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Book Cover:  What is Your Self Worth? A Woman's Guide to Validation
By Cheryl Saban

Psychologist, philanthropist, and family advocate Cheryl Saban, Ph.D., is on a mission! What Is Your Self‑Worth? is a 'call to action' for women around the world to take a look at how society perceives them, how they perceive themselves and how women can adopt a personal mindset to choose happiness.

You can form new habits! You can find your voice! You can surrender a perceived lack of control...

Psychologist, philanthropist, and family advocate Cheryl Saban, Ph.D., is on a mission! What Is Your Self‑Worth? is a 'call to action' for women around the world to take a look at how society perceives...

Published: 22/11/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781401923969
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Jewels and Ashes
By Arnold Zable

'Do you ever think about those you left behind?', I ask father.
'Not often', he says. 'Such memories are a luxury I can't afford.'

Jewels and Ashes is the result of that journey of discovery. Moving effortlessly between centuries and continents, and across inner and outer land-scapes, it is an astonishing achievement. In one stroke, the Jewish historical experience has become a gift to the world.

'Do you ever think about those you left behind?', I ask father.
'Not often', he says. 'Such memories are a luxury I can't afford.'

Jewels and Ashes is the result of that journey of discovery. Moving effortlessly...

Published: 01/02/2001
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780908011209
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond
By Liz McQuiston
The developing role of graphics in the struggle for women's liberation.
The developing role of graphics in the struggle for women's liberation.
Published: 16/03/2000
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780714836195
RRP: $79.95
Book Cover:  Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark
By Susan Sheridan

In the decades after World War II, the literary scene in Australia flourished: local writers garnered international renown and local publishers sought and produced more Australian books.  The traditional view of postwar period is of successful male writers, with women still confined to the domestic sphere.  In Nine Lives , Susan Sheridan rewrites the pages of history to foreground the women...

In the decades after World War II, the literary scene in Australia flourished: local writers garnered international renown and local publishers sought and produced more Australian books.  The traditional...

Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702238680
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover: The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte
By Rod Moss

A story of whitefella–blackfella friendship that offers hope for the future

Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs to teach painting, he met a married couple who had set up camp in the gully beside his flat. Over the next twenty-five years, his friendship with Xavier and Petrina Neil and the friendships that grew from it with the families of Whitegate, an Arrernte camp on the...

A story of whitefella–blackfella friendship that offers hope for the future

Two years after artist Rod Moss arrived in Alice Springs to teach painting, he met a married couple who had set up camp...

Published: 03/05/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702237744
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Millie & The Night Heron
Published: 02/05/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702235269
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover:  What The Sky Knows
By Nike Bourke & Stella Danalis
A magical book of wonder, curiosity and imagination. This story invites you to fly with birds and angels, float with clouds and balloons, to change colours, blow breezes and stir up storms.

Stunningly illustrated by Stella Danalis, What the Sky Knows follows a dreamer's journey through the vibrant landscapes of a child's world.

A magical book of wonder, curiosity and imagination. This story invites you to fly with birds and angels, float with clouds and balloons, to change colours, blow breezes and stir up storms.

Stunningly...

Published: 10/07/2006
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780702235016
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence
By Doris Pilkington
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native...
The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home. Under Western Australia's...
Published: 19/09/2002
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702233555
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949

'It was a beautiful sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. I stood on the verandah, just trying to make my mind think: 'War – we're at War'. It was unreal.'

In September 1939 Mary Angove from Plymouth was barely sixteen. A time-honoured sex divide that allocated home-making to women and world affairs to men found her, and millions like her, unprepared for the century's greatest conflict.

'It was a beautiful sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. I stood on the verandah, just trying to make my mind think: 'War – we're at War'. It was unreal.'

In September 1939 Mary Angove from Plymouth...

Published: 06/07/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670917785
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Mia Culpa: Confessions from the Watercooler of Life
Mia Culpa is funny, moving and just like one long, wonderful dinner-party conversation. Mia's blog Mamamia is one of Australia's most popular online destinations.
Mia Culpa is funny, moving and just like one long, wonderful dinner-party conversation. Mia's blog Mamamia is one of Australia's most popular online destinations.
Published: 28/02/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670075515
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
By Chaz Bono
Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male.
Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male.
Published: 01/06/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780525952145
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Big Jewish Book for Jews: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Really Jewish Jew
By Ellis Weiner & Barbara Davilman

'Before I read this book, I was using only 10 percent of my Jewish brain.  Now I'm rich!  Thanks Jew Book!' - JOEL STEIN

ATTENTION, G-D'S CHOSEN PEOPLE:

* Did you purchase an evergreen tree last year and call it (with a straight face) a 'Chanukah Bush'?

* Do you really think your rabbi would approve of Heeb, Jewcy, and JDate?

* When a dinner party guest says he doesn't want seconds, do you...

'Before I read this book, I was using only 10 percent of my Jewish brain.  Now I'm rich!  Thanks Jew Book!' - JOEL STEIN

ATTENTION, G-D'S CHOSEN PEOPLE:

* Did you purchase an evergreen tree last...

Published: 07/10/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780452296442
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be
By Chaz Bono

Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male

Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452298002
RRP: $19.99
Book Cover: The Tin Ticket
By Deborah J Swiss

Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-women who created the most liberated society of their time.

Convicted of minor crimes, four women-Agnes McMillan, Janet Houston, Bridget Mulligan, and Ludlow Tedder-were exiled to Van Diemen's Land, later known as Tasmania. ...

Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-women who created the most...

Published: 07/12/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425243077
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
The story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.
The story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.
Published: 11/11/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780425236727
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
By Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their lifetimes-turning heads while making waves. Scandalous Women tells the stories of the risk takers who have flouted convention, beaten the odds, and determined the course of world events.

Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcées, actresses, and outlaws have created a ruckus during their...

Published: 21/04/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399536458
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Mia Culpa

' Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Engaging stuff.'
SUNDAY AGE

Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask  'What do you write about?' Tricky question. It's a lot like asking a woman who's just come home from a girls' dinner 'What did you talk about?'  The short answer? 

Everything!






' Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Engaging stuff.'
SUNDAY AGE

Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask  'What do you write...





Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143566656
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Introducing Maori Art
By Deirdre Brown

Traditional works in wood, bone, greenstone, feathers and fibre are collected in this guide to Maori art. Art historian Deidre Brown has selected the finest of Brian Brake's photographs and adds an interesting and informative introduction.

Traditional works in wood, bone, greenstone, feathers and fibre are collected in this guide to Maori art. Art historian Deidre Brown has selected the finest of Brian Brake's photographs and adds an interesting...

Published: 21/04/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143205128
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine
By Jennifer Scanlon

'[A] cracking new biography . . . of an icon whose optimistic, go-getter vision of female emancipation helped bring on [feminism's] third wave.'
- Naomi Wolf, The Washington Post

'[A] cracking new biography . . . of an icon whose optimistic, go-getter vision of female emancipation helped bring on [feminism's] third wave.'
- Naomi Wolf, The Washington Post

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143118121
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Introducing Maori Culture
By Don Stafford

-  When was Aotearoa discovered?

-  How was Maori society organised in pre-European times?

-  What is traditional Maori art?

-  How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today?

History and culture, from the great Polynesian migration to present-day sport and politics, are explored in this introduction to the world of the Maori.

-  When was Aotearoa discovered?

-  How was Maori society organised in pre-European times?

-  What is traditional Maori art?

-  How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today?

History...

Published: 15/09/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143010821
RRP: $14.95

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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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