic work of contemporary fiction. Eugene Burnside joined the Firm before...

'A case study in suspense' Washington Post A rare object has been found deep in the ice at the Arctic Circle. And Rachel Sexton is called to verify this game-changing...

They want you. And they want you dead. The Richard & Judy book that made Simon Kernick a star. The tense, twisting thriller you will not want to put down...

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendship In the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more . After the deaths of Antony...

A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain's surprising role in creating the wine...

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."-Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the...

The Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze was identified 150 years ago, yet its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of ongoing excavations at the Palace of Nestor at...

Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature,...

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the...

This book tells the story of the development of ideas about natural history as seen through the lives, observations and discoveries of nearly forty great naturalists, from Classical times to...

Masterly orations and letters. "House Divided" speech (1858), First Inaugural Address (1861), Gettysburg Address (1863), Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864), Second Inaugural Address (1865), 11 others. For someone who claimed...

An authority on American Indian traditions provides complete, thorough directions for creating dance drums, tomtoms, water drums, and much more. Materials include such everyday items as wooden kegs, flower pots,...

In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, bestselling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO....

An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent-and future-technology Which new technologies are bound to have the biggest impact on our lives in the years ahead? This groundbreaking...

Praise for Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken "Mike's book is a wonderful expression of authenticity in action-clear, honest, instructive, and a passionate call to be your true Divine...

Few people have heard of tiny, impoverished Equatorial Guinea. Robert Klitgaard spent 2 l/2 years there in charge of a multimillion dollar rehabilitations program. In this gripping account he leads...

"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger.... Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of...

In Cosmic Numbers , mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and...

A fascinating history of the world's changing climate, and how it has shaped our civilization Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But...

The book titled Piers Plowman by the author William Langland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Haden Black changed Theia Alderson's life when he appeared in her dreams. And to save Haden, Theia sacrificed everything, but the dangerous bargain she made could have lasting repercussions. Now...

When the body of an wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, it is soon clear to the police that the prime suspect is her Rumanian...

They came on a distant, secret night, armed and ready to kill. Their ghosts are still with us today. In June 1942 a party of German saboteurs landed by submarine...

In a time when interest in spiritual issues and the "other side" continues to grow at a phenomenal rate, George Anderson remains the premier voice among those who communicate with...

She found herself on a circular stair that led down into a great sunken theater, the stair opening onto a concrete catwalk around four huge cylinders that rested on a...

During the course of a career that has, quite literarily, moved her around the world, no country has fascinated Eden Collinsworth more than China, where she has borne witness to...