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A Story of Grief (Penguin Special) by Michaela McGuire
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
When Jill Meagher was murdered on a Brunswick street in September last year, Melbourne and, indeed, all of Australia were horrified. People became desperately interested in the story, with pleas for moderation on social media coming from the police and Meagher's husband, and with news reports hashing ov ...Show more
Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institue Paper - Penguin Specials by Peter Hartcher
$9.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the w ...Show more
Alastair Sawday Italy: Special Places to Stay by Florence Fortnam
$42.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay
Here are hundreds of irresistible excuses for going to Italy. Be welcomed and utterly seduced by the vitality and sheer authenticity of Italy and its people. This collection of some 400 places provides ready-made friends and contacts, with beautiful and interesting houses to spend time in. Stay in a B&a ...Show more
America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? by Kori Schake
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
"The rules-based international order is being challenged... not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor, the US." --European Council President Donald Tusk, 8 June 2018 Under President Donald Trump, the United States has burned like a wildfire through the goodwill it accrued in 70 ...Show more
Back In Time (#2 Geronimo Stilton: Journey Through Time) by Geronimo Stilton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Geronimo Stilton Special Edition
Return to the past with Geronimo Stilton in this fabumouse special edition! Imagine my surprise when I, Geronimo Stilton, was offered the chance to travel back in time again! Professor Paws von Volt entrusted me to lead my family on a secret journey in his new time machine. This voyage took us to ancien ...Show more
Ballots Bullets and Kabulshit - An Afghan Election by Toby Ralph
$9.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Specials | Reading Level: very good
Toby Ralph, described as one of the 'most powerful spinners and advisers in Australia', joined a UN team to assist with preparations for Afghanistan's 2009 presidential elections. Ballots, Bullets and Kabulshit offers a rare glimpse into the chaos and danger of attempting to deliver democracy in a war z ...Show more
Beauty's Sister (Penguin Special) by James Bradley
$9.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Specials
Juniper, living deep in the forest with her parents, is stunned to discover that the beautiful girl living isolated in a nearby tower is her sister. When the two girls meet, what begins as a fascination and a friendship ultimately develops into something truly sinister. A story of jealousy, passion and ...Show more
Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
Choosing Openness: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Why global engagement is best for Australia by Andrew Leigh
$9.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
Across the developed world, global engagement has become a major political fault line. Populists say that we should hunker down in the face of difference, that trade is a zero-sum game, and that foreign investment will cost us in the long run. They say openness is the cause of the growing income gap. Th ...Show more
Condemned to Crisis: A Lowy Institute Paper by Ken Ward
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
It is often said that no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia. Yet the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran is just the latest in a long line of crises that have marred relations between Canberra and Jakarta. Does Australia really need to do more to strengthen its ties with Ind ...Show more
Desert Files (Zac Power Special Files #8) by H. I. Larry
$14.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Zac Power Special Files | Reading Level: 06-09
Two of Zac's most SCORCHING missions in one book: SUDDEN DROP and TOMB OF DOOM !First, in Sudden Drop, Zac uncovers an evil plan to melt the polar ice caps and flood the entire world! Zac has to go into the desert to stop BIG from hijacking a secret water supply. Then, in Tomb of Doom, Zac has to rescue ...Show more
Does Cooking Matter? (Penguin Special) by Rebecca Huntley
$9.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials