100 Greatest Trips 2010

$39.95

100 Greatest Trips 2010 is a dazzling collection of journeys that will help you discover yourself and the world. Inside you’ll find culinary tours, shopping expeditions, scenic drives, beach escapes, art and culture, and outdoor adventures. You’ll also find useful travel tips; mini guides to each destination, with maps and recommendations for hotels, restaurants, boutiques, galleries, museums, and tour operators; and more. From the editors of Travel + Leisure magazine this is the essential resource for millions of travellers around the globe.

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A Year in My Garden

$65.00

Nestled in the rolling hills of the Southern Highlands of NSW is Whitley, a gardeners paradise. Surrounded by beautifully manicured hedges, this property boasts majestic oak trees, roses, maples, pretty cottage flower beds and romantic Italian hillside plantings. Whitley is also home for gardener Jenny Ferguson. In A Year in My Garden, Ferguson welcomes us into her private world and shares the glory of the passing seasons. Lavishly illustrated and featuring seasonal recipes, A Year in My Garden is the perfect escape for people with busy lives.

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Awaken Your Strongest Self
Neil Fiore
$26.95

We often make our worst decisions when we act from a weak sense of self, and our best decision when we are confident and self-assured. Using the latest research findings in neuropsychology, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Peak Performance strategies, Awaken Your Strongest Self shows readers how to live with greater joy, ease, and effectiveness. Through innovative examples, case studies, and exercises, readers will learn how to cope with stress and, ultimately, choose healthy alternatives to replace former bad habits.

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Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me
Paula Begoun
$36.95

Bestselling beauty author and consumer advocate Paula Begoun returns with her most comprehensive book yet. The eighth edition of Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me includes thousands of new product reviews, updated ingredient research, and an extensive compilation of myth-busting skin care facts. Respected for being an unbiased source of skin care and makeup analysis and advice, Begoun is the ‘go to’ authority on the benefits and/or failings of beauty products you are currently using, or thinking of using.

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Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
$24.95

 It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

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Etcetera

$59.95

Etcetera is a lavishly photographed interiors book which demonstrates a clear and easily replicable principle that will help transform a room without the need for expensive and permanent renovation. Author Sibella Court’s style is very global, combining contemporary elements with antiques and junk-shop finds, textile fragments, wallpapers, collectables and ephemera. Etcetera draws on five of Court’s favourite colour themes as a framework for the display of her impeccable eye for detail, resulting in inspirational and intimate room settings.

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Forever Flawless
Napoleon Perdis
$39.99

 

For the first time ever, here is the beauty gospel of makeup maestro Napoleon Perdis. This ultimate make-up guide is filled with tricks of the trade, giving all the cosmetic know-how you can expect from Australia’s leading make-up artist. Forever Flawless has step-by-step instructions on essential beauty basics: from tools to skin care, from the vagaries of mascara application to nail care, and choosing the right red lipstick. With different tips for every decade, you can be flawless no matter what your age.

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French Essence: Ambience, Beauty & Style in Provence
Vicki Archer
$39.95

French Essence is a celebration of life in Provence – one of the most charming regions of France. Vicki Archer offers inspiration to all of us who want to understand the beauty and experience the lifestyle of this exquisite part of the world. Ten years ago, Archer bought and restored a seventeenth-century property in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, and told the story in her book My French Life. Now, in collaboration again with celebrated photographer Carla Coulson, she shares with us her love for a beautiful region which is Provence.

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Getting to Ex
Dominique Grubisa
$24.95

Own your case! Lawyers are there to run a divorce case but handing the lot to them to sort out is unhelpful and costly and, in various ways, not in either party's best interests. This practical, clear, and up-to-date book describes each step of the divorce process, with all the jargon and terms explained. Author Dominique Grubisa, a practicing family law barrister, suggests, in an even-handed manner, the contribution the divorcees themselves can make, how they can take the application part-way themselves, and explains the lawyers' role and when to use them - when they can be at their most effective. There is much advice and wisdom on defining and gaining settlement outcomes, how to deal with children, how to avoid blow-out costs, plus coping with the roller-coaster of emotion along the way. Also includes samples of legal precedent documents. The advice is balanced to both women and men, and applies Australia-wide.

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Grow Fruit
Alan Buckingham
$49.95

Few things taste more delicious than fruit picked straight from the tree and eaten when perfectly ripe. This book shows just how easy it is to grow your own fruit. You don’t need a huge garden or orchard. A perfectly good harvest can come from plants grown in containers or the smallest of gardens. Alan Buckingham will help you pick the right varieties for your conditions, guide your planning and preparation, and provide instructions for planting and growing so that you can be harvesting and eating your own fruit in no time.

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Love's Alchemy
Sky Shayne Innes
$29.95

According to ancient wisdoms, there is nothing more powerful than love. For, love is a consciousness of unity. Aligned with a directive so full of wisdom,

we create differently and live more fully.

 

In a universe of infinite potential, this awareness opens us to possibilities beyond anything we can currently conceive – This is the foundation of ‘Love’s Alchemy’,

a compelling new allegory that awakens our awareness to

the transformative power of love.

Sky’s incisive insight combined with an engaging presence; add power and magnetism to her message. Her focus is on the transformative power of love.

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Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul
Charles Timoney
$22.95

Charles Timoney reveals the mindset and the bizarre language of the French in his book ‘Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul’.

The book incorporates all areas of life in France; from eating and drinking to travel, work, and how to say ‘Oh la la’.

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Really Wild Tea Cosies
Loani Prior
$29.95

From Loani Prior, author of the hugely successful Wild Tea Cosies, comes this entertaining, inspiring and easy-to-follow book featuring 20 even wilder knitted tea cosies. Loani turns this functional, homely item into a fabulously creative knitted sculpture full of vibrant colour and humour, something that will bring joy as well as warmth to your daily cup of tea. These tea cosies are easy enough for knitters of even the most basic skill level to make and assemble. Really Wild Tea Cosies also provides instructions on how to make ten knitted and crocheted decorations, such as flowers, leaves and fruit, which can be used to embellish your tea cosy, or worn on a lapel or scarf.

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Stephanie Alexanders Kitchen Garden Companion

$125.00

If you have ever dreamed of picking fresh salad leaves for the evening meal, gathering vineripened tomatoes or pulling up your own sweet carrots, this is the book for you. Follow in the footsteps of one of Australia’s best-loved cooks Stephanie Alexander, as she reveals the secrets of rewarding kitchen gardening. Whether you have a large plot in a suburban backyard or a few pots on a balcony, you will find everything you need to get started in this inspiring and
eminently useful garden-to-table guide.

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Taschen's London:Hotels, Restaurants & Shops

$85.00

These three individual volumes of Taschen’s London, Paris and New York Hotels, Restaurants and Shops combine Angelika Taschen’s recommendations for hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars in one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their city of choice sojourn will never have a dull moment. Taschen provides an all-access pass to parts of these famous cities that even most locals don’t know about. Dictionary-style cutout tabs make it easy to flip through, and a pocket-sized maps lists all the shops, hotels, and restaurants.

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Taschen's New York:Hotels, Restaurants & Shops

$85.00

These three individual volumes of Taschen’s London, Paris and New York Hotels, Restaurants and Shops combine Angelika Taschen’s recommendations for hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars in one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their city of choice sojourn will never have a dull moment. Taschen provides an all-access pass to parts of these famous cities that even most  locals don’t know about. Dictionary-style cutout tabs make it easy to flip through, and a pocket-sized maps lists all the shops, hotels, and restaurants.

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Taschen's Paris:Hotels,Restaurants&Shops

$85.00

These three individual volumes of Taschen’s London, Paris and New York Hotels, Restaurants and Shops combine Angelika Taschen’s recommendations for hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars in one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their city of choice sojourn will never have a dull moment. Taschen provides an all-access pass to parts of these famous cities that even most locals don’t know about. Dictionary-style cutout tabs make it easy to flip through, and a pocket-sized maps lists all the shops, hotels, and restaurants.

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The Gardener’s Book of Days
Holly Kerr Forsyth
$45.00

Holly Kerr Forsyth has travelled the world and its gardens and in The Gardener’s Book of Days she offers some of the advice and information she has garnered along the way. She discusses Australian gardens and gardening festivals, as well as others found further a-field. There is seasonal advice for vegetable and flower growers, recipes using garden produce and many other garden- and plant-related titbits. Organised into daily readings for the whole year and illustrated throughout with Holly’s beautiful photographs, this book is a perfect companion to the gardening year.

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The Greatest Puzzles Ever Solved
Tim Dedopulos
$39.95

A stunning collection of the finest puzzles ever seen!

Puzzles from Ancient Egypt, to Emperial China, and to modern mindbenders from Britian, America and Japan (to just list a few).

And from the world's oldest puzzle, to the world's most popular puzzle, to the world's toughest puzzle...

This book has it all!

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Turning Points
Diego De Leo
$29.95

In this remarkable book, Professor Diego De Leo, distinguished Italian psychiatrist and tireless researcher into suicide prevention, takes us on a journey to the edge of reason and through into the light of salvation. We hear the voices of desperate traumatised people pushed to the limit of suicide who, via a stroke of fate, had their lives spared. We also hear from others left behind after suicide. Their personal stories told in the form of letters to Diego reveal much about the human spirit its lows and highs, its ability to find a way back from the darkest of places where everything seems lost.

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What Shall I Wear Today? Style Secrets of a Furry Fashionista
Fifi Lapin
$29.99

This is a style book like no other. Inside are the answers to one of life’s big questions – what shall I wear today? Whether you want to perfect everyday chic, look casual without looking crumpled, or go for hold-the-front-page glamour, Fifi Lapin – the world’s most stylish bunny – can help. Of course, what looks great on Fifi won’t necessarily work for you. Not everyone has long ears, a flat chest and a generously padded tushe. But by following her golden rules of style you too can feel fabulous from Monday to Sunday

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