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Collins Australian Dictionary: Essential Edition by Collins Dictionaries

$14.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

Easy-to-carry, this fully updated guide to the French language is ideal for use in school, on holiday or for business. * This edition has been revised and updated to offer extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and French, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding you to the most approp riate translation. * A comprehensive grammar guide presents detailed examples and translations to help you to understand French - the perfect complement to the dictionary. * Full coverage of GCSE words and phrases to give you all the help you need when revising for your exams. * The new, clear layout gives the text a contemporary feel, and along with the new alphabet tabs, ensures that you find the information you need quickly and easily. ...Show more

Philip's Atlas of the World: 2014

$99.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

The 193 pages of detailed physical and political maps in Philip's Atlas of the World have been fully revised and updated. Praised by the Daily Mail as 'clearer than The Times', the unique combination of relief colouring and hill-shading gives an exceptional portrayal of landforms. This new edition inclu des the highly topical 'The Future of the Oceans and Seas' feature, which provides an overview and examines some of the major issues affecting the world's oceans today. The richly informative 'World Geography' section comprises 42 pages of maps, charts, diagrams and text explaining key world themes such as climate change, geology, trade, agriculture, industry and population. Also included are urban-area and city-centre maps for 70 of the world's largest and most economically important cities, including all major capitals, with locator maps to indicate each city's position in its global context. In addition, the 'Images of Earth' section shows spectacular satellite views of 17 major cities and regions across the globe. Illustrated with flags and locator maps, the 34-page A-Z 'Gazetteer of Nations' provides key facts and figures for every sovereign state. The 86,000-name index, including geographical features and historical place names as well as towns and cities, gives full latitude/longitude co-ordinates and letter-figure grid references. A 1,000-entry 'Geographical Glossary' explains the derivations of many unfamiliar place names - for example: wadi = dry watercourse; jebel = mountain. ...Show more

Spanish Dictionary

$9.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane

$26.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

"The house of fiction," wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." In this, his latest work, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors, takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from t heir respective rooms? His answer, A Million Windows, is a gorgeous (if unsettling) investigation into the glories and pitfalls of storytelling. Focusing on the importance of trust and the inevitability of betrayal in writing as in life, its nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader, child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fiction is woven from images-the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes, seemingly limitless grasslands, a procession of dark-haired women, a clearing in a forest, the colors indigo and silver-grey, and the mysterious death of a young woman-which build to an emotional crescendo that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning. ...Show more

Collins Junior Illustrated Thesaurus by Evelyn Goldsmith

$22.95 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE | Series: Collins Primary Dictionaries

Collins Junior Illustrated Thesaurus is especially designed for children aged 6-8, with all the features you'd expect from the world's favourite dictionary publishers: clear, user-friendly design, up-to-the-minute vocabulary and beautifully illustrated in full colour. A must for all budding writers!

Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross Raisin; Henry Carroll (Consultant Editor)

$24.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

This book demystifies the writing process, empowering you to write your own novel or short story. The author explains expert technique in a clear and jargon-free way, with examples from the fifty greatest writers of our time. For aspiring writers of all ages and abilities, Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writerwill motivate and strengthen your writing talent. ...Show more

How to be a Writer: Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors, and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft by John Birmingham

$24.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell is wo rkflow?', 'How to write 10,000 words in a day' and 'The best apps for writers'. How to Be a Writer is a kick-arse writing guide with a tough-love approach, written for the internet generation. John Birmingham is lauded as a prolific writer working across multiple genres. Here he shares his secrets. And some hard-core, real-world practical advice. And a few excellent descriptions of explosions. ...Show more

Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny

$29.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism and underground cultur e. This is a book about poverty and prejudice, online dating and eating disorders, riots in the streets and lies on the television. The backlash is on against sexual freedom for men and women and social justice - and feminism needs to get braver. Penny speaks for a new feminism that takes no prisoners, a feminism that is about justice and equality, but also about freedom for all. It's about the freedom to be who we are, to love who we choose, to invent new gender roles, and to speak out fiercely against those who would deny us those rights. It is a book that gives the silenced a voice - a voice that speaks of unspeakable things. ...Show more

Vietnamese Phrasebook CD Pack by .

$19.99 AUD

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With stunning new design and layout and the most up-to-date travel information, the market's most indispensable phrasebook CD pack has been reinvented, and is better than ever. Gem Vietnamese CD Pack will give you the right word at the right time -- every time. In all of the most common travel situation s, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and now with the completely re-designed Collins Gem Vietnamese CD Pack with an accompanying CD to help you hear and practise the language for real, the right word will always be at your fingertips. With a whole new look inside and out that includes a new cover and easy-to-navigate layout, it is now simpler than ever to use the Vietnamese language effectively and with confidence. This indispensable multimedia language guide covers the topics and phrases that crop up everyday on holiday, from finding a hotel to choosing wine.Includes: / Fully updated travel information / Travel tips / 3000 word dictionary / Comprehensive menu decoder / Grammar and pronunciation sections / "Face to face" sections / Accompanying CD to aid listening and speaking With the help of Gem Vietnamese CD Pack you will never be lost for words again. ...Show more

How to Write Your Blockbuster by Fiona McIntosh

$19.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

To write is a verb. That's an action word. No more procrastination. Almost everybody thinks they have a book in them or dreams of seeing their name on a front cover, but not everyone knows how to go about it. Sharing all she's learned so far, Fiona McIntosh, one of Australia's most successful commercial authors, shows you how to get started and, even more importantly, how to finish. In this practical and lively handbook McIntosh guides you through the stages of writing a novel, from establishing good working habits all the way through to submitting your draft to a suitable publisher. Chock-full of insider's advice on what makes a bestselling general fiction author, this invaluable resource will equip the newcomer to novel writing with the tools to finish your first draft within a year. If you have a tough hide and a philosophical attitude - as well as a damn strong work ethic - you can make writing fiction your career. 'This rare good book on how to set about writing a popular novel is compulsory reading. Fiona McIntosh is top of the pops.' Bryce Courtenay, at his final Masterclass ' McIntosh's claims are bold but never overoptimistic.' The Saturday Age 'McIntosh's examples and the exercises she sets in this interesting insight into gaining a foothold in commercial fiction are an eye-opener. And she is more than qualified to take on the role of mentor.' Gold Coast Bulletin ...Show more

The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs by Rosalind Fergusson

$27.99 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE

A collection of over 6000 proverbs (and their origins).

Quicksand by Henning Mankell

$35.00 AUD

Category: ATLAS & REFERENCE