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Augustus: Godfather of Europe
Through his pax romana, Augustus created a united Europe and enabled ideas, and Christianity, to spread throughout its territories. In this book, Richard Holland explores the extraordinary, complex nature of...
Aloft
"From up here, a half mile above the Earth, everything looks perfect to me " Being a solo flyer made sense to Jerry Battle right from the start. For his...
Dumping Hilary?
Michael Roe is trying to give up smoking. The Sunday Times and his girlfriend Hilary. He works in television and plays in cocktail bars, where he can be found on...
The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq
In this seminal new work, Martin Shaw, a leading expert on the sociology of war, argues that the new Western way of war is in crisis. He charts the development...
The Goodbye Summer
How much change can one summer bring? If you're Caddie Winger - 32 years old, still living with her grandmother and giving piano lessons to neighborhood children - one summer...
How to Succeed with Men: Love Is a Riddle. We Have the Answer
Forget The Rules. At last, there's a guide to what men really want from a relationship written by the reigning experts on the subject- men! Gender studies specialists Ron Louis...
Elijah Greenface
Moses Aaron, one of Australia's best-known storytellers, has written a powerful new book with a life-affirming message. Joe Hagarsson is seventeen and feels abandoned by his parents. Falling under the...
Luck in the Greater West
Patrick White, a small-time crim, is struggling to make sense of his life in the suburbs. Meeting Sonja, the daughter of a Russian migrant, makes him see that there is...
The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa
$120.00 AUD
Not just a biography and much more than an illustrated book, this is a celebration of a mind and times that is as bold, entertaining and unique as the man...
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
In Private Empire award-winning reporter Steve Coll tells the truth about the world's most powerful and shadowy company. The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of...
Havana Storm: Dirk Pitt #23
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer,...
Stolen: A woman washes up on a beach, barely alive. Who is she?
Sussex , 2003 When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But...
The Last Assassin
A new thriller from Barry Eisler featuring Japanese-American assassin John Rain
Woman on the Rocks: a Tale of Two Convicts: A Tale of Two Convicts
In 1820 Mary Jones is wrongly convicted of a crime committed by her best friend. From their first encounter as domestic servants in Kent, the two women were unlikely friends,...
The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital
A few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio -we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers....
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
Welcome to Birddom - a land where magpies rule. An evil intelligen- ce is masterminding their inexorable rise. Dark forces are at work and dominance has been achieved by systematic...
Merric Boyd and Murrumbeena: The Life of an Artist in a Time and a
$60.00 AUD
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR In 1988 Colin Smith began researching the history of renowned Australian potter, Merric Boyd and his family in Murrumbeena and the relationship they had with their local community....
Body Double
Returning home from Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is greeted by a nightmarish scene. Slumped in a car in her driveway is a dead woman, a gunshot wound to...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had been to defend a wrongly convicted man, in what...
Clouds of Deceit: Deadly Legacy of Britain's Bomb Tests
Genghis Khan
The first popular biography of the legendary Mongol emperor and warlord. Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals....
Shopaholic & Baby: (Shopaholic Book 5)
Becky Bloomwood is back on form in this hilarious Shopaholic novel by bestselling author Sophie Kinsella Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting...
The Story of X
Shy student Alexandra X to her friends arrives in Naples desperate for adventure beyond the sheltered life she s led. As she explores the sun-soaked Italian city streets, she meets...
Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach
The focus of Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach, Second Editon, is on the conceptual, concrete, and applied aspects of model building, data analysis, and interpretaion. Without sacrificing depth and...
War, Aggression and Self-Defence
Yoram Dinstein's seminal textbook is an essential guide to the legal issues of war and peace, armed attack, self-defence and enforcement measures taken under the aegis of the Security Council....
The Two Koreas and the Great Powers
This book explores Korea's place in terms of multiple levels and domains of interaction pertaining to foreign-policy behaviors and relations with the four regional/global powers (China, Russia, Japan, and the...
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Crime, shame and reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that...
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move Beyond Your Past to Create an
"A beacon of hope for women and men who fear that they will pass the abuse they have suffered on to their children, partners, or employees. Humane and compassionate but...
The Making of an Engineer: An Illustrated History of Engineering
The cover illustration is the Palace of Fine Arts at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. As part of the International Congress on Engineering, 70 men convened...
Pegasus
$12.00 AUD
Because she was a princess, she had a Pegasus... Princess Sylviianel has always known that on her twelfth birthday she too would be bound to her own Pegasus. All members...
Bright Lights, Big City
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living...
War and Human Progress: An Essay on the Rise of Industrial
"This is in many respects perhaps the most important book that has been published recently. Its intellectual integrity, its humane pathos, its analytical force are exceptional. The title gives only...
Code Name Ginger
Dean Kamen is a secretive millionaire inventor who has been described as a cross between Thomas Edison and Willy Wonka. In February 1999 he invited Steve Kemper to write the...
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
A biography of America's first Renaissance man discusses Benjamin Franklin's diverse roles as a scientist, businessman, philosopher, writer, inventor, diplomat, politician, wit, and Founding Father.
Songs Without Words
$10.00 AUD
Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship...