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Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat by Sally C. Davies; Mike Catchpole; Jonathan Grant
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Resistance to our current range of antibiotics is the new inconvenient truth. If we don't act now, we risk the health of our parents, our children and our grandchildren. Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have s ...Show more
Embarrassed Colonialist by Sean Dorney
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert S ...Show more
End of the Road?: Australia's love affair with the car industry, its current difficulties, and why we shouldn't rush into a divorce by Gideon Haigh
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Specials
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom - a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all. In this eng ...Show more
French Bed & Breakfast by Geraldine Roul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay
Britain's best-loved French B&B guide, now celebrating it's 18th anniversary edition, is ideal for independent travellers seeking a truly special place to stay. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, our French team has selected over 700 special B&Bs, making this our biggest guide yet ...Show more
French Chateaux & Hotels by Alastair Sawday
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay
Nineteen years of experience have gone into creating this trusted glove-pocket guide, a pleasure to read and the perfect gift for a Francophile friend. A seductive collection of 380 hotels, chateaux and auberges - beautiful, unusual, individual - have been selected and inspected in the best Sawday's tra ...Show more
Governor Bligh and The Short Man (Penguin Special) by Peter Cochrane
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
A cultured young Englishwoman, Mary is a complete novice at sea. She is entirely unprepared for life on the convoy that sets sail from Portsmouth in 1806: for the unfamiliar rituals, the great emptiness of the ocean, the terrifying storms, the bedazzling natural wonders. Most troubling of all is the biz ...Show more
Horrible Histories England by Terry Deary
$17.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Horrible Histories Special | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: * which monk tried to pinch the devil's nose with a pair of tongs? * why some people in the Middle Ages ate dove droppings? * which English king was accused of being a werewolf? Terry Deary reveals the aful truth behind the rebellions, riots and ru ...Show more
Is There No Place: Penguin Special by Kate Richards
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
Kate Richards experienced episodes of depression and psychosis well into her adult life. As a trained doctor working in medical research, she is well positioned to ask the hard questions about how we care for our people with mental illness. Using case studies and her own observations, Kate challenges th ...Show more
Klimt,The Kiss (Midi Lined) by Paperblanks
$34.95 AUD
Category: Journals | Series: Special Edition
Life in Ten Houses: Penguin Specials by Sonya Hartnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
The internationally celebrated writer Sonya Hartnett is firmly Melburnian but has restlessly moved from suburb to suburb in her search for the 'Last House' - that special corner of the world in which to settle and find contentment. Viewing her life and work through the lens of real estate, she vividly r ...Show more
Marrow by Yan Lianke
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
In a small village in the Balou Mountains, Fourth Wife You despairs of what the future holds for her four mentally-impaired children. A cure for the family curse appears, but it will extract a price so primal and complete that no one can be expected to make it except, perhaps, for a mother. A chilling a ...Show more
Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special by Liam Pieper
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Specials
Liam Pieper's made some poor life choices, but he's (usually) meant well. He's tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he's ended up with life-threatening infestations, a punch in the face at a Leonard Cohen concert and brief detention by counter-terr ...Show more