Books
Morning Breaks In The Elevator
Lemn Sissay
Format: Paperback
'Sissay writes of love, hate, politics and everyday trivia with an accessible, compelling and rather unusual honesty. A rough diamond of a book.' - The Big Issue
Destructive Emotions
Daniel Goleman & His Holiness the Dalai
By the author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence
Spook's Shack
Wendy Orr, illustrated by Kerry Millard
Format: Paperback
Finn discovers Jack Henry, a ghost, and his ghost-dog Nipper, in an old bush shack. They team up to outwit Boris Banks, who has plans for a gold mine that would destroy the bushland and leave the wild animals homeless. Illustrated junior novel.
The Valuation of Businesses, Shares and Other Equity
Wayne Lonergan
Format: Paperback
The definitive manual in Australia for the valuation of businesses, shares and other equity as required by managers, investors and accountants.
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
Martin Stuart-Fox
Format: Paperback
New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from ancient times to the present day.
Co-Opetition
Barry J Nalebuff and Adam M Brandenburger
Format: Paperback
Co-opetition offers a new way of thinking that combines competition and cooperation. It is the first book to adapt game theory to the needs of CEOs, managers and entrepreneurs.
Granta 80: The Group
Ian Jack (ed.)
Format: Paperback
Everybody has been a reluctant or willing member of one: the family, the school, the football side, the quiz team, the once-faithful friends who met in a bar every Friday at five. Group photographs are their souvenir - frozen moments of a previous way of living, and of liking or disliking the people who shared it.
Hard Heads, Soft Hearts
Edited by Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly
Format: Paperback
A bold contemporary statement for an economic and social reform agenda, Hard Heads, Soft Hearts draws on contributions from a wide range of Australia's leading thinkers across academia, politics, the Public Service, business, unions and community groups. Edited by Paul Kelly, one of Australia's leading political and economic commentators, and Peter Dawkins, head of the Melbourne Institute
Manhattan to Baghdad
Paul McGeough
Format: Paperback
From the trenches in Afghanistan to the Occupied Territories, Israel to Baghdad and beyond, this is a poignant account from one of Australia's most respected foreign correspondents, of the international fallout from September 11 and informative meditation on what our future holds.
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