Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS - pioneering founders of modern special forces.
David Stirling is th..
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, ble..
A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Ancient Greek and Roman love stories
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous..
365 Days of Art is an inspiring journal designed to help readers and budding artists nurture their creativity and explore their feelings through the medium of art. Featuring an activity for every day ..
365 Days of Creativity is a thoughtful and inspiring book designed to help you carve out moments of self-expression and unlock your creative potential. Lorna Scobie shows you how to experiment, explor..
Self-care for new mums is a necessity, not a luxury, so make sure you factor in me-time throughout baby's first year with the help and advice in this book
Motherhood is a life-changing, mag..
A 365-day guide to step-by-step sustainability, bursting with actionable ideas and measurable goals across the year
Step up your sustainability and unlock your full eco potential with 365 easy, t..
Sleep is increasingly recognised as essential for a healthy brain and body, but 60% of Australians struggle to get enough. To accompany a new SBS series, and based on groundbreaking sleep science, in ..
You've heard of Danish Hygge and Japan's concept of Ikiagi, but now it's time to travel to Italy and study the concept of "la dolce vita," or "the sweet life"
You've heard of Danish hygge and Jap..
Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard w..
The creators of Shameless and bestselling authors of The Space Between bring you a collection of their most popular advice columns from Ask Shameless.
Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers ha..
Stop procrastinating, start accomplishing, and take charge of your life! This workbook's 130+ writing prompts and exercises will guide your way. In a Franklin-Covey survey of more than 350,000 people ..
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Susie Hodge introduces and explains the central concepts that underpin Western art and design.
From Romanesque to Realism, Pop Art to Pluralism, 50 Art..
The perfect gift for book-loving friends and family, 50 Books to Read If You're a Hopeless Romantic will provide lots of inspiration for fans of love stories to discover lesser known books and revisit..
The perfect gift for book-loving friends and family, 50 Books to Read If You're an Armchair Detective will provide lots of inspiration for fans of cosy crime to discover lesser known books and revisit..
Be prepared for your next escapade with this handy guide to the world of knots. Including all the essential knots you need to know, plus more advanced ties, you'll be all set for whatever you're plann..
Insane Number Hacks For Curious Adults And Daring Students!
In this epic book, you'll uncover 50 unbelievable ways you can manipulate numbers to solve equations, word problems and brain teasers ..
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the fundamental concepts of politics including political theory, ideologies and the machinery of politics.
From revolu..
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inner workings of our universe.
From Schrodinger's cat t..
For the seasoned car collector or the awestruck newcomer, this volume is the consummate sports car anthology. Bringing together 50 of the most exquisite, desirable, and adrenaline-charging sports cars..
52 Assignments: iPhone Photography is a year's worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised..
Take your photography to the next level with 52 Assignments' latest series addition, Portrait Photography. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal a..
'A delightful balance of ideas, inspiration and science' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs
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'We can all learn something from 52 Ways ..
What does winter look like in the far north? According to the cliches: as dark and cold as a refrigerator. And yet it is precisely in these wintertime months that photographer Michael Koenigshofer pic..
Get Ready For the Future of Leadership: See beyond the Triple Bottom Line to 7 different perspectives on ethical responsibility that are all important.
Top 100 Thought Leader in Trust Linda Fis..
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science.
Nobody sits us down and teaches us h..
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making]..
'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite the Depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren't to be a better socie..
A Book Lover's Guide to the Zodiac marries astrology and literature by connecting both writers and fictional characters to the twelve different star signs and their particular traits.
Part of the..
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired b..
Sound shapes our world in invisible but significant ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating jour..
This practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family, and friends understand breast cancer. It guides them in how to provide the best emotional and practical support when helping som..
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from..
A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendar..
In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.
Right now..
Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP)
"A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review
How well do you know the ground beneath your fe..
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect in..
A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.
The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can..
FUN FACTS, STATS, QUOTES & TRIVIA
Volume 1 covers the 1823-1969
This is the essential pick-up, put-down, and pick-up again rugby history for everybody. From players to fans, from newspapers to tel..
FUN FACTS, STATS, QUOTES & TRIVIA
Volume 2 covers the 1970-1999
This is the essential pick-up, put-down, and pick-up again rugby history for everybody. From players to fans, from newspapers to tel..
In 1823 William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it and for the next 200 years we've all wondered why... this book explains why and is a complete reference to the social history of rugby. Th..
The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward t..
For readers of Sapiens and The Vagina Bible, A Brief History of the Female Body is a deep dive into the complexities of the female body through its evolution over millions of years. It answers pressin..
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shore..
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her sur..
'Cozzens is a master storyteller.' The Times
Beginning with the invasion by Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth century, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of the encroachment on Native Americ..
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no ..
Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution to the city's development ..
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing fr..
When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Publi..
New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million..