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Politics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy - a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and...

This advanced text focuses on a set of key themes and issues of particular relevance and topicality in understanding contemporary Chinese politics, economy and society. Following an overview of the...

A new series of monographs on Australian female artists, selected with series editor Natalie King, curator and Enterprise Professor at the Victorian College of the Arts. These books are compact...

A revised and updated edition of the 1994 original publication about Australian football Legend Graham 'Polly' Farmer, one of the 12 inaugural Legends to be inducted into the Australian Football...

Meet Polly Price, owner of the world's most embarrassing mother- actress and all-round airhead Arabella Diamonte. Who has just been cast in a touring production of a new play, meaning...

Polly's sixth birthday would be here any day (Well actually thirty-five sleeps away) She was counting down till the thirteenth of May There'd be a party! Yippee! Hooray! Polly was...

When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour-tempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good...

The fourth edition of this textbook builds on the strengths of the previous, considerably revised edition. It offers current perspectives and research on a complete range of the theoretical, practical...

'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and...

Loose paragraphs you can shuffle about. You can pick them up and put them down again in any order you like. Photo albums are for happy families. Children, grown-up, pass...

The number 1 bestseller in paperback. One of the greatest cricketers of all time, Ricky Ponting boasts more records than any other player in Australian history including the most wins...

In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into...

After Acorn, Snow White and Lightning offer Pony Rides at the fair, a little girl called Rosalie keeps following Acorn. She hugs him, feeds him and says they are best...

The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of WONDER. When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take...

A hilarious and irreverent toilet training book from a popular Aussie author that will have pre-schoolers giggling all the way to the poo - and the zoo! We've all got...

A fun rhyming picture book to encourage toddlers and young children to use the toilet with confidence. Toilet training can often be an extremely stressful time for both parent and...

Splash, dash! It's time for a pool bash! Grab your swimsuits, inner tubes, noodles, and floats, and jump, belly flop, or dive into this wet and wild ode to swimming...

An estimated 49 million Americans participate in cue sports, the most popular being pool, also known as pocket billiards. But for those who want to improve their game -- whether...

This is a waterproof book, full of aquatic tales - a must-have for the beach, pool or bath! A housewife surprises her family with Olympic ambitions. A party guest embarks...

An eye-opening investigation into life below the poverty line that turns received thinking on its head Winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 Why...

Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in L.A. Carolyn Henderson is P.A to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair....

The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country's leading experts on poverty. In this book he describes...

An insider reveals what can-and does-go wrong when companies shift production to China In this entertaining behind-the-scenes account, Paul Midler tells us all that is wrong with our effort to...

Pop Art remains one of the most accessible and popular movements in modern art and this beautiful volume celebrates the masterpieces and leading artists of the pop art era. Packed...

Internationally renowned artist Heiner Meyer (b.1953) utilises Pop Art strategies, combining visual material from a vast variety of contexts. His paintings combine comic figures, compositions by Picasso or Hockney, and...

A very unlucky kid must create a booth for his school carnival while avoiding disaster in the second book in The Very Worst Ever chapter book series! [REDACTED] keeps his...

In Washington the murder of a prostitute attracts little attention. For Alex Cross and his partner Sampson it is another name on the rapidly increasing list of Jane Doe murders....

From the emergence of pop art in the 1950s through to its reinvented forms in the 1980s, Pop to popism explores the dynamic engagement of art with popular culture. Drawn...

Here's something fun to bring home from the seaside. No mess. No squawking. But just as greedy. This little seagull loves chips, fish and ice cream, so keep them within...

On the beach, on the waves and under the sea - find lots of ocean things in this colourful pop-up book. With 15 pop-ups and beautifully stylish illustrations by Ingela...

Pop-Up Pals: Trucks is a fun new novelty title for toddlers from Priddy Books! This vibrant board book has a different pop-up truck on every spread from a crashing excavator...

Discover a unicorn adventure in this new addition to the hugely successful Pop-up! Peekaboo! series Meet colourful unicorns as they explore a magical kingdom in this cute baby board book...

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all?" Turn the pages of this gorgeous pop-up book and watch as the classic fairy tale magically comes to...

He was the magus of pop. He debased high art - 5,000 years of sublime visions and shimmering varnishes - and reduced it to a commodity. With a sleight of...

Nobody has been more accurate about how to profit from the future than Faith Popcorn, who in her bestselling The Popcorn Report reports on what we'll buy, where we'll work,...

This book, with its activities and colorful illustrations, will make learning fun for kids. Children join Popo, the baby elephant, on his journey to space. They explore the unknown territory...

The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination...