Penguin Books Australia

The years 1975 to 1996 were witness to the largest mass migration in modern history, with more than a million people leaving their war-torn homeland, Vietnam, in search of safety.

CultureShock! Singapore takes you inside the tiny island nation and pulls back the veneer on a country that is both Asian and Western at the same time.

CultureShock! Singapore takes you inside the tiny island nation and pulls back the veneer on a country that is both Asian and Western at the same time.

CultureShock! Australia is chock-full of information that will help you assimilate effortlessly into life in the land Down Under.

CultureShock! Philippines is a survival guide for anyone living, working or wanting to discover life in the Philippines

Every child needs to be loved. But Sally's desire to be told she was special came at a price no child should have to pay. She was only three years old when she felt her Daddy's large hands moving under her skirt when she sat on his knee.
 
Her beloved mother suspected that something was wrong, but instead of tackling her husband, she took refuge in the bottle. She died when Sally was just six...

Over recent years seismic changes have taken place in the structure and direction of the media and entertainment industries. Since the launch of the first commercial web browser, to the advent of broadband, digital downloads and on-line virtual worlds, patterns of consumer behaviour have adapted and evolved enormously, embracing new opportunities and having an indelible impact upon the commercial nature...

'Andrew Westoll is a born story teller: The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary involves us in a world few understand.  And leaves us marvelling at the ways in which chimpanzees are so like us, deserve our help and are entitled to our respect.'
JANE GOODALL PhD, DBE, Founder of Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace

Thirteen chimpanzees live on a small farm in the Canadian countryside.  Retired...

One woman's true story of giving the greatest gift of all

In her late thirties, with three children of her own, Sue Phillips chose to carry a baby for a couple who were unable to conceive. She didn't do it for money, or because they asked her to, or because she wanted the baby herself. She did it because she couldn't bear being in a position to help them and doing nothing.

Chocolate is synonymous with pleasure, but the real story of chocolate is often far from sweet. Bitter Chocolate begins by tracing the fascinating origins and lore of the cocoa craze while showing that exploitation and inequity have always been closely tied to chocolate production throughout its long history. The modern...

In this compelling book, eleven stories from across Australia show how one person can be a catalyst for change. A Victorian mother overturns a law preventing her family receiving compensation for her asbestos-related...

Global warming has become one of the permanent concerns of our time, with ever stronger calls to combat it via drastic programs, like the Kyoto Protocol. In this highly controversial book, Bjorn Lomborg (author of the bestselling The Skeptical Environmentalist ) claims that the arguments for such action are little more than scaremongering and exposes this wide range of disinformation.

If we want to communicate effectively in both our professional and personal lives, it is crucial that we not only send out the right signals but understand how to 'read' others –this book shows you how. With the second edition of this bestselling book, readers will learn how to:

Most of us feel a little unsure in some situations – whether it's entering a room full of strangers, going to a party, speaking in front of an audience, attending a networking event or even just talking to a person one-to-one.

This is a book for anybody who would like to know how they can enter any situation, with any number or type of people, and feel confident doing it.

In these pages you'll...

Jackie was an unwanted child. So unwanted that her mother regularly left Jackie at her uncle's house. Which was when the nightmare started. For when his wife went out, her uncle's friends came round. He had a Special Room. In it Jackie was tied up and molested, beaten, burnt by cigarettes and urinated on. Sometimes other children were brought along. Jackie got to know the Special Room intimately.
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IN THE MIDST OF A WORLDWIDE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS, JOHN RALSTON SAUL REVISITS THE ROLE OF GLOBALISM

In 1999, Saul began arguing that Globalism was collapsing.  In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism .  Now Saul has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next.