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The Art of Effortless Living
Most of us believe that in order to achieve anything worthwhile, whether in our careers, family life, health or even on the sports field, we have to work hard and apply a lot of effort. In fact, just the opposite is true. In this book, Dr. Ingrid Bacci offers evidence that the most productive, creative ...
Barney's Version: A Novel
Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cherished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a pen-chant for violence and probably a ...
Slinky Malinki Catflaps
Slinky Malinki is asleep in front of the fire but moonlight and the catflap beckon and he goes outside to call up his friends. www.hairymaclary.com...
The First Voyage
An adventure story set in our very distant past, 30,000 years ago, when the first tribes from Timor braved the ocean on primitive rafts to travel into the unknown, and reached the land mass of what is now Australia....
Where I Was from
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Co...
Get A Grip: How to Get Everything You Want from Your Entrepreneurial Business
It's time to take your business to the next level. Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and a...
Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant...
The Book of Tea : Little Black Classic
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...
Vulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
A true story of dark forces that ended a colourful life. The basis for American Crime Story- The Assassination of Gianni Versace, the second series of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning 10-part drama series on BBC2, starring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin. This is the unforgettable account of a sociopath...
Pocket Eyewitness Dinosaurs: Facts at Your Fingertips
Discover the world of dinosaurs in this essential pocket guide to the prehistoric world. Learn about more than 150 prehistoric animals, including the sea-dwelling Plesiosaurus, the flying Pterodactylus, and the fierce Allosaurus. Creature profiles fill you in on those fascinating details needed to impre...
Goodnight, Glow Worms: from the author of Meerkat Christmas and Meerkat Splash
Goodnight, Glow Worms shining bright, Time to dim your Glow Worm light Glow Worms gleaming, beaming round, Can’t switch off and can’t wind down. Will those Glow Worms ever get to sleep? ...
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of the most important contemporary questions that divides the world of art and culture- the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from subju...
Small Town Monsters
The Conjuring meets The Vow! This terrifying paperback original tells the unputdownable story of a girl, a dark angel, and the cult hellbent on taking over her small, coastal town. Vera Martinez wants nothing more than to escape Roaring Creek and her parents' reputation as demonologists. Not to mentio...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi...
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