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In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry--a sort of "My Dinner with" not Andre, but five of...

The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but also...

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence. At the...

This work recreates the solutions to the five greatest mathematical problems of all time: The Four-Colour Map Problem, Fermat's Last Theorem, The Continuum Hypothesis, Kepler's Conjecture, and Hilbert's Tenth Problem....

Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who...

Adam Silvera reminds us that there's no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course...

It is hard to recall what powerful moral voices Protestant church leaders had in the formative years of the nation. Gustav Niebuhr travels back to the Minnesota frontier of 1862...

Cokie Roberts, the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty , turns her attention to the Civil War in a riveting exploration of...

The fourth book of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! John Smith--Number Four--thought that things would change once he and Nine reunited with the others....

"Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." -- The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contemporary military historian." -- The Economist An...

Sometimes all a woman needs is a great pair of shoes - sometimes chocolate is the swiftest route to happiness. In this beautifully produced collection of drawings specifically for women,...

A wild and wonderful exploration of the history of the Rose Tree -- or RhododendronFrom the giant, long-lived Rhododendron falconeri, with its peeling cinnamon bark on sculptured trunks to the...

A rejacket of the NRSV Cross Reference Bible with the Deuterocanonical books/Apocrypha The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is steadily increasing in popularity. It is highly respected among...

In 2016, Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency ended in defeat. Still, he changed everything, as the 2020 primary race attests, Sanders's once marginal watchwords are the new litmus tests....

This financial guidebook combines time-tested, expert advice with fresh insights into how money works today and how you can earn, spend and invest your way towards living your best life....

Taking its cue from Diary of a Provincial Lady , EM Delafield's dry-witted classic of domesticity and other vexations, Diary Of A Suburban Lady is a comic novel about the...

Dreams are a window into the subconscious. We all spend an average of two hours per night dreaming and often these dreams are muddled without a clear meaning and making...

'Guglani is the real deal' Michael Faber 'Profound . . . Poetic . . . Humane' Gabriel Weston 'Shows rare skill . . . Power and fear and morality' Sarah...

'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking...

Since war is among the oldest of human activities - long antedating the invention of writing - presumably the earliest attempts to record it took the form of poems or...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and...

From the multi-award-winning author of Twice Born comes this dazzling, emotionally charged tale of two mothers' fight to protect their children's futures When the water is safer than the land......

Fans of the adorable characters in The Quiet Book will love this seasonal romp through the alphabet. Will have definite trade and gift appeal due to Teagan White's sweet anthropomorphic...

Cake is about so much more than just flavour. Cake is history, nostalgia, cultural DNA and therapy. Cake is also theatre. The visual forms of cake speak a language of...

Dharma the Llama doesn't run with the herd. She likes to do things her own way. The other llamas don't understand why she's always reading. But when the herd get...

Celeste was a friendly, happy little giraffe. She had a kind heart and she made others laugh. But Celeste sometimes worried that she wasn't enough. It seemed like other animals...

A passionate, illuminating tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers, by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser. 'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from...

This series deals with emotive issues that children face in direct and gentle terms, allowing children's feelings and problems to be more easily shared and discussed with family and friends....

Foothand Elbownose tells the story of an unhappy foot, and a boy who just wants what's best for everyone. Max's foot is fed up and wants to be a hand...

IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY! And your birthday just happens to be in THE BEST month of the year: January! A special book for all January birthday boys.

How can sheep help you sleep?They climb through the window and walk through the door.They sit on my bed and jump on the floor.They play hide and seek. They go...

Do you know your porters from your pales and your stouts from your saisons? Are you a home-brewing legend or a draught devotee? Or do you think dubbels and tripels...

In the ruthless pursuit of scientific fact, there is no candidate more formidable than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Power hungry for experimentation, data manipulation and outlandish science propaganda, Dr Karl is...

Everyone's afraid of something. Hairy toes, cockroaches, robbers...Katz and Vane have combined their talents again to create an A to Z of Scary -- from Alien Zombies to being in...

Why use superfoods? Superfood drinks contain ingredients that provide an exceptional amount of nutrition per serving and make for a nutritional foundation on which a life full of health and...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* Uncover the awesome real world of wonders, find out fantastic facts, be stunned by the truly surprising and let you mind be...

Beans are one of the food world's most versatile ingredients. Not only are they delicious, they are packed full of protein, fibre and nutrients. Bean Cooking is the ultimate cookbook...

From the drama of its geological wonders to its unique flora and fauna, the abundance of its birdlife and the stark beauty of its arid interior, Australia's remarkable diversity is...

Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small Tunisian cafe in Paris. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe...

On 13 September 2007 the General Assembly of the United Nations, with an overwhelming majority of votes, adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration was over...

A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But...

Magenta is a girl who has known little joy in love, until an auspicious encounter with an Aztec love interest breakes the drought. Although the omens assure a victorious union,...

This little book is packed with masses of knowledge, facts and figures about all things scientific including: the Universe and our solar system; the earth, its biospheres and its nations;...