Second-hand Books

Seductively packaged pocket guides compiled by local experts who know Hong Kong inside out. These brand new guides are designed for informed, experienced travellers and those on a repeat visit...

This biography of Frank Cobbold opens when Frank goes to sea on a Clipper aged 14. It follows him through inexperience as a Fijian trader who escaped the cannibals' cook...

Pauline Neville evokes her family's recent past and recaptures the moving friendship between two cousins. This revealing memoir is also a meditation about the nature of dying and the value...

This is the first publication of Vikram Seth's libretto to coincide with the Bayliss programme, ENO's first performance of it in June 1994.

The Best Australian Essays 2009 presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that was. Whether tackling...

When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks...

For two minutes she was dead. The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal - and it left her lifeless auntil her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year...

Having found the sort of man who only comes along once in a lifetime, Lucy Hatch is head over heels in love and lust. But just as the future seems...

Lang, Harpur and Deniehy were three of the most outspoken proponents of the Australian Republic in the mid-19th century. Their arguments - concise, powerful and balanced - are as relevant...

Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to trees. The horror of what this monster does to...

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1882 and the streets of Manchester...

When a severed arm is discovered by a couple on honeymoon in the Florida Keys, former police detective - now reluctant restaurant inspector - Andrew Yancy senses that something doesn't...

From the creator of Wreck This Journal (ONE MILLION copies sold to date worldwide), this is an eye-opening treasure hunt through the creative process... Welcome to the highly inspirational world...

On the gulf of Thailand, the Juree family are managing their run-down beach resort for the second year - still stalked by disaster. Daughter Jimm has a new love in...

The book that began the series that became the legend ... NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES "The best series for Australian teens of all time." The Age "Compulsively readable" New...

At the back of a yard, not yours and not ours Lived a bed-full of raggedy, half-dying flowers For it'd been more than three months and a quarter Since Mad...

This publication presents some of the highest artistic achievements in Chinese history. Drawing on the exceptional collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Heaven and earth in Chinese art:...

Winner of the Travel Media Awards 2021 Guide of the Year. Facing the Atlantic with its Spanish colonial core, wedding-cake mansions, Art-Deco towers and preserved-1950s hotels, Havana is utterly gorgeous....

Profiles 23 gardeners from various backgrounds who are growing food in the backyards of the towns and cities they live in. These are innovative, environmental, working gardens that give their...

Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, is one of the most popular and prophetic religious voices in the world today. In her many books and countless speeches, she has addressed the...

As a busy teen star, Reed Alexander's life is a balancing act. Several years ago, as he juggled career commitments and school, he lost sight of how to eat right,...

No other sport requires more agility and flexibility than surfing. Wiping out is no fun and a solid flexibility program will help prevent injuries and keep you surfing longer and...

World-renowned gemmologist, Helen Molesworth traces the journey of gems, showing how their remarkable stories are a sparkling new way of exploring the history of humanity. 'A gem of a book'...

He said, "In this land of enchantment, where the desert sends khamsin to mercilessly humble us with its yellow sands, fiction and reality mix and blur its disparities. Here, miles...

Bestselling author David Agus unveils the brave new world of medicine, one in which we can take control of our health like never before and doctors can fine-tune strategies and...

Author: Dean C. CurryBinding: PaperbackPublished: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageEvangelicals And The Bishops' Pastoral Letter by Dean C....

Author: Creighton BurnsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1962Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Tait Case chronicles a compelling legal battle, presenting a...

Author: J. Marjorie ButlerBinding: PaperbackPublished: Neptune Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSettler By Succession chronicles the intricate lives of a family...

Understanding God's plan to renew the earth connects what Christians learn on Sunday mornings with the rest of the week-shaping their mission as they discover purpose in all their daily...

"Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is using the chapel...

The Updated Fourth Edition of the Award-Winning Book that Offers Beginning Educators Everything They Need in Order to Survive and Thrive! Designed for new educators, this award-winning book covers the...

Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy explores what it means to be a literacy educator in the 21st century. It promotes a reflective and inquiry-based approach to literacy teaching...

Making Sense of Mass Education provides a comprehensive analysis of the field of mass education. The book presents new assessment of traditional issues associated with education - class, race, gender,...

Understanding Curriculum: An Australian Context encourages readers to reflect on how curriculum theory can enhance classroom practice. This book provides a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice, outlining...

The boss secretly wed her... then forgot! Ares Demetrius wakes from a coma to find his family scheming to steal his company. The first call the billionaire makes is to...

For better or worse she's having his heir! Alessandra. I could have destroyed my hard-won legal career with one indulgent encounter. My anonymous lover was Michail Sullivan, the illegitimate son...

An off-limits temptation... fit for a royal! Though Crown Prince Gabriel Montroy hates the media, he was raised to always put his kingdom first. When his political opponents rile up...

An engagement for show. A chemistry they can't fake. Since being jilted on the eve of his wedding, tycoon Jago Wilde won't entertain marriage or commitment. Except he'll do anything...

Payback against Her Highness starts with 'I do'... As scandal and debt threaten the throne, widowed Princess Bettina is being forced down the aisle once again . Worse still? Her...

Author: Barry NurcombeBinding: PaperbackPublished: East-West Center, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageChildren Of The Dispossessed presents a compelling sociological examination...