Books

The Coastwatchers risked everything for victory. This is one of their stories. Will Red, a boxer turned novice sailor aboard two small Allied Intelligence boats during World War II, survive the dangers that lurk behind enemy lines? Tasked with spying and...

Congratulations on your beautiful new baby! Your magical little human who has flipped your world upside down in the best possible way. And now you’re staring at them, full of love, full of questions. How do I play with them? What do we do together all...

What does it truly mean to leave behind everything familiar – your home, your language, your sense of belonging – in search of a new beginning? Migrants Life Volume 1 is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of migration, told through vivid...

Through a chorus of voices from those who loved, loather, and feared him, Squizzy Taylors Storied Life paints a vivid portrait of Melbournes most notorious anti-hero in the early 20th century. Rising from a junior member of Melbournes Bourke Street Rats...

If you’re looking for literary theory, jargon, or safe distance, put this book back on the shelf now. The Heart of Amos Oz: Love, War & Grief brings you close to Amos Oz not as a legend, but as a man. A son marked by his mother’s death. An Israeli writer...

Toes curled over the edge of the high diving board - so high above the blue pool water. Can Tilly take the plunge? Tillys friends are all excited to be jumping off the high diving board at the public pool, but Tilly is scared. She doesnt want to jump,...

Expert guidance and cutting-edge tools for every researcher. Complex, time-consuming, and steeped in methodologies, conducting a literature review can often feel overwhelming. A go-to resource for researchers for nearly 20 years, The Literature Review...

A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe end-times...

The original ADHD Go-To Guide was primarily focused on children. This revised edition is intended for parents, educators, employers, and individuals living with ADHD. It offers current, evidence-based information presented in a straightforward and...

Are you ready to square off with the champion of total-body workouts? Prepared to burn calories, increase power and strength, sculpt muscles and transform your body? Then step into the ring with Total Knockout Fitness. Martin McKenzie, coach and advisor...

Improve your fitness level, achieve your swimming goals, and maximize your workouts with the help of four-time Olympic gold medalist Janet Evans! Whether you have been swimming laps for years, want to get back into the water, or have a competitive streak...

An illustrated book for children of all ages aboutJack, a young kookaburra living with his family amongst other birds and animals in an Australian bushland setting. Jack is learning about life. He has a problem though, he can’t call as a kookaburra is...

Our devastating bushfires of 2019-20, their effects, meanings and implications, have not been forgotten. The Australian bushfire crisis of 2019-2020 was a disaster on an unprecedented scale which dramatically focused attention on the need to review and...

This collection of poems is the work of former refugee and journalist, Abdul Samad Haidari. The poems, grouped in five sections, give expression to the authors experiences of flight from war torn Afghanistan to Iran as a child of the oppressed Hazara...

This book documents the complex, drawn out and harsh legal procedures and historically racist and toxic immigration culture that await people arriving by plane and subsequently seeking refugee status in Australia. This story has hitherto been sidelined...

When viewed from the economic centers of the Indian or Atlantic Oceans, the Ruvuma region of East Africa, crossing what is now Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, would look like a periphery. But the same factors that marginalize the region historically...

In Writing Against Hitler, Daniel Siemens reconstructs the history of the struggles of socialist intellectuals in Germany from the 1920s through the post-World War II era by focusing on the life of one influential member of that group, Hermann...

As the West liberalized its stance on sexuality and gender between 2000 and 2020, Vladimir Putin's Russia moved in the opposite direction, remolding the performance of Russian citizenship according to a neoconservative agenda characterized by...

Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest photographer of children. From 1856 to 1880, Carroll took around...

As Yun Zhou argues, this transformative period cannot be fully understood without considering the evolving role of women and Christianity in Chinese society. At the turn of the twentieth century, American missionary women established Nü duo (The Woman’s...

Leo Strauss famously asserted that the fundamental, defining debate within Western civilization is that between Jerusalem and Athens, piety and philosophy, the Bible and Plato. And yet, surprisingly, Strauss never published any of his thoughts on Plato's...

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and...

First discovered in a Hungarian library in 1838, the Rohonc Codex keeps privileged company with some of the most famous unsolved writing systems in the world, notably the Voynich manuscript, the Phaistos Disk, and Linear A. Written entirely in cipher,...

While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society...

Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of 2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this quintessential French monument are once more at the forefront. This...

Mary Shelley lived and wrote during an age of religious instability, one that witnessed the spread of atheism, millenarianism, Methodism, Unitarianism, and Evangelicalism, among other belief systems. In this book, Jennifer L. Airey foregrounds Shelley as...

Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615 and often considered “the first modern novel,” Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is undoubtedly the most influential work in the Spanish literary canon. In this groundbreaking graphic...

In From Hysteria to Hormones, Amy Koerber examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health. Shortly after Ernest Henry...

A collection of four stories of the supernatural by early twentieth-century medievalist and antiquarian M. R. James, exemplifying how James redefined the ghost story and how his connection to academia, antiquities, and medievalism inspired and informed...

Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth.  Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines...

In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in...

Nikita Khrushchev’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that "we will bury you" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet...

In this masterfully written book, Tomas Halik calls upon Christians to touch the wounds of the world and to rediscover their own faith by loving and healing their neighbors. One of the most important voices in contemporary Catholicism, Tomas Halik argues...

In 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture titled "On the Deities of Samothrace" to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The lecture offered a startlingly original reading of the ancient Greek mystery religion on the island of Samothrace. It would be...

Uncompromising and innovative, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the citys youth. Shayna L. Maskell explores DCs hardcore scene during its short but storied peak. Led by...

Trends have become a commodity—an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even manufacture trends...

In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939...

Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup.  This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples...

The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth brought her international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema...

This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general readers alike. Donald R...

In Yellow Steel, the first overarching history of the earthmoving equipment industry, William Haycraft examines the tremendous increase in the scope of mining and construction projects, from the Suez Canal through the interstate highway system, made...

A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of Aotearoa New Zealand is an introductory photographic guide to 250 bird species in New Zealand, including the most commonly seen, resident and endemic species. Designed for all levels of birder, it is perfect for...

Christmas kindness. Advent countdown. Family fun. Jemma can’t wait for Christmas, especially the presents. But there are lots of sleeps to go… With Mum, Dad, and her brother Luke, she counts down the days with carols, baking, cards, paper decorations and...

A Naturalist’s Guide to the Insects of Aotearoa New Zealand is an easy-to-use, introductory photographic guide to New Zealands insects that is perfect for resident and visitor alike. It includes the familiar faces of Aotearoas most common insect species,...

From one of Australia’s best true crime writers and co-author of the bestselling Underbelly series comes Rule on Crime, a gripping collection of a dozen unforgettable stories of Australian crime and corruption. Curated and updated by Andrew Rule, this...

Caught in the Current is an essential and timely read for the farm sector, policymakers, water authorities and students of environmental and agricultural science. It explores growing concerns around Australia’s declining food security and the real impact...