Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series by Carl Reinecke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at th ...Show more
Teach Your Children Tables by Bill Handley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Teach Your Children Tables 3e will enable your children to master the multiplication tables in less than half an hour, and solve problems like 96 x 97 faster than they could tap the numbers into a calculator! By following Handley's innovative approach your children will: * be able to perform lightning-q ...Show more
Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition by Editors of Editors of Webster's New World Coll
$37.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition, presents the best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster's New World name for decades. A clear and accessible defining style, compelling feature notes, full-page tables and charts, hu ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reference
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Lahiri, Jhumpa
$27.99 AUD
Category: Reference
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many cap ...Show more
The Chambers Book of Cryptic Crosswords by Chambers
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Give your brain a workout with 100 puzzles from Chambers, the most crossword-friendly dictionary in the world Put your feet up and escape from it all with The Chambers Book of Cryptic Crosswords featuring a 'ton' of cryptic challenges to give your brain a workout. In each puzzle there are one or two eas ...Show more
Million Word Crossword Dictionary by NEWMAN STANLEY & ST
$45.00 AUD
Category: Reference
With more than 1,000,000 answers, this volume contains more than twice as many answers as any other crossword dictionary. More important, it is the first crossword dictionary ever to comprehensively cover the clues and answers that actually appear in today's most popular crosswords, including contempora ...Show more
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
$55.00 AUD
Category: Reference
London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super-rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more, sociolo ...Show more
This Modern House: Vintage Advice and Practical Science for Happy Home Management by Jennifer Mcknight-Trontz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The time-tested advice you never learned in school for getting back to basics and running a healthy, happy, sustainable household.Back in the day, young people (well, young women) used to learn life skills like budgeting, cleaning, mending, and meal planning in their home economics classes. But nowadays ...Show more
1000 Checkmate Combinations by Victor Henkin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
This truly outstanding book, first published in Russian in the 1970s and regarded as a classic, contains everything you need to know about how to deliver checkmate. 1000 Checkmate Combinations contains a wealth of elegant and sophisticated chess tactics as well as systematic and effective instruction ...Show more
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
$13.99 AUD
Category: Reference
A one-of-a-kind masterclass in chess from the greatest player of all time.Learn how to play chess the Bobby Fischer way with the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable method ever devised. Whether you're just learning the game or looking for more complex strategies, these practice problems and exercise ...Show more
The Little Green Grammar Book (PB) by Mark Tredinnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
What really goes on inside a sentence? What is your subject, where is your verb, what is its tense, where is your modifier, and why does it matter? Where do you need a comma, and where do you not? Why are dashes and semicolons so misunderstood? When is it which and when is it that? In The Little Green G ...Show more