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Book Cover: The Penguin Book of Word Histories
By Fred McDonald

Compiled by Fred McDonald, this new book traces the origins and explains the meanings of approximately 15,000 words. Words with similar ancestry or semantic development are cross-referenced or subsumed into one entry, making comparisons easier for the reader. There is also a short introduction explaining the book's purpose and layout, and giving a very short account of the English language and the...

Compiled by Fred McDonald, this new book traces the origins and explains the meanings of approximately 15,000 words. Words with similar ancestry or semantic development are cross-referenced or subsumed...

Published: 16/06/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140282986
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Heinermans New Encyclopedia of Fruits & Vegetables
Published: 18/08/1995
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780132092302
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Understanding Ethics: Complete Idiot's Guide
Published: 01/02/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780028643250
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover: The Chaser Annual 2010: Eat, Pray, Vomit
By Chaser The

'MCC insists Iceland ashes must remain at Lords.'
'Turnbull resigns, will stay on as PM in his mind.'
'Wife becomes first to beat Tiger Woods with golf club.'

The best Chaser Annual yet!


'MCC insists Iceland ashes must remain at Lords.'
'Turnbull resigns, will stay on as PM in his mind.'
'Wife becomes first to beat Tiger Woods with golf club.'

The best Chaser Annual yet!


Published: 04/11/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921656736
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Chaser Annual 2009
By Chaser The

Despite the demands of successful ventures in stage, screen and their own richly rewarding fantasy lives, the Chaser team have found time to put together a new Annual.

As always, it will cause controversy. Critics will certainly wonder how grown men can continue to churn out offensive undergraduate claptrap at their age. But, as millions have discovered over the years, no one can really understand...

Despite the demands of successful ventures in stage, screen and their own richly rewarding fantasy lives, the Chaser team have found time to put together a new Annual.

As always, it will cause controversy...

Published: 30/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921520808
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Chaser Annual 2008
By Chaser The
You've seen them cover the election, you've watched their prime-time TV show, you may even have chanced a ticket to their hugely successful all-singing, all-dancing variety show which recently toured nationally. But you still want more of The Chaser. Which is why you need The Chaser Annual 2008. In these pages, you can delight in the unique comedy which has made The Chaser a national institution. This...
You've seen them cover the election, you've watched their prime-time TV show, you may even have chanced a ticket to their hugely successful all-singing, all-dancing variety show which recently toured nationally...
Published: 27/10/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921351853
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Chaser Annual 2005
By The Chaser
From the winners of the 2005 Logie for Most Outstanding Comedy come the 'pick of the year' articles from Australia's fortnightly satirical newspaper – now available online. The fifth Chaser Annual proves once again that the boundaries of good taste are there to be crossed!

Among this year's headlines: Dannii Minogue diagnosed with fake breast cancer; Tony Abbott's softer, human side actually...

From the winners of the 2005 Logie for Most Outstanding Comedy come the 'pick of the year' articles from Australia's fortnightly satirical newspaper – now available online. The fifth Chaser Annual...
Published: 11/10/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781920885977
RRP: $25.00
Book Cover: The Chaser Annual 2004
Published: 01/11/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781920885380
RRP: $25.00
Book Cover: The Penguin Book of Names for Australian Babies
Published: 21/11/2005
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742286976
Book Cover:  Aussie Slang
Published: 02/08/1999
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742286846
Book Cover:  Editing Made Easy
Published: 01/07/2003
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742286945
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fun FAQs
By Sandy Wood & Kara Kovalchik
Frequently Asked Questions is one of the most popular categories of infotainment. From history to sports, business to science, movies to art, literature to comics - the curious-minded are always asking questions to expand their knowledge and try to stump their friends.

Part game book, part trivia book and part information, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fun FAQs includes over 1,000 amusing, interesting...

Frequently Asked Questions is one of the most popular categories of infotainment. From history to sports, business to science, movies to art, literature to comics - the curious-minded are always asking...
Published: 30/06/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592577545
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Published: 01/06/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585422500
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  Complete Atlas of the World
By Dorling Kindersley

See Earth in ten times more detail than ever before

From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent by continent with the Complete Atlas of the World.

Cross the globe from your armchair with 330 maps including 100 city plans showing the world's political and physical geography in the clearest way possible. Landscapes are brought to life through detailed terrain models and colour schemes giving...



See Earth in ten times more detail than ever before

From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent by continent with the Complete Atlas of the World.

Cross the globe from your armchair with 330...



Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405394413
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover: The London Compendium
By Ed Glinert

'Addictively browsable'   Independent , Books of the Year  

'Splendid . . . This is a book that brings the underground to the surface, be it in the form of psychedelic rock clubs, suffragettes and political radicals, or the secret tunnels that link buildings across the capital in case of war'   Daily Telegraph



'Addictively browsable'   Independent , Books of the Year  

'Splendid . . . This is a book that brings the underground to the surface, be it in the form of psychedelic rock clubs, suffragettes...

Published: 02/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718192044
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  E H Gombrich: a bibiography: a scholarly bibliography of the writings   Professor Gombrich
By J B Trapp
A scholarly bibliography of the writings Professor Gombrich.
A scholarly bibliography of the writings Professor Gombrich.
Published: 15/10/2000
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714839813
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication from  Gutenberg to Google
By Patchen Barss

A revealing exploration of surprising, longstanding link between pornography and the evolution of mass communication

From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without...

A revealing exploration of surprising, longstanding link between pornography and the evolution of mass communication

From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the...

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702238666
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Bibliography Of Australian Literature Volume 2
Published: 31/01/2005
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780702235009
RRP: $175.00
Book Cover:  Writing Round the Edges
Published: 05/05/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702233746
RRP: $24.00

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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