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At the Devonshire estate of Pennacombe House, Sir Clement Carnell ensures his children enjoy themselves as little as possible.

General history of Greece in textbook and tutorial form.

The true story of Judith Fordham's journey through the legal system to become a successful barrister and Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Murdoch University.

From the author of the international bestseller "Year of Wonders" comes a powerful love story set against the catastrophe of the Civil War.

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's e

The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again.

A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jonas has to help him survive in the complex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."

When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but these characters hailed from one period.

The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through

Three friends descend upon an art auction and concoct a plan to "liberate" several paintings from the National Gallery.

The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence.

Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes.

Shreve (Testimony), who worked in Kenya as a journalist early in her career, returns to that country in her slow latest, the story of a photojournalist and her doctor husband, whose temporary reloc

With great wit and irony and with no insight whatsoever, popular ABC radio personality Eoin Cameron recalls the people, fashions, films, in fact everything that made the Sixties such a fabulous dec