Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Higher, Richer, Sleazier
How drugs and money are changing sport forever
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
An overview of the evolution of Australian sport during the 20th Century, Higher Richer Sleazier is a lament for the innocence and good sportsmanship of a former time. In today's Winning-Is-Everything world what has sport - and we as viewers and society as a whole - lost as a result?
In the...
What Made You Think of That?
Thinking Differently in Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Have you ever wondered why some people consistently seem to have original and different ways of approaching problems, ideas or opportunities? Are you intrigued as to why some individuals see opportunities where others can't or why some companies lead, whilst others follow? This book is both an explanation...
by Andrew Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
From the author of the bestselling 101 Ways to Market Your Business comes a book full of advice to help you guide your business on the road to success.
INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL BY READING THIS BOOK
Running a business is difficult and demanding at the best of times. The trick...
by Tim Harcourt
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Did you know that Australia is helping Singapore 'be creative' to address its imbalance of ballet dancers to engineers and that there is a Transylvanian Cricket Club full of Aussies in Romania? Or that Israeli youngsters are crazy for Tim Tams and the French are buying Billabong board shorts in Bordeaux...
by Paul Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
The Unmaking of Gough is the story of the most dramatic and extraordinary eighteen months in Australian political history. Paul Kelly draws upon his personal conversations with the main players at the time to tell this compelling story. Kelly deals with the loans affair, the Cairns sacking, Malcolm...
From Postbox to Powerhouse
A centenary history of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Now a century old, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is at the heart of government in Australia. From Postbox to Powerhouse tracks its history, from its very humble beginnings as a department that did little more than circulate papers between other government departments.
Since the...
by Tom Frame
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
When Harold Holt disappeared while swimming off Victoria's Cheviot Beach just before Christmas 1967, Australia was given one of its great and enduring mysteries. The death of Australia's seventeenth prime minister has remained part of popular imagination ever since.
Harold Holt's death had...
A Man Is Not a Financial Plan
Investing for wealth and independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
How do you see your future? Will you be working hard until you're seventy? Or retiring early - wealthy, independent and financially free? The difference between these scenarios is simple: investing.
In this life-changing book, Joan Baker demystifies the jargon and shows how you can make investment...
Our Boys
Raising strong, happy sons from boyhood to manhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
THE GO-TO MANUAL FOR RAISING BOYS
Accessible, helpful advice for parents bringing up boys of any age.
Our Boys is a positive, practical, down-to-earth guide that outlines what makes boys tick, describes their development from babyhood to childhood to manhood, and is full of great ideas...
Pocket Money to Property
How to create financially independent kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
These and many other pressing questions are answered by Hannah McQueen with her very clear,direct, practicaladvice on how to create financially independent children.
This is essential reading, whatever your financial status or however old your children are. It asks the hard questions and forces...
Dot.Bomb Australia
How we wrangled, conned and argie-bargied our way into the new digital universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Google became a verb, countries waged war games in the new digital universe and WikiLeaks sent shockwaves through a superpower. We got to this point from a place that was called the dot.com bubble.
Few booms in Australia have been faster or more furious than this bubble. The brightest and best...
Clean Industrial Revolution
Growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
'A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut Climate Change Review
'Humanity's greatest challenge is to minimise the consequences of climate change. With challenge comes opportunity....
Call Me Sasha
Secret confessions of an Australian callgirl
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
At just fifteen years old, Geena had no choice but to leave home. Without an education or any real options, she found herself being lured into the sex industry by the promise of big money and the validation of strangers. She turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of day-to-day life as a callgirl...
by Ursula Dubosarsky, Terry Denton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Coco is the well-respected, if somewhat easily startled Chief of Police in Buenos Aires. Alberta is his more sensible cousin. Together they crack the cases that confound this puzzling city.
Alberta is helping her cousin Coco, the Chief of Police, solve a top-secret case. In the beautiful Japanese...