Books

‘I’ve decided to write this book, as painful as it is for me, because I know there are others, like me, who have faced the unimaginable, and wondered how to begin living their lives again… When I hear of any cancer story now, I don’t think of anatomy. I...

Just Like Me is a lovely story about friendship and celebrating the similarities that connect us.

Iris doesn’t look like anyone in her family. She really wants to blend in with the rest of the herd. But for a bright purple alpaca, it’s not that easy. Will Iris discover the ultimate disguise for blending in? Or will she discover that some things are...

Heart of Gold relates to Alexandra Worth on a personal level as it recounts the events that occurred during her journey of open heart surgery, who is represented by the main character Anna. Anna is a young girl enjoying life and trying to make the most...

Slow is a story about Nessy, a young girl from the city who wants to look after her treasured planet. Nessy visits her Pop who lives on the edge of a mountain and grows potatoes. She discovers that treading more slowly reduces her impact on the...

Many parents feel they must wait until their child is mobile or able to speak before any real relationship can begin. We know for example that the foetus is prepared for the extra-uterine environment form the beginning of the 3rd trimester. Parents need...

Most information workers are expelling incredible amounts of energy to deliver their day-to-day work. Staff are working furiously sharing information over email, Excel and a share drive that are very old technologies. Technology is developing faster and...

Without clear direction, a productive working environment and an effective strategy implementation process, integrated with all aspects of the working organization, an organization’s strategy may not be delivered and the causes of failure will not be...

When Bonaparte sets out to investigate two bizarre murders near the dusty little outback town of Carie, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent cold, and any clues that may have survived have been confused by a...

Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House...

Many talented professionals work hard, deliver great results and quietly support their teams, yet they often feel overlooked in the workplace. They know they have more to contribute, but self-doubt, fear of appearing arrogant, or difficulty speaking up...

Many business owners start their companies with excitement and ambition, only to find themselves trapped inside the very business they created. Instead of freedom and opportunity, they experience stress, constant firefighting and the feeling that growth...

Reputation is one of the most powerful assets a business can possess. It shapes opportunities, influences revenue, and determines how customers, employees and the market perceive your organisation. Yet despite its importance, reputation is often...

Many business owners start their companies with passion and excitement, only to find themselves overwhelmed by operational challenges, declining motivation and inconsistent results. The dream business they once envisioned slowly becomes a source of...

Are you swamped in the day to day running of your business and feel like you are suffocating with no time for the things that are truly important to you? International Author, Speaker, Business Owner and Transport Driver, Lynette Gray, shares the secrets...

Transform your property; capture, store, and reuse rainwater with eco-friendly drainage solutions. Say goodbye to water issues! Discover the secret—read this book today! The unique underground eco-friendly water collection and storage system includes...

Discover the essential business strategies that high-performing companies use to thrive in competitive industries. In this practical and insightful guide, international author and aerospace industry expert Bob Pillay reveals the five key principles that...

Magnificent Parent is the essential guide for new and expecting parents who want to raise confident, healthy, and thriving children right from day one. Written by international author and parenting educator Peter Rowan, this book is packed with practical...

The Inevitable Hour is the sixth and final volume of the “Australian Doctors at War” series, covering the period from January 1943 to the disbanding of the Second Australian Imperial Force in April 1947. Even after, the Japanese had been driven from...

Volume five of the "Australian Doctors at War" series covers the period from December 1941 to January 1943, when the Japanese crossed New Guinea, threatening to invade Australia until they were driven back over the Kokoda Track.

A first hand political, personal and historical commentary, including author David Solomon’s experience of the Whitlam dismissal in 1975, and Sir John Kerr’s divulgences about his aspiration to be Prime Minister. FOOTNOTES is partly autobiographical,...

Anna had a powerful bond with her great grandmother. And when she passed away she left Anna something very special. It would take her back to old Naples, to plagues, the Fontanelle cemetery and to the cult of the dead. Halstead Press presents Paul...

Sometimes things just happen. And when a number of things just happen around the same time in the same place there can be unexpected outcomes. This book is about Australia in the 1870s. It involves a disastrous shipwreck, a young Irish woman named Eva...

Coming home from a friend’s house one Sunday afternoon, Thomas came across a street full of rubbish. Piles of it in front of peoples’ homes. It was a council clean up. Thomas peered into the heaps of stuff … and then something caught his eye on one of...

As white settlement spread along railways and through the agricultural areas of Australia, almost every important town boasted a large sophisticated flour mill. This handsome illustrated survey of flour milling reflects the story of Australia in general...

This effervescent history is a window into the wonderful world of community radio—an inspiration to fans of free expression, wherever they are. Forty six unsorted boxes in a damp basement contained the “archives” of one of Australia’s least orthodox...

Alarmists and deniers rarely go head to head in the climate change debate. They preach instead to sympathetic audiences whose minds are made up. This book, however, is designed to address open-minded readers and explain in lay terms how greenhouse gases...

Colourful brands and packaging erupted in the 1920s and 30s, when tariffs killed flour exports to Europe. Australian manufacturers courted Asian markets with fun and exciting new labelling. Junk brand, Hand brand, Relief brand, “Girl and Dragon”,...

Jack the Super Prawn lives in the Barrier Reef and uses his powers to protect the environ-ment. With JackVac, he cleans up rubbish and impurities in seawater. With JackCopter, he soars high into the air, where you wouldn’t normally see a prawn. Of course...

This book features a carefully curated collection of Kerry Leishmans artwork as it appeared throughout newspaper publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age over several decades, includes comments from famous and infamous columnists, as...

A lively and thorough telling of one of Australia’s greatest front page scandals, involving key figures of the nation’s art movement, politicians and business leaders, with William Dobell and Joshua Smith caught in the middle. Whilst World War II raged...

When Chris Skinner’s mate Stew asked where he’d like to go for his 60th, no one expected “Mt Everest by motorbike”. If you’re used to creature comforts, wary about what you eat, and never know when you’ll need patching up in a good hospital, you might...

Jack the Super Prawn lives in the Barrier Reef and uses his powers to protect the environ-ment. With JackVac, he cleans up rubbish and impurities in seawater. With JackCopter, he soars high into the air, where you wouldn’t normally see a prawn. Of course...

Graceful, intelligent and huge, Whales cast a spell over the human species. But their thoughts and ways of life lie beyond our understanding, in an alien habitat. A few people who’ve dived and made their acquaintance come closer to penetrating the...

Greyhound racing has a contentious history in New South Wales—2017 was not the first time that its existence was threatened, and it probably won’t be the last. Now, for the first time, a comprehensive history of the sport has been collected, deftly...

The field of science in Australia would be poorer if not for Charles Martin. The indefatigable Englishman served the physiology departments of burgeoning universities in Sydney and Melbourne at the end of the 19th century, before returning home to run...

What do Julius Caesar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thomas More and , Pope Innocent III all share?. What eanbled a deaf Beethoven, a blind Milton, a syphilitic Schubert and a certifiable Virginia Woolf to create memorable masterpieces? Peter Deakin takes a new...

What do near death experiences tell us about life after death? Rev John Spooner believes in Heaven and the afterlife, but he is careful not to let Christian doctrine get in the way of an open-minded inquiry about what death has in store for us all. He...

Reclining in the shade of a rotunda, or being serenaded from a bandstand, everyone has fond memories of sunny days in parks and pavilions. Criss-crossing the country, from Albany to Toogoolawah, travellers can find little gems that adorn the land...

English, Dutch, French, American and Russian ships anhjored alongside convict vessels in Sydneys peaceful harbour. they carried Matthew Flinders and other famous navigators; political prisoners, daring escapees, Aborigines and Maoris making their first...

Church leaders of all persuasions and prominent lay Christians have opened up to Graham Downie over forty years on the issues and feelings that matter to them most. Cardinal Pell, Desmond Tutu, Anglican hardliner Peter Jensen, lapsed GG Peter...

Author Bob Phillips crunches the numbers to provide an exhaustive analysis of risk from the cradle to the grave. Reveals how much safer it is to be a woman than a man. Points out hazards like shark attacks that were very scared of despite their rarity...

In a world full of conceptual theories of leadership, Pam Ryan goes back to experience to discover patterns and principles that actually work for the person in the bosss chair. After decades leading in Australian and overseas schools and government, she...

The global leader in digital core analysis for oil and gas exploration is a firm linked to the UNSW and ANU. The company which introduced large scale multi-player computer games—with technology that recently gained dominance of the Chinese market—is the...

The Poets and Perspectives Series has been applauded —by students, poets, critics and educators—for stimulating enjoyment and interest. It combines information and critical essays in the same volume as a sampling of each poets finest work. Titles...

The 125 year story of one of the worlds greatest urban parks. Centennial Park, in the heart of Sydney, opened in 1888 to mark the centenary of colonisation. It has been the stage for celebration of Federation and many other national milestones.This book...