Penguin Books Australia

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 .

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

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...

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

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...

'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...

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 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...