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by Chris Clark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
'Deserves a place with the other standard encyclopaedias Australians keep on their shelves. It will be a valued travelling companion for visitors to the battlefields of Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific.' - Professor Robert O'Neill, Oxford University
'I keep this book within easy reach.'...
by John Germov
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Not sure how to begin writing? Four assignments and only four weeks to go before the deadline? Then this book is for you.
Find out the rules of the essay-writing game: how to muckrake for information, write drafts, handle references, and do analysis. Discover where you win and lose marks. Learn...
by Scott Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A Christchurch publican shot in a crowded pub, an Indian fruiterer beaten to death in Hawera and a trail of destruction left across Waikato and the Bay of Plenty by a multiple murderer - these are just some of the fascinating unsolved murders profiled in Shot in the Dark.
While the ten cases...
Murderer No More
Andrew Mallard and the epic fight that proved his innocence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
'Even great courts and independent judges can sometimes get things wrong. Reading this book, we should resolve to strengthen our defences against miscarriages of justice.'
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, past Justice of the High Court of Australia
In 1994 Pamela Lawrence was brutally bashed...
Slow Journeys
The pleasures of travelling by foot
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
A slow ramble through the French countryside perhaps, or a tramp along New Zealand's Milford Track, or maybe an indulgent luxury walk in Tasmania? Gillian Souter helps you plan and prepare to make those dreams a reality.
While focusing on a comfortable approach to walking - on-path rather than...
What to Do When Your Child Gets Sick
The essential emergency manual for parents and carers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Have you ever felt helpless when your child - or a child in your care - became unwell and you weren't sure what was wrong? Have you ever been faced with an emergency situation involving a child and not had the first idea what to do? Would you know what to do if your child stopped breathing and their...
by Mick Malthouse and David Buttifant
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The two men responsible for Collngwood's recent success dig to the core of what success - in sport and life in general - is all about in an inspirational book that transcends Australian Football. The Ox is Slow but the Earth is Patient is not just another sport book - it will change your life. Mick...
Surf's Up
The girl's guide to surfing 2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
an inspiring book, not only for young girls but for any woman with an itch to hang ten' Australian Book Review
An absolute bible for beginners the next best thing to a private coach' Realsurf.com
All over the world, girls are grabbing their boards and hitting the surf. No longer content...
The Thing About Prague ...
How I gave it all up for a new life in Europe's most eccentric city
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
'I'd like to say that my decision to move to Prague permanently was based on something grand and noble - a desire to trace my roots, a sense of adventure, my literary heart yearning to burst into flower in the sweet soil of Old Europe - but I can't. The truth is that I had nothing better to do.'
When...
by David Lewis, Mimi George
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
On 14 November 1982, David Lewis, Mimi George and four others set sail from Sydney, Australia, in a 65-foot steel-hulled yacht, the Dick Smith Explorer, on a privately funded expedition to the southern polar ice-cap. Their mission: to overwinter in the frozen Antarctic wastes, study environmental...
Soffritto
A return to Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Every Italian cook has a soffritto - the 'starter kit' of olive oil, garlic and herbs from which a great dish is built. Lucio Galletto was in search of the soffritto of his life.
He'd grown up between the tables of a restaurant built by his family on a beach in north west Italy. He had moved...
King of the Outback
Tales from an off-road adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A modern-day explorer who took everyday Australians along for the ride.
Bill King is the pioneer who put the Australian outback on the map for both local and international tourists. Through an enterprise founded on hope and grit-now operating as AAT Kings-he opened up a completely new branch...
by Tim Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
'We were completely unprepared for the magnificence of the gallery suddenly revealed. A shiver ran up my spine as I saw for the first time the great white Wandjina spirit figures, two and three times larger than human scale.' So begins Tim Bowden's fascination with rarely seen Aboriginal rock art,...
Anoraks To Zitting Cisticola
A whole lot of stuff about birdwatching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Everything you wanted to know about bird watching but didn't know who to ask (in a convenient A-Z format). Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola is a guide to the secret world of birdwatching. It has all the stuff the real guides don't tell you: how to look cool in binoculars, how not to get stuck with a bird...