From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disasterOn 1 May, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly...

Social Physics will change the way we think about how we learn and how our social groups work - and can be made to work better, at every level of society. it is an entirely new way to look at life itself.Where do ideas come from? How do they get put into...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Pat Campbell, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka,...

Doodle Cat is back and he is very bored. Until he finds a thing! But what is this thing and what does it do?Following on from their debut picture book I Am Doodle Cat, writer Kat Patrick and illustrator Lauren Marriott have created another hilarious tale...

A pithy, street-wise collection of practical tips you need to know to improve your cricket skillsAdvice from the greats! Here in one place is a collection of cricket tips covering batting, bowling, fielding, wicket-keeping, strategy, mindset, tactics,...

With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank exposes how, in the last few decades, the American Left has made an unprecedented shift away from its working-class roots.With his trademark sardonic wit...

Imagine the document you have before you is not a book but a map. It is well-used, creased, and folded, so that when you open it, no matter how carefully, something tears and a line that is neither latitude nor longitude opens in the hidden geography of...

Published for the first time in English, My Pig Paulina is a splendid companion to the classic bestseller My Donkey Benjamin. With compelling, naturalistic photographs that allow children to imagine themselves into the story, it's the perfect addition...

Written with Fallada's distinctive power and vividness, Nightmare in Berlin captures the demoralised and desperate atmosphere of post-war Germany in a way that has never been matched or surpassed.Available for the first time in English, here is an...

He was the reformer who made Victoria a leader in social equality, the arts, and the environment. He and his government built the underground rail loop, decriminalised homosexuality, abolished capital punishment, and outlawed sexual discrimination in the...

A timeless guide to one of the world's greatest cities.Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the...

World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writerWorld-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an...

Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. ...

This major new book from the bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman presents a bold and provocative thesis about the likeliest locations for the coming eruptions.George Friedman forecasted coming global trends in The Next 100...

'They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the fraught and febrile aura that surrounded Ishtar and those in her orbit, that whined and creaked like a wire pulled too tight.''They were inescapable, the tensions of the adult world - the...

Creatures of a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face, each day, to make our own lives meaningful.In his long and distinguished career, Irvin D. Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges- that we all...

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted lawyer's coming of age, a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.A powerful, bold true story about...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The pioneering experts behind the bestselling The Whole-Brain Child tackle the ultimate parenting challenge- discipline. 'A lot of fascinating insights ... an eye-opener worth reading.'-ParentsHighlighting the fascinating...

In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding.In this...

When Kim Barker first arrived in Kabul as a journalist in 2002, she had only recently acquired a passport, spoke only English, and had little idea how to do the 'Taliban Shuffle' between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter - her stories about Islamic...

Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's audacious and gripping debut novel is a marvel of storytelling brio and genuine literary delicacy.Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move...

The 2013 election year as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.The 2013 election year as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Warren Brown,...

In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains- away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us...

This is not just a book for bird-lovers. Chisholm's charming and often humorous prose reveals a man who loves words as well as birds. His style of writing and the historical photographs accompanying his text provide a gentle record of a period that...

On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns collapsed, villages were...

In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades, to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young...

Revealing account of the battle for Pozi res that re-examines the tragic events and questions the Anzac legend that was forged there.In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small...

For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily...

A gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brainA gripping, triumphant memoir about the power of addiction and its effect on the brain Marc Lewis knows addiction- that desperate ambition to get high accompanied him...

'Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.''Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a...

Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years) Parlour Games for Modern...

All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer.All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer. This international bestseller, now revised with the latest research, examines what we can...

We've all seen the happiness in the face of a child while playing in the schoolyard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing with glee across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless and all-consuming. And, most...

In the early 1980s, Paul Keating set out to reinvent the Australian economy. He floated the Australian dollar, liberated banking and finance from its regulatory shackles, and - most significantly - introduced a universal superannuation scheme. The...

In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a broad-ranging investigation into...

The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a sharp decline in respect for human rights and the international rule of law. The legal conventions of the new realpolitik seem to owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva. Australia has tarnished its...

At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five...

Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message- healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other...

Here is a major collection from 'arguably the most important intellectual alive' (the New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse...

This is a magnificent oral record of the experiences of ordinary Australians during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and has been continuously in print since it was published in 1978.This is a magnificent oral record of the experiences of ordinary...

'Combines the conflicting elements of Australia's black and white cultures in a uniquely authentic way ... An appealing and sensitive novel ... he has succeeded masterfully.' - Paul Ormonde (Herald Sun)This is a historical novel, based on the true story...

Arnold Zable has articulated, exquisitely, the haunted consciousness of the next generation. An astonishing achievement, this is a lyrical, transcendent, luminous work.Romance and terror, light and shadow, replicas and originals, hover side by side,...

How I Rescued My Brain is an amazing tale of one man's resilience, and his determination to overcome one of the most frightening situations imaginable - the fear that he had lost his mind and might not get it back.As a forensic psychologist, David Roland...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the world's most lively but treacherous citiesAnnawadi is...

'The best book on marriage and sex yet published.' Psychotherapy in Australia The greatest sexual pleasure and emotional fulfilment in a person's lifetime is possible in the middle and later years when he or she has developed a mature sense of self and...

Written in Irving Yalom's inimitable story-telling style and capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality.In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of...

An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today.Not since Thomas Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the...

Whatever your age, I Am Doodle Cat reminds you of the universe's splendidness, and above all, to remember to love YOU!I Am Doodle Cat is a cheerful children's book here to encourage imagination, celebration of the things you love, and finding the magic...