The definitive guide by history guru Kenn Webb to the 'Augustan Age: 44BC-AD14' Ancient History area of study. Source materials, explnations of the evidence, and commentary on the events and...
Suitable for high school biology students, the Australian Biology Dictionary is an essential companion for wading through the tangle of biological terms and facilitating a more complete understanding of the...
Mr Wolf. Mr Shark. Mr Snake. Mr Piranha. They’re Bad Guys, everybody knows that. They're scary and dangerous and well ... just bad. But these guys want to be heroes....
Mark Hayward has long collected photographs and has built up a comprehensive collection of Beatles images, from early photographs of John as a small schoolboy to the last photograph taken...
In June 1964 the Beatles arrived in Australia for a concert tour. There they encountered writer/photographer John Howard; when the group toured Europe the following year, Howard met up with...
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties,...
'From the small screen to the big screen, the complete guide to America's all-time favourite show' A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the popular television show features interviews with...
In this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history....
Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Edited by Michael Tanner
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music...
'A great, disturbing play.' Guardian'Mr Pinter's terrifying blend of pathos and hatred fuses unforgettably into the stuff of art.' Sunday TimesStanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by two...
Though Imrhien's memory is clouded by sorcery, she must take vital news to the King-Emperor of Caermelor. She hopes that there she may also find Thorn, the fearless ranger who...
As vital fragments of her past come back to her, Tahquil-Ashalind undertakes a journey to seek the Bitterbynde Gate, the only remaining way into the world of the Faeran. Accompanied...
It's not easy being Thomas Mollison. He's turning 16, and his autistic brother Charlie embarrasses him. So do his wacky parents. When his pregnant Mother (Collette) is confined to bed...
S.E. Anderson, illustrated by The Cro-Maat Collective
The Black Holocaust for Beginners answers a series of questions regarding all dimensions of the Black Holocaust - from its widespread and destructive effect on African cultures through to its...
A boy stood in the playground under the big fig tree. 'He can't speak English,' the children whispered.Sydney, 1942. The war is coming to Australia - not only with the...
This lavishly illustrated guide to the blues and blues-makers is the perfect all-purpose guide for vice and enthusiast alike. Illustrated with photographs on nearly every page, this book provides an...
'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.' PETER CRAVEN, Heat 'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace. 'Consider the subjects of his stories: a child...
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we...
After an extensive period of writing for film, Louis Nowra returns to the stage with The Boyce Trilogy, an epic saga about the Boyce family, a family made wealthy through...
A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving literary works The Call of the Wild, London's elemental masterpiece about...
Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set...
The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander illustrates how Alexander the Great came to rule over...