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Book Cover:  Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
By Tom Scocca

A FASCINATING INSIDE LOOK AT THE ENIGMATIC CAPITAL OF THE FUTURE-BEIJING, CHINA

A FASCINATING INSIDE LOOK AT THE ENIGMATIC CAPITAL OF THE FUTURE-BEIJING, CHINA

Published: 28/09/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781594487842
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future
By Tom Scocca

A definitive, and highly entertaining, account of contemporary Beijing, the undisputed capital of the twenty-first century.

A definitive, and highly entertaining, account of contemporary Beijing, the undisputed capital of the twenty-first century.

Published: 22/08/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594485800
RRP: $19.99
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life After Death
By Diane Ahlquist
A belief in the afterlife – what happens to the spirit, the essence of a person and personality after the body ceases to be – is common to almost every faith and culture the world over. Even people who don't ascribe to a religion or consider themselves spiritual share a fascination in life after death; they may just look at it in a different way.
A belief in the afterlife – what happens to the spirit, the essence of a person and personality after the body ceases to be – is common to almost every faith and culture the world over. Even...
Published: 07/08/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592576517
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Pocket Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra
By Ron Louis & David Copeland
Books and guides to enhancing one's sex life have become a highly successful genre within the relationships category. Among the most successful books are the translations of arguably the most famous sex manual in history: the Kama Sutra.

Now, to build on the success of Alpha's The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Second Edition , is this new, easy-to-use (and highly illustrated) The Pocket...

Books and guides to enhancing one's sex life have become a highly successful genre within the relationships category. Among the most successful books are the translations of arguably the most famous sex...
Published: 15/02/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592573318
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Complete Flags of the World (5th Edition)
By Dorling Kindersley

From Antigua to New Zealand discover the flags of the world with this complete guide published in association with the Flag Institute.

Travel to each country of the world using the small-scale map and find out about over 300 national, international, official and provincial flags from across the globe.

Each national flag is covered: detailed notes and annotations will tell you all about its history...

From Antigua to New Zealand discover the flags of the world with this complete guide published in association with the Flag Institute.

Travel to each country of the world using the small-scale map and...

Published: 27/10/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405333023
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Culture Shock! Singapore: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
By Marion Bravo-Bhasin

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.

Published: 06/11/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780761456766
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Culture Shock: Singapore
By Marion Bravo-Bhasin

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.

Published: 01/09/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780761480631
RRP: $26.99
Book Cover:  Culture Shock! Australia: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
By Ilsa Sharp

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

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

Published: 06/11/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780761454724
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Culture Shock! Philippines: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
By Alfredo Roces & Grace Roces

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

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

Published: 06/11/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780761456711
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Together
By Richard Sennett

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today.  Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves.  Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of complexity...

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today.  Though our society is becoming ever more complicated...

Published: 07/03/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780713998740
RRP: $45.00
Book Cover:  Bigger or Better? Australia's Population Debate
By Ian Lowe

A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia's population numbers.

A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia's population numbers.

Published: 22/02/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702239090
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Curtains: Adventures of an undertaker in training
By Tom Jokinen

If Bill Bryson were to join a funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains .

If Bill Bryson were to join a funeral home as an apprentice, and if he searched for the meaning of life and death while he was at it, you'd have Curtains .

Published: 29/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702238512
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Down To This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big City Shanty Town
By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
'The rules I've set out for myself are simple: no money or friends, except those I might find from here on in. I'll do what the others do to get by, be whatever bum I choose: vagrant, beggar, wino, criminal, busker, con man or tramp, on any given day.'

In November 2001, 27 year old Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall packed his life in a bag – complete with tent, notebooks, pen and a broken heart –...

'The rules I've set out for myself are simple: no money or friends, except those I might find from here on in. I'll do what the others do to get by, be whatever bum I choose: vagrant, beggar, wino, criminal...
Published: 08/01/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702235931
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Any Guru Will Do: A Modern Man's Search For Meaning
By Phil Brown
Phil Brown's life has been one long existential crisis. His path to enlightenment has been uphill – think of climbing Everest with a colonic irrigation or two along the way. Join Phil as he searches for meaning in the most unlikely places.

Phil's journey begins inauspiciously when he is carted out of a health farm on a stretcher – good food and vigorous exercise apparently weren't a clever...

Phil Brown's life has been one long existential crisis. His path to enlightenment has been uphill – think of climbing Everest with a colonic irrigation or two along the way. Join Phil as he searches...
Published: 22/09/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702235429
RRP: $23.95
Book Cover:  Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Womenand Feminism
By Aileen Moreton-robinson
Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson "talks up" in this provocative interrogation of feminism in representation and practice. As a Geonpul woman and an academic, she provides a unique cultural standpoint and a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women.

Through an extensive range of articles by non-white scholars and activists, she demonstrates the...

Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson "talks up" in this provocative interrogation of feminism in representation and practice. As a Geonpul woman and an academic, she provides a unique cultural standpoint...
Published: 02/10/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780702231346
RRP: $22.00
Book Cover:  Funeral Rights: What the Australian 'death care' industry doesn't want  you to know
How can a funeral director charge $700 for a chipboard coffin worth only $80?

Why are there moves afoot to re-use graves in cemeteries?

Can we choose to be buried in a cardboard coffin?

Australia's 'death-care' industry is worth a staggering $700 million a year, and despite the fact that each of us will one day have to deal with those in the 'dismal trade', few of us know how the business of dying...

How can a funeral director charge $700 for a chipboard coffin worth only $80?

Why are there moves afoot to re-use graves in cemeteries?

Can we choose to be buried in a cardboard coffin?

Australia's 'death-care'...

Published: 04/06/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670071081
RRP: $32.95
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:  Serial Killers
By Peter Vronsky
In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he classifies as "the serial rampage killer" such as...
In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century...
Published: 23/06/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425196403
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Cannibal
By Lois Jones
The true story of the maneater of Rotenburg – and his willing victim.

German native Armin Meiwes killed and ate a man who answered his ad on a cannibal website. Now, Cannibal discloses for the first time the true story of this real-life Hannibal Lecter – and his willing victim. And with details never before divulged to the public, it takes readers step-by-step through the unspeakable crime...

The true story of the maneater of Rotenburg – and his willing victim.

German native Armin Meiwes killed and ate a man who answered his ad on a cannibal website. Now, Cannibal discloses for the first...

Published: 23/06/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425200667
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover: The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
By Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

The most influential and talked about book on society in the last decade – now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.

'Profound . . . brave . . .  transformative . . .  its conclusion is simple: we do better when we're equal'  Lynsey Hanley, Guardian

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than the Japanese do?  Why do Americans have higher rates...

The most influential and talked about book on society in the last decade – now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.

'Profound . . . brave . . .  transformative...

Published: 10/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241954294
RRP: $26.95

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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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