Second-hand Books

A detailed and authoritative account of one of modern Hollywood s greatest actors "I've always felt like an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess." - Robert...

Iain Corness fell in love with Thailand in his youth and moved there permanently in 1997. As a settled farang, or foreigner, he enjoys a unique perspective on Thai life...

Dr Iain Corness fell in love with Thailand on a holiday in 1975, and finally managed to move there permanently in 1997. As a settled farang, or foreigner, he enjoys...

Blue Guides: Complete Cultural Guides -- This is the best-researched, best-presented, most comprehensive cultural guide to New York in the English language covering art, history, architecture and archaeology. With background...

It was not at all a suitable house for a murder. Helen Bailey is the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murray family. Tall, dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has...

Hyperproof is a system for learning the principles of analytical reasoning and proof construction, consisting of a text and a Macintosh software program. Unlike traditional treatments of first-order logic, Hyperproof...

In Francesca Rendle-Short's family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mother's moral crusading should send this daughter straight to...

A Brilliant new crime series by a major new Irish writer.Mourning the death of his father, disgraced ex-policeman Jack Taylor is slowly drinking his way to oblivion in Galway when...

How can one book be so widely appreciated and so contested? Millions revere it and many ridicule it, but the Bible is often not allowed to speak for itself. Key...

This volume helps uncover the unique patterns people weave in life. At a time of wide interest in biography, this is a set of keys to understanding the patterns and...

Powerfully and movingly written by a number of Press staffers and illustrated with striking images from the Press team. DVD includes footage taken 10 minutes after the quake, many personal...

Ripples on the Lake is a taut, tightly written paranormal thriller about what happens when a Pakeha family unwittingly invoke an ancient tohunga's curse. When an out-of-it Billy Delaney steals...

The Whanganui River at the turn of the twentieth century is a busy thoroughfare, taking sightseers through the spectacular landscape by paddle steamer and acting as highway for the sparse...

Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few...

In the spring of 1999, in the beautiful hills of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, a young white farmer was shot dead on the dirt road running from his father's farmhouse to...

Alone in the wilderness, they are picked off one by one ... Gripping, standalone romantic thriller from an author at the top of her game, for readers of The Dark...

Marrying Mary A perfect wife? Everyone in Mary's family agreed that she would make some man a perfect wife one day. Mary's problem was that the only man she had...

Inspired by a celebrated photographic exhibition in Sydney last year, First Kiss is a collection of Lisa Tomasetti's gloriously intimate portraits of couples along with interviews by actor and journalist,...

If you care about the future, read this book. You are made of water, air and the food you eat from the Earth's soil . You ARE the Earth. This...

Australian Aboriginal Paintings presents an overview of traditional Aboriginal religious paintings. They are all 'from' the Dreaming, the Tjukurrpa, the Wonggar, the Creation, and express this now, in present day...

Following the enormous success of the TV show, Backyard Blitz, this book focuses on 26 projects and shows you in detail how these backyards were transformed. There are also special...

Ready to achieve the svelte, sexy, healthy body you're designed to have? What are you waiting for? Go wild! Millions of years of evolution can't be wrong. So maybe you're...

The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country's finest writers....

Embroidery has shed its dowdy image and has a new look and a new purpose! This book introduces embroidery for a new age - sophisticaed stitchery with panache that's easy...

This book contains quotations drawn from writings and sayings of the earliest recorded times to those of the present day. It features over 6,000 quotations, arranged under more than 200...

Program Evaluation is a straightforward introduction to evaluation for beginners and practitioners. Drawing on current research, it presents an original framework for the identification of appropriate forms and approaches. It...

There was only ever one woman in the life of Jamie Niland. But Elvie McKenzie, scarred by loss and humiliation, has learned too well that if you don't love, you...

It's 1913 and Cameron McKenzie, a young Scotsman, has come to Broome hoping to find a pearl that will make his fortune. And he does, but it is stolen the...

The Fey Queen, Emajicka, is stealing the children of Grimmery for her Collection. She bathes in their nightmares to relieve her own. There is one nightmare she wants most of...

While on a business trip to Singapore in 1992, 41-year-old Peter Couche, a London-based stockbroker and father of three, suffered an irreversible brain-stem stroke. Twenty-four hours later he was paralysed:...

This is a streamlined version of De Wit and Meyer's text, "Strategy: Process, Content, Context". It contains a range of key articles with text contextualizing the debates around key issues,...

A millennium edition of the 100 Years of Popular Music, including a song from each year from 1900 to 1999. All the songs are arranged for voice and piano with...

Promoting reverence of nature and wisdom of traditional plant medicine and modern ecology, this encyclopaedia looks at the ways in which Earth energies have been understood throughout history. The author...

Illustrated with over 150 photographs from Bob Flowerdew's own garden, the book covers every aspects of organic cultivation. It incorporates the latest scientific information with the author's 15 years of...

Biography of Desire explores the conflicting , ambivalent currents of loyalty and desire through the live s of two women. Katherine, a married woman and mother of two , first...

'Martin Chuzzlewit' is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into...

From the language of Shakespeare to the US presidential campaign trail, the Bible's influence is all around us. It is the most-printed book of all time, yet, upon reading it,...