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A collection of paintings featuring great artists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries presented in a convenient square format. Paintings of 16 artists are presented in this series that include...

The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...

The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...

While the attention of the West has been fixed on the USSR and Eastern Europe, a quieter, cumulative revolution has been taking place in Asia which may have even more...

Drawing on more than three decades of first-hand observations and interviews with politicians, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, Naisbitt identifies eight principal trends that are shaping Asia into a new network...

After a 5-0 demolition of Bayside Blues in Pennendale Primary's first real match, Megs is on cloud nine. Particularly after bagging a hat-trick with half the school watching. But after...

The Mekong is one of the world's great rivers, and by far the largest in Southeast Asia. Empires have risen and fallen in the lands through which the Mekong flows,...

David Russell knows there is more to bike riding in Melbourne than the weekend bunch at Beach Road and it shows. From Altona to Frankston Where to Ride Melbourne features...

Radiating outwards from the chic city are awe-inspiring scenic wonders the vast, windswept vistas of the Great Ocean Road with the Twelve Apostles to the west and the penguin paradise...

For over a decade this best selling title is the bible to Melbourne's parks and trails. More than 55,000 copies sold and still in high demand.The only comprehensive 'where to...

OBSERVER BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE Oh friend, take my hand - I've been so lonely! One winter night in Prague,...

Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe--until a dreadful mine accident ripped...

Operation Meltwater: FreeFlow, a group of internet activists committed to the freedom of information have video evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and have chosen Iceland as...

Herman Melville was born into a family that in the fledgling republic had lost both money and status. Toughened at sea as a young man, he returned home to chronicle...

MELVIN BEEDERMAN SUPERHERO"From: grateful@fred.comTo: melvin@beederman.comDear Melvin,We need your help. Someone has been sending us threatening letters. We don't know who it is. Please come to our concert tonight, just in...

This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature. A classic family story, told with exceptional...

This is an insider's account of the regulation of the medical profession in Australia and key issues in medical ethics and professional conduct that continue to bedevil medical practice. As...

The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a...

Dragon Hunter Wanted: Sword supplied. No experience necessary. One moment, I was a normal (if somewhat germaphobic) math teacher getting ready for summer vacation. Then my sister died in a...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry , Gabrielle Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is...

My name is BUDO. I have been alive for 5 years. 5 years is a very long time for someone like me to be alive. MAX gave me my name....

Some 30 years after Christ's crucifixion, Pontius Pilate, aged and exiled to Gaul, reflects on his governorship of Judea and the life and death of Jesus.

Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of...

When a spike in CIA intelligence suggests a major terrorist attack planned for Memorial Day, the president orders Mitch Rapp, his top counterterrorism operative, to pull out all the stops....

As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketches in his trademark witty, observational...

Memories of Maggie brings together personal reminiscenes and anecdotes from those who experienced close encounters with the Iron Lady, including Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson, Kenneth Baker, George Bush, Helmut Kohl,...

Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays...

Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for...

This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature,...

IN 2000, well-known Crewe photographer Gordon Davies spent many hundreds of hours trawling through his extensive picture archive to produce his first book Memory Lane Crewe. He followed this up...

Sometime between claiming my first Social Security check at 62 and signing on with Medicare at 65, I heard an offhand comment by a fellow writer from the same age...

In the tradition of Sherwin Nuland and Jerome Groopman, respected gerontologist Winakur recounts his personal struggles with his ageing father while drawing upon his broad experience as a physician to...

Nelson Dellis, the four-time USA Memory Champion, reveals the secrets to his phenomenal ability to remember almost anything. From presidents to state capitals, from mathematical theorems to the periodic table,...