Whatever It Takes by Peter Deakin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Biographies of great leaders and artists of history. Specifically investigates the questionable methods rulers used in their quest to gain and maintain power, and the personal suffering that fueled creators of art.
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
The Mapmakers' World: A Cultural History of the European World Map by Marjo Nurminen
$125.00 AUD
Category: Reference
The Mapmakers' World illuminates the fascinating cultural history of European world maps: what do historical world maps tell of us, of our perception of the world, and of places and peoples that are foreign to us? Who were the makers of these early world maps? How were the maps created and for whom were ...Show more
Book Love: A Celebration of Writers, Readers & the Printed and Bound Book by James Charlton
$18.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: General Adult
Contributors include Eudora Welty, Patti Smith, Henry Miller, John Updike, Cicero, Groucho Marx, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, E.L. Doctorow, Woody Allen, C.S. Lewis, Saul Bellow, Dorothy Parker, and hundreds more.
How to Blitz Grade 1 Theory - Hal by COATES SAMANTHA
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The unique feature of the 'How to Blitz' series is the conversational and informal style of the worksheets. Students are put at ease and find working through the texts an enjoyable experience. The workbooks are set out in a fun and easy-to-use format. Each concept is covered by step-by-step worksheets w ...Show more
Macquarie Concise Thesaurus by Macquarie Library
$49.95 AUD
Category: Reference
The Macquarie Concise Thesaurus is in the form of an A-Z dictionary of synonyms. It has been produced directly from the respected Macquarie Thesaurus.Featuring:- Over 200,000 synonyms, from the colourfully colloquial to the scientifically specific- Wide range of contemporary words- Australian English, i ...Show more
Writing from Start to Finish: A Six-step Guide by Kate Grenville
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out? If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method - the "Six Steps" approach to writing. Whether you're writing a short story, essay, review or report, ...Show more
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reference
'A master of persuasion.' Forbes 'This book blew my mind.' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the ...Show more
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in by Roger Fisher, William Ury
$19.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The world's bestselling guide to negotiation. There's a reason Getting to Yes has been the world's most in-demand negotiator's handbook for three decades. In that time, it has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Its clear-eyed, simple principles l ...Show more
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) (HB) by Viktor E Frankl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
My Grammar and I (Or Should That be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English by J. A. Wines
$22.95 AUD
Category: Reference
For anyone who has ever had a problem with dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are, "My Grammar and I" provides all the answers. Taking you on a tour of the English language, through a veritable minefield of rules and conditions for the grammati ...Show more
I Before E (Except After C) by Judy Parkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Reference
'My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines' reminds us of the order of the planets in the Solar System. This is a compilation of memory aids guaranteed to simplify masses of confusing facts on numerous subjects, including rhymes, acronyms, rules, phrases and diagrams. It offers an eclectic mi ...Show more