Second-hand Books

Big art for little hands this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to colour outside the...

In winter 2006, under the stewardship of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from the IUAV University in Venice fanned out to subject their city to a forensic structural...

The Museo del Prado not only houses the largest collection of Spanish painting from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century, but also represents an entire history of the classical...

The VW Bus is not just a car. It is sentimental, a part of the family. A way of life on wheels. That's why most of them have names. And...

Explore Constantin Brancusi's oeuvre through the playful form of a dictionary. Constantin Brancusi (1876 1957), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism,...

Mies van der Rohe's 1941-45 Farnsworth House & Garden and Philip Johnson's 1947 Glass House in New Caanan, CT are two haikus of glass and concrete that rewrote the history...

Caught in a Love Triangle Between a Chiropractor and a Cowboy Veterinary student Miranda Graaf returns home to her family farm in Dewitt, Iowa to help care for her ailing...

Magic. Romance. Rivals. Perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Falling Kingdoms, and Tamora Pierce. Before the age of seventeen, the young men and women of Jerar are given a...

Is 'hustle and grind' really the message of The New Way? Is financial freedom really what it's about? Is 'living life on our terms' really the summit of this mission?...

The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the...

You Can't Win , the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press,...

Internal fraud is costing U.S. companies over $500 billion annually. To make matters worse no business is immune. Internal fraud is happening everywhere! In his revolutionary book, one of the...

Can the planets predict economic conditions? In the second edition of Time and Money, best-selling author Robert Gover links the planets to major economic turning points in US history, going...

Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself drafted against her will in a faerie war between the Summer and Winter Courts, the WAR...

An award-winning journalist tells her haunting family story. Diana Wichtel was born in Vancouver. Her mother was a New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew who had jumped off a...

Now a major motion-picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson. #1 New York Times bestseller, and a widely acclaimed and multi-award-winning book, this is a powerful, true...

A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises. Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On...

WHAT DOES IT REALLY TAKE TO SURVIVE IN THE START-UP SCENE? WHY DO SOME VENTURES THRIVE WHILST OTHERS CRUMBLE? HOW DOES A BRAND THE WORLD LOVES END UP IN FINANCIAL...

Natalie King is back- back from a stay on the psych ward. Her reluctance to live a quiet life has contributed to a severe depressive episode, and now it's time...

David's two teenage sons won't do their homework and don't like the bolognaise sauce he has cooked, his bicycle tyre is flat, the current subject of romantic interest hasn't phoned...

Forty-four attempts have been made to change the Australian Constitution since Federation in 1901 but only eight of those attempts have been successful.In 2022, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese decided to...

The happy accident that created wi-fi. The well-placed piece of coral that saved the Endeavour from sinking. The stroke of luck that made Hugh Jackman Wolverine. Australia may be known...

MITCH LARSSON LIVED THE REGULAR LIFE OF A MARRIED FATHER, UNTIL A SNAP DECISION MADE IN HIS FORTIES CHANGED HIS LIFE AND THE LIVES OF MANY WOMEN... Time for Her...

'Delicately balances the joy and pain of what it is to be human with love and humour... an impossibly beautiful story.' - Meredith Jaff Nessa keeps the world at arm's...

One woman, two men. What if she doesn't have to choose? Overcome with guilt about a love affair she can't give up, Anna confesses to her husband, Brendan. He is...

How does a city go from being the world's most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Businesses were forcibly closed, classrooms...

What if the life you have is already more than enough? Our relentless pursuit of 'more' never seems to reach 'enough'. Rather than joining the line of books trying to...

Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project , a daily primetime television news and current affairs programme, he is one Australia's leading...

Just as you were getting comfortable with a digital world, here comes the material revolution, a transformation in the production and distribution of, well, everything. 3D printing has broken out...

When Eula Biss became a mother, she stepped into a new world of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, the contents of her child's air, food, mattress and...

Intractable social problems persist despite legal sanctions and economic incentives. It is time to try a new approach. The answer may lay in culture - using creativity, story telling and...

Being Peta provides a brave, honest firsthand account by a young person of what it's like to live with leukaemia. It is a book that will provide comfort and companionship...

A timely and groundbreaking edition of Griffith REVIEW exploring the changing relationship between women and power in public and private spheres, in Australia and the world. In one generation, women...

Being little is no good. That's because being big is better. Except when being little is best of all.

Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with...

TODAY, THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY IS IN CRISIS. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at...

What's the Matter, Aunty May? When the Help becomes a hindrance, Aunty May is left clean out of patience. In this ultimate portrait of childhood optimism and cheer, the narrator...

Original Skin is the grand and sweeping story of our largest organ - the exquisitely sensitive, constantly reactive, and staunchly protective human skin. Our skin is where we end and...

In his latest collection, Ryle brings together the best cock and bull stories from the local pub, the sale yard, the track and his own remarkable life. Have you heard...

All of the spring recipes from Maggie's Harvest, featuring delicious recipes that make the best of seasonal spring produce. Maggie Beer's Spring Harvest Recipes brings together all of Maggie Beer's...

'Vegetables are masterpieces of human ingenuity - their pasts and futures are in our hands.' How often do you hear someone complain that tomatoes don't taste like they used to?...

Christine is in a purple patch of her life. Recently retired, she has big plans for the future and decides to keep a journal. This is her time: time to...

With its comprehensive coverage of the world through detailed cartography, informative text and the compilation of thematic maps to provide an overview of global data, this is an essential reference...

The poems in amphora seize on the miraculous moments contained in life and language, interrogating them with scepticism on the one hand, celebrating them with a comic sense of wonder...

The villas of the Lucca district of Tuscany, Italy comprise palatial residences, historic villas, gardens and farmhouses - splendid dwellings whose charm is subtle, discreet and reserved. This superb book,...

Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA (b. 1962) depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas,...