Penguin Books Australia

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...

'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.

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...

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...

'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.

'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...

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

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. ...

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.

' 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!

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.

'[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

-  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.