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Book Cover:  Engineers: Great Tales of Achievement and Ingenuity
By Hart-Davis & Adam

An epic visual guide to the great engineers who have built our world

Full of great tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates 80 of the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on the world. Learn all about how their projects have changed the course of history and added to human progress from the men who built the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Industrial Revolution...

An epic visual guide to the great engineers who have built our world

Full of great tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates 80 of the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they...

Published: 26/04/2012
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405375696
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: The Big Ideas that Changed the World
By Dorling Kindersley

Discover the big ideas that changed our world

From matches to mobiles, antibiotics and the flexible drinking straw - some inventions don't just change the way we do things but change the world. Marvel at some of the world's most amazing discoveries that have made a sensation, from the first wheel to satellite navigation. Kids will love the incredible facts and info, such as why the tin can was...

Discover the big ideas that changed our world

From matches to mobiles, antibiotics and the flexible drinking straw - some inventions don't just change the way we do things but change the world. Marvel...

Published: 30/08/2010
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781405356831
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You
In The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser uncovers how this hidden personalised web threatens to control how we consume and share information as a society - and shows what we can do about it.
In The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser uncovers how this hidden personalised web threatens to control how we consume and share information as a society - and shows what we can do about it.
Published: 28/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670920389
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet

You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen?

In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian authorities simply switched off 70% of the country's internet connections in an attempt to quell a revolution. In 2009, a squirrel chewed through...

You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen?

In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670918980
RRP: $27.99
Book Cover:  You Are Not A Gadget
By Jaron Lanier

'Fabulous – I couldn't put it down and shouted out Yes! Yes! on many pages . . . a landmark book that will have people talking and arguing for years into the future'
Lee Smolin

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselves than ever before . . . yet no...

'Fabulous – I couldn't put it down and shouted out Yes! Yes! on many pages . . . a landmark book that will have people talking and arguing for years into the future'
Lee Smolin

Something went...

Published: 06/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141049113
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Robustness Development and Reliability Growth (Six Sigma Training): Value Adding Strategies for New Products and Processes
By John P King & William S Jewett

The first 'Design for Six Sigma' book totally focused on the crucial roles of reliability and robustness in the product development process

The first 'Design for Six Sigma' book totally focused on the crucial roles of reliability and robustness in the product development process

Published: 11/06/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780132225519
RRP: $79.95
Book Cover:  Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, Second Edition
By Scott Fogler & Steven LeBlanc
This book provides a framework to hone and polish any person's creative problem-solving skills.
This book provides a framework to hone and polish any person's creative problem-solving skills.
Published: 24/09/2007
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780130082794
RRP: $64.95
Book Cover:  Network+ Exam Guide
Published: 02/12/1999
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780789721570
RRP: $84.95
Book Cover:  Digital Texturing and Painting
Published: 09/08/2001
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780735709188
RRP: $119.95
Book Cover:  Inside 3D Studio VIZ 3
Published: 11/09/2000
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780735710023
RRP: $105.95
Book Cover:  3ds Max 4 Magic
Published: 15/05/2001
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780735710931
RRP: $87.95
Book Cover:  Richard II: York Notes Advanced
Published: 17/01/2003
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780582424555
RRP: $14.95
Book Cover:  Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, Second Edition
By Dan Saffer
Groundbreaking book updated to add more emphasis on the designer's role in strategy, research, brainstorming, prototyping and development. The only book devoted exclusively to teaching interaction design to those new to the field. More than a how-to manual: comprehensive coverage of interaction design fundamentals, exploration of the design process, and more. Complete coverage of touchscreen...
Groundbreaking book updated to add more emphasis on the designer's role in strategy, research, brainstorming, prototyping and development. The only book devoted exclusively to teaching interaction...
Published: 09/09/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780321643391
RRP: $54.95
Book Cover:  3ds Max 8 Fundamentals
By Ted Boardman
Thoroughly updated guide covers every core technique and skill needed to master the popular 3D program!
Thoroughly updated guide covers every core technique and skill needed to master the popular 3D program!
Published: 24/05/2006
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780321412539
RRP: $59.95
Book Cover:  Four Days with Dr. Deming: A Strategy for Modern Methods of Management
By William Latzko & David Saunders
Dr. W. Edwards Deming is the legendary master of managing for quality. Reviewed by Dr. Deming himself just before his death, this unique book communicates the essence of his four-day seminars in a remarkably entertaining and easy-to-absorb style. Through a one-concept-per-page visual format, the book leads you through the essentials of Dr. Deming's theories and techniques. It covers Dr. Deming's System...
Dr. W. Edwards Deming is the legendary master of managing for quality. Reviewed by Dr. Deming himself just before his death, this unique book communicates the essence of his four-day seminars in a remarkably...
Published: 26/01/1995
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780201633665
RRP: $41.95
Book Cover:  Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design: Using Taguchi Methods in Technology and Product Development
By William Fowlkes & Clyde Creveling
Robust Design is the procedure used by design engineers to reduce the effects of order to produce the highest quality products possible. This book includes real life case studies focusing on mechanical, chemical and imaging design that illustrate potential problems and their solutions and offers WinRobust Lite software and practice problems.
Robust Design is the procedure used by design engineers to reduce the effects of order to produce the highest quality products possible. This book includes real life case studies focusing on mechanical...
Published: 30/08/1995
Format: Disc & Book
ISBN: 9780201633672
RRP: $137.95
Book Cover:  Manufacturing for Survival: The How-to Guide for Practitioners and Managers
By Blair Williams
This book is the first easy-to-follow, practical how-to book on manufacturing. Without mathematics or theory, this book examines all the do's and don'ts of manufacturing, including quality, throughput, and employee involvement. The book concentrates on operational aspects and materials management, but addresses all the basics too.
This book is the first easy-to-follow, practical how-to book on manufacturing. Without mathematics or theory, this book examines all the do's and don'ts of manufacturing, including quality, throughput...
Published: 17/01/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780201633733
RRP: $94.95
Book Cover:  Design and Management Service Processes: Keeping Customers for Life
Published: 15/05/1996
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780201633832
RRP: $92.95
Book Cover:  Process Redesign: The Implementation Guide for Managers
Published: 05/09/1996
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780201633917
RRP: $84.95
Book Cover:  Geo-metrc Iii: Appl Geomtrc Dimensng&tolrnc
By Foster
With Geo-Metrics III , Lowell Foster updates his classic guide to geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T). Involved in the development of both U.S. National and ISO standards, the author presents the most up-to-date information available about the present and emerging standards that will harmonize national and international practices and be supportive of the ISO 9000 series of standards...
With Geo-Metrics III , Lowell Foster updates his classic guide to geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T). Involved in the development of both U.S. National and ISO standards, the author presents...
Published: 30/11/1993
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780201633429
RRP: $91.50

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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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