Penguin Books Australia

Based on 400 hours of interviews with over seventy of The Stone Roses' closest associates, including six former band members, War and Peace is the first major biography of the band that defined a generation.

Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiancé is dead - admittedly by her own hand - her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, still at large. It falls upon Miss Temple's tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world.

From Nell Freudenberger, one of America's most dazzling talents, comes an utterly captivating cross-continental love story

  'Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part'
Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist of Apple and author of The Art of the Start
 
Edison said that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare. While most books tell you how to release...

For the first time in history, we are interacting with computer programmes so sophisticated that we think they're human beings . . .

I was a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing.

I was tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts.  So I am not cleva, so please forgive my folts any my mistayks.

I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde your deepist dremes.

Wons I was the anjel childe.
Now I am the monster.
Just read...

'If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are just curious about entrepreneurship, read this book.'  Randy Komisar, founding director of TiVo

Most new businesses fail. But many of those failures are preventable.

The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way...

Boardrooms are adapting to a new and brutal reality; there is no such thing as an offline business. And if you don't embrace digital, you'll be out of business altogether.

Blockbuster, AOL, Yahoo and Borders were all unstoppable, but they didn't see the new economic order coming. Google, Facebook, Groupon and Twitter barely existed at the turn of the millennium, but are now rocketing ahead.

1880. South Africa. A country torn apart by greed.

Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake by her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to teh Cape.

In April 1982 as the Falklands War got underway, the destroyer HMS Antrim , found herself steaming south through the Atlantic to spearhead the operation to recover South Georgia from the Argentinians. Equipped with 4.5 inch guns, anti-aircraft missiles and four Exocet missiles, she also carried one Wessex III helicopter, affectionately known as Humphrey, which was to play an extraordinary part in the...

The Charlatans have had three UK Number One albums and seventeen Top Thirty singles. But they've also had to face the imprisonment and death of keyboard player Rob Collins and an accountant who ran off with all their money. Not to mention the rock 'n' roll excesses of singer Tim Burgess.

Apple is the world's most iconic company. It creates products that people fall in love with - and then markets them with spectacular success.

Ken Segall has been behind much of that marketing for many years. He created the 'i', encouraged us to 'Think Different', and in the process played a key role in Apple's resurrection

The Ultimate Project Guide for Dads and Kids

Calling all Geek Dads! What would it take to tear your children away from their computer screens? How about if they could launch a camera into orbit, make their own film, or even build a rope swing?

This hands-on manual is packed with fun-filled projects for dads and kids to enjoy together, from exploding drinks to water slides.

Thirty-something Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved on from the accidental death of his young son Brendan and the subsequent break up of his marriage to Chloe. He still has disturbing dreams occasionally, but he's in love again, with a fine woman called Alison, his job is going well, and he believes he has mastered his memories.

Austria, 1928. A young man stands unjustly accused of murdering his father. Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann speak out on his behalf. Sigmund Freud is called to testify. The trial that ensues, in which he tries to clear his name, sends shockwaves throughout Europe. In this crucible of injustice and grief, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century is formed.