A Prescription for Change
Tony Koch
$34.95

Anzas in Arkhangel
Michael Challinger
$35.00

For the first time, Michael Challinger brings to life a distant theatre of war in the frozen wasteland of far north Russia. In 1918, a small, little-known group of Australian soldiers were seconded to help protect the British from a northern Russian attack. They became embroiled in what was to become the Russian revolution, fighting in conditions that only Ernest Shackleton had experience of. Anzacs in Arkhangel is a fascinating and well-researched account that brings Russian history into focus, and reveals how easily the war could have been lost.

Aristocrats

$65.00

For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Lawrence James illuminates how the aristocracy’s infatuation with classical art has forged our heritage, how its love of sport has shaped our pastimes and values - and how its scandals have entertained the public. Impeccably researched and brilliantly entertaining, Aristocrats is an enthralling history of remarkable supremacy,
power, influence and an extraordinary knack for selflessness, greed and survival.

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
$39.95

Bill Bryson, award-wining author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, was struck by the realisation that we are more devoted to studying the battles and wars of times past than we are to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people going about their daily business. As a result, Bryson goes on a journey around his home, an old rectory in Norfolk, exploring how ordinary things came to be. At Home is an entertaining book examining the history of the way we live.

Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Simon Winchester
$35.00

 In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. At the core of the book is the story of mankinda??s complex relationship with this immense sea, which stretches for 9,000 miles from pole to pole. The Atlantic has profoundly influenced the lives of those who have lived along its shores, from hardscrabble pioneers in windswept locations such as the Aran Islands and Newfoundland, to the inhabitants of the great port cities of Lisbon, Rio, London and New York. ATLANTIC brings to life key episodes in this compelling human drama - the age of exploration and the subsequent colonisation of the Americas; the flourishing of transatlantic commerce and the rise and fall of the slave trade; extraordinary tales of sea-borne emigration during the nineteenth century; and the great naval battles that have left an indelible imprint on Atlantic history. Travelling by small sailing craft, container ship and general cargo vessel, Simon Winchester will journey around the edges and across the vast expanse of the ocean to report from the places that encapsulate its most fascinating stories. It is an enthralling mixture of history, science and reportage from a master of narrative non-fiction, and the definitive account of this magnificent body of water.

Australian Bush Pubs: A Celebration of Outback Australia's Unique Watering Holes

$39.95

Lavishly illustrated with striking full colour photographs, Australian Bush Pubs: a Celebration of Outback Australia’s Unique Watering Holes, features an eclectic collection of the outback’s historic public houses, including such classics as Queenland’s famous Birdsville Hotel and New South Wales’s characterful Tilpa Hotel. Featuring a short history of each establishment along with unusual aspects, such as happenings, famous patrons and even ghosts!

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009

$29.95

Australia’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists are back on the job, pencils sharpened and eager to draw fresh blood. The seventh edition of this best-selling series features the work of editorial cartoonists from all around Australia. Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the essential guide to the new Labor era.

Best of Brisbane: The Full-Colour Guide
Dianne McLay
$24.95

Following the success of Brisbane’s Best Bush, Bay & City Walks, comes Best of Brisbane – a guide to the city’s attractions and activities. Ideal for visitors and residents alike, Best of Brisbane is illustrated with full-colour photography and navigational maps. There are chapters on walks, museums and galleries, parks and gardens, performing arts, festivals, eating and drinking, and much more. Every destination is described in detail to ensure that minimum time is wasted and maximum time is spent enjoying the sights.

Brain Sense

$35.00

Have you ever wondered why you remember colour images and scenes so much better than those in black and white? The answer is in the way our brains interpret and process the sights, smells, tastes, and touches that make up our lives. Brain Sense explores brain function and the senses, and offers new insight about what makes us tick. Based on research by renowned scientists, readers will discover how the brain really works. Brain Sense will help us understand the elusive mysteries of the brain.

Brisbane 150 Stories

$44.95

Cruiser
Mike Carlton
$39.95

Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth. Most were young – many still teenagers – from cities, towns and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they battled the forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, the Vichy French and, finally, the Imperial Japanese Navy. Journalist Mike Carlton tells the story of their campaigns, the atrocities of Japanese captivity, and those who loved and waited for them.

Finding Forgiveness
Eileen Borris-Dunchunstang
$29.95

Finding Forgiveness is an inspiring guide to healing the wounds left by loss and betrayal. Eileen Borris-Dunchunstang is an internationally acclaimed expert on conflict resolution and trauma recovery, and has worked closely with the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra. In Finding Forgiveness she offers simple, proven strategies to release you from negative thinking and unnecessary suffering. Filled with inspiring true stories of people who have found strength in forgiveness, this is your personal road map for a journey of self-discovery, understanding, and acceptance.

Great Australian Speeches
Ed. Pamela Robson
$24.95

Great Australian Speeches brings together a diverse and often moving collection of over 50 speeches ranging from colonial times to the present day. Some have resonated with a power enough to shape the nation; others encapsulate the best - and worst of the Australian character. This selection proves that stirring oratory is not simply the preserve of politicians and military figures.

Great Moments in Australian History

$39.99

Great Moments in Australian History presents an exciting collection of stories about the most colourful highlights and heroes of Australia’s history. From the early Dutch explorers to the gold rushes, Federation to the wars of the last century and the Victorian bushfires of recent times, this magnificently illustrated volume details sixty-five of the most defining events in Australia’s history. Pioneering a fresh approach, award-winning author Jonathan King dramatises events to bring each moment vividly to life.

Here on Earth: A Sustainable Future
Tim Flannery
$34.95

In Here on Earth, Tim Flannery conducts and extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. His points of departure are drawn from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock an Dawkins. He argues that our success as species has had disastrous effects on many of the earth’s ecosystems and this could lead to our downfall. Equally, however, Flannery argues that we are now equipped like never before to explore our true relationship with the planet. Here on Earth is a dazzling account of life on our planet and it will change the way you live.

How Risky is it, Really?
David Ropeik
$37.00

More people die of the common flu than they would if they contracted the swine flu. But more people fear swine flu because they think it’s more dangerous. In How Risky Is It, Really? International risk expert David Ropeik takes an in-depth look at our perceptions of risk and explains the hidden factors that make us unnecessarily afraid of relatively small threats, and not afraid enough of some really big ones. He provides tools to better evaluate real risks, therefore enabling you to make better choices.

How to Never Look Fat Again
Charla Krupp
$40.00

How to Never Look Fat Againis the new style guide from Charla Krupp that discusses everything about women’s clothes – from shape and fit to fabric and colour. Krupp shares smart, easy ways to hide arm flaps, big busts, muffins tops, back fat, Buddha belly, booty, wide hips, thunder thighs, heavy calves, and much more! If you’re a woman who puts something on and asks, “Does this make me look fat?”, this book is for you.

I See Rude People

$29.95

In I See Rude People, Amy Alkon goes to extreme lengths to force ill-behaved people to improve their manners, and inspires you to do the same. Instead of stewing in anger, Alkon shows you by example, how to confront rude people head-on about their impolite ways. With play-by-play accounts of her inspiring and humorous confrontations, Alkon outlines the reasons for this misbehaviour, providing solid arguments for convincing abusers to change their ways, and exhorts all of us to become better members of society.

Kokoda Spirit

$49.95

The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia’s Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 Kokoda was a killing field. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedom. In Kokoda Spirit, Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track as it is today and how it was in 1942. With his unique storytelling skills he reconnects us with the past while taking us on the grueling journey that is Kokoda.

Local Hollywood
Ben Goldsmith, Susan Ward and Tom O’Regan
$34.95

Local Hollywood goes behind the scenes of the global competition to host mobile film and television production and Australia’s first local Hollywood – the Gold Coast. This extensively researched book explores the contemporary dispersal of Hollywood production and how a unique situation in Queensland provided an attractive alternative home for them. Examining everything from location and story setting to financial investment, Local Hollywood uncovers the range and depth of international productions made in Queensland and provides fascinating insight into how south-east Queensland became part of the ‘global Hollywood’ phenomenon.

Marching with the Devil
David Mason
$0.00

‘Legionnaires, you were made for dying, I will send you where you can die’. These words were spoken by a French Foreign Legion General in 1894 and David Mason read them as both a challenge and an invitation. He enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1988 and Marching with the Devil is a frank account of his life as a Legionnaire in training and in Africa where he took part in two operations in the Republic of Djibouti. He reveals how, disappointingly, the Legion today is not what it seems.

Oprah
Kitty Kelley
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Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated and newly informed by the closely observed, detailed, and well-rounded portrait of her provided by Kitty Kelley's exhaustively researched book. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation of who Oprah really is beyond her public persona and a fuller understanding of her important place in American cultural history.

Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
$35.00

 In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future. At the core of the book is the story of mankinda??s complex relationship with this immense sea, which stretches for 9,000 miles from pole to pole. The Atlantic has profoundly influenced the lives of those who have lived along its shores, from hardscrabble pioneers in windswept locations such as the Aran Islands and Newfoundland, to the inhabitants of the great port cities of Lisbon, Rio, London and New York. ATLANTIC brings to life key episodes in this compelling human drama - the age of exploration and the subsequent colonisation of the Americas; the flourishing of transatlantic commerce and the rise and fall of the slave trade; extraordinary tales of sea-borne emigration during the nineteenth century; and the great naval battles that have left an indelible imprint on Atlantic history. Travelling by small sailing craft, container ship and general cargo vessel, Simon Winchester will journey around the edges and across the vast expanse of the ocean to report from the places that encapsulate its most fascinating stories. It is an enthralling mixture of history, science and reportage from a master of narrative non-fiction, and the definitive account of this magnificent body of water.

Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War
Mark Danner.
$39.95

Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels.  As a newly installed Haitian president told Mark Danner in riot-torn Port-au-Prince, 'Violence strips bare a society's body, the better to place the stethoscope and track the life beneath the skin.'  This stark truth came to haunt Danner, especially after the president was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat.

Stripping Bare the Body moves from mass murder on election day in Port-au-Prince, to massacre by mortar bomb on the streets of Sarajevo, to suicide bombings in the suburbs of Baghdad, to torture in the secret 'black site' prisons of Thailand and Afghanistan, to political deal-making, personal rivalries and bureaucratic in-fighting in Washington and New York and Langley.  Here is the vivid, unforgettable history of what Mark Danner calls a 'grim age, still infused with the remnant perfume of imperial dreams.'

SuperFreakOnomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes & Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
$32.95

From authors of ‘the international bestselling phenomenon’, comes the long awaited sequel ‘SuperFreakOnomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes & Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance’.

Levitt and Dubner will transform the way you look at the world by uncovering the hidden side of the most controversial subjects.

The Men who Killed Qantas

$34.95

This book is the Qantas story that every airline passenger needs to read: the full and frank history of Australia’s national airline. It takes you into the boardroom, where golden parachutes are signed off, and onto the hangar floor, where engineers battleaccounting cuts to keep planes flying safely. It takes you back to the foundation of the airline to disprove the line that Qantas never crashes. This is the warts and all history the Qantas PR department does not want you to read.

The Power of Influence: The Easy Way to Make Money Online
Sarah Prout
$29.95

The Power of Influence is a step by step guide to wielding social media and networking tools to perfect the art of engaging potential clients and gaining their trust – and their dollars. It’ll fast-track anyone to business success via networking on ubiquitous online platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Sarah Prout reveals the nuts and bolts of creating and growing a successful online business, including website creation and blogging. She also includes inspiring profiles of successful online entrepreneurs that prove, regardless of your background and online experience, there is potential at your fingertips.

The Right Decision

$39.95

When it comes to making the right decision, don’t leave it up to chance. Professor and mathematician James Stein demystifies Decision Theory and shows you how you can apply the principles of this exciting new field of mathematics to help you make the right decisions in all areas of your life. The Right Decision is an easy-to-follow guide for business leaders, politicians, and legal experts to make complicated ideas seem simple, revolutionizing the way you think and make choices.

The Woman who Fell from the Sky
Jennifer Steil
$35.00

Western women are treated as a third sex in Yemen. This explains why my male staff often treat me with deference. To them, I am not a woman: I am a giraffe. Something alien and unclassifiable. But were a Yemeni woman to take over the paper, the same men would quit in protest ...

At a time of escalating tensions between the Middle East and the West, its difficult to imagine a thirty-something single woman from Manhattan running The Yemen Observer in Sanaa, one of the oldest and most conservative cities in the world.

But Jennifer Steil is no ordinary woman. When she is offered a job training young journalists in Yemen, she seizes the opportunity for a new adventure, despite the fact that she doesnt speak Arabic, loathes hot weather and has never taught a class in her life. In turn, her students think nothing of plagiarising articles from the Internet and cant distinguish opinion from news, but they are desperate for training and eager to learn.

Never before in her career had she felt so useful. It was not until she took over as editor-in-chief for a year that the real challenges of living in a conservative Muslim country as a Westerner and a woman hit home. But along the way she makes friends for life with people whose culture could not be more different to her own and learns far more than she could ever teach. And proves that you often find love in the most unexpected places ...

True Spirit
Jessica Watson
$35.00

There is something different about adventurers; about the way their minds work. They look at the world as a place of challenges and though they know what fear is, they refuse to be hindered by it.TRUE SPIRIT is Jessica's story and in it she will detail her preparation, her journey and her battle with sleep deprivation, gale-force winds, mountainous seas, natural hazards like whales and icebergs and holding firm against the solitude that most of us can only imagine dealing with alone on a vast sea with no land to be seen and no help close at hand.The name Jessica Watson will soon be part of sailing history. She will join Jesse Martin and Kay Cottee as someone all Australians can be inspired by. Jessica Watson is a dreamer who dares to do.

Venice

$69.95

In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and trading empire today. There are wars and sieges, scandals and seductions, fountains playing in deserted squares and crowds thronging the markets, as well as dark undertones and shadowy corners. Ackroyd’s Venice is a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city and one of the world’s most beautiful.

Where Did My Libido Go?
Rosie King
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In Where Did My Libido Go? Rosie King gives you advice on how to get your sex life back on track. Every woman will experience low sexual desire at some point in her life – either in the short or long term. Where Did My Libido Go? will teach you how your sexual desire works, how to maximise you libido and increase sexual enjoyment, and strategies that will help you enjoy a regular, satisfying sex life with your partner.

Whom Not to Marry
Father Pat Connor
$29.99

After yet another celebrity divorce preoccupying the American media, Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column to an unusual expert and his tips on how to spot your ideal husband: 79-year-old Catholic priest and marriage counsellor, Father Pat Connor, who has spent 40 years counselling and lecturing (high school seniors, mostly girls) on 'Whom Not to Marry'. Father Pat s distilled advice was the most downloaded article from the NYT that week and his wisdom quickly went viral and global. Father Pat then charmed America with his appearance on America s Today Show.WHOM NOT TO MARRY, based on his popular lecture, is a welcome and wise collection of time-tested advice on how to avoid marrying Mr Wrong. Some of Father Pat s advice includes: Never marry a man who has no friends. Steer clear of someone whose life you can run, who never makes demands counter to yours. It s good to have a doormat in the home, but not if it s your husband. Is he overly attached to his mother and her mythical apron strings? Does he have a sense of humour? Take a good, unsentimental look at his family - you ll learn a lot about him and his attitude towards women. Ultimately, does he possess those character traits that add up to a good human being - the willingness to forgive, to praise, to be courteous? Or is he inclined to be a fibber, to fits of rage, to be a control freak, to be envious of you, to be secretive?