Penguin Books Australia

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...

'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!

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...

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

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

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...

'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

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...