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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousand of rapes - Nanjing 1937 - is a tender and humorous story of an impossible love and a lively detailed historical portrait of a people on the verge of destruction.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.At a séance in a Cambridge backstreet, Dr Nathanial Gye is commissioned by a dead man to find his killer. Naturally, he dismisses the incident from his mind as a clumsy fraud by a fake medium. It is only when Nathaniel's wife, Kathryn, disappears during a trip to Italy - an eventuality also foretold by the unquiet spirit - that he is forced to look for connections between her predicament and the violent death of a security guard she never knew. The urgent search for answers takes Nathaniel far from his quiet university existence and into a labyrinth of hazardous twists and turns involving a stolen Renaissance painting and the love life of Robert and Elizabeth Browning.The intricate puzzles of this case plunge Nathaniel even deeper into the web of deception. Just how can a work of art disappear from a locked van? Can the dead speak to the living? When is a fake not a fake?… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.For anyone who's ever avoided the mirror, skipped swimming or got stuck in a dress in a changing room...Almost every woman worries about her weight. For Anne H. Putnam, it became unavoidable - by the age of seventeen she weighed over twenty stone and had tried everything, from dieting to fat camp to wearing big t-shirts. When she decided to have weight-loss surgery, she thought her life would change. But now, nine years later and ten sizes smaller, she has discovered that changing your body doesn't automatically change how you feel about it.Navel Gazing is a funny, passionate and no-holds-barred memoir of one woman's quest to accept her own body - to feel normal. It will make you laugh, cry, cringe - and wonder why it's so hard for women to feel happy with the way they look.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'My point is this: who needs enemies when you have a family?'Claire Delaney, a fiery fifteen-year-old, and her mother, Jackie, are both out of control. They've had a lot to deal with after the tragic death of Claire's father - and they're driving each other crazy.When Jackie, a forty-something comedian, announces she's going to marry a younger man she's only just met, Claire is outraged. In retaliation she apprentices herself to a volatile Italian chef, who teaches her the secrets of his kitchen. In time, both Jackie and Claire discover that life - like the best recipes - is at once mysterious and mysteriously simple.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Childrens book of Ned Kelly's life.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sophie Daniels quit the WAAF at the end of World War II with nowhere to go. Moving on when she has to, she wanders around the country searching for a place where she can settle, living in bedsits and small guest houses until she finds an abandoned barn, where she stays for a summer.Eventually, she finds Badgers Brook, where she meets nine-year-old Bertie, neglected and running wild, and befriends him. The neighbours warm to her, the place is welcoming and she knows she has found her home. Then she investigates Bertie's seemingly uncaring family, and discovers an old, forgotten scandal.Through those connections she becomes friendly with Ryan Treweather, who, in turn, helps search for Sophie's remaining relatives. But, as Sophie and Ryan become closer, will Bertie find his rightful place in the family...?

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the twenty-first century public health is under considerable threat. Environmental deterioration, terrorism and war, growing economic inequalities, declining social capital, neo-liberal economic policies, and rapid economic globalisation all pose threats to health. Public health is concerned with reducing these threats and finding healthy solutions to them. In the past public health was dominated by medical models of practice, however, now it is increasingly multi-disciplinary and focuses on the social, economic, and environmental bases of health. The comprehensive overview of contemporary public health practice in The New Public Health discusses the rapid changes that have affected public health in the early years of the new century.This second edition includes two new chapters; one on globalisation, which sets the new public health in a global context, and another dedicated to a… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Now in its third edition, The New Public Health provides a clear vision of what a healthy equitable and sustainable global society would look like and what changes need to be implemented to achieve this vision. It integrates knowledge and methodologies from across the social sciences, environmental sciences and humanities; from epidemiology and demography, sociology and social work, to urban planning and political science.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The sun shows up here first for a reason. Come for bracing light or caverns underground, glacial valleys or black volcanic sand. Tour every landscape on earth, all rolled into one country. Dig for pipis on the beach, or sample oysters on a platter. Savour solitude with a view, or city culture. Things are never just black and white in New Zealand

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found..."Now remebered as the author of the world's most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father - until the night he hears Polly Catlett's enchanting voice, caroling. He's immediately smitten and determined to win her affection.An intense connection quickly forms between the two, but John's reckless spirit and disregard for the Christian life are concerns for the responsible, devout Polly. When an ill-fated stop at a tavern leaves John imprisoned and bound, Polly must choose to either stand by his side or walk out of his life forever. Will she forfeit her future for the man she loves?Step back through the pages of… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A Long-Buried SecretLuke Hayward, disgraced Newton scholar, makes a discovery in a dusty attic that has consequences beyond his understanding: a ciphered clue left three centuries ago by a genius who believed he was one of God's chosen prophets.But Luke isn't the only one to have cracked the code.A Global ConspiracyAvram Kohen - a priest with powerful allies - is on a fundamentalist mission to redraw the map of the religious world in the blood of his enemies.Both Luke and Avram will discover that something is buried beneath London - something that could be used to spark a fire that will burn the world...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.At the start of it all, Jonathon Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Rose's early life had been full of tragedy, so that she depends on her husband, Michael, to provide the love and stability that her own family lacks. All Rose asks of Michael is complete fidelity, and when she has cause to doubt him she devises a terrible revenge.Michael has planned an anniversary trip to Venice, but as they experience the sights of this most romantic of cities, Rose is racked with a secret jealousy. By the time they return, Michael will have become seriously ill - although not so ill that he cannot recognise the fact that something truly dreadful has happened to him.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The echoes caused by Tamara's disappearance were too loud, too close to home. Nameless had been there and never wanted to go back.It is a race against time for Nameless, but the clock began ticking before he heard the starter's gun.Tamara, the agency's new partner, would give Nameless a chance to step back and enjoy life, to spend with his wife and daughter. At least that was the plan. Before the call informing Nameless that Russ Dancer - a name from the past and not a pleasant memory - was dying and needed to speak to him. Before Tamara disappeared.Nameless had disappeared for a while some time back and the incident left him a changed man, now what could happen made the search for his partner urgent.The visit to Dancer was going to open a door into another and more personal hell...one filled with nightcrawlers beyond imagining.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sallyanne Atkinson AO has been a leader in political and business life for over four decades. A trailblazer for working mothers, she built a high-profile national career while raising five children.No Job for a Woman takes us from Sallyanne's wartime childhood in Sri Lanka to her first jobs as a journalist and TV personality. Driven to make a difference in her community, she entered local politics and went on to become the first female Lord Mayor of Brisbane.For the first time, Sallyanne shares the challenges and triumphs of a life devoted to public service in Australia and abroad, including her role in three Olympic bids. Told with warmth and humour, this inspiring story reveals how one women defied the expectations of a generation.

In good condition - dust jacket good slight markings - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is the 'Weird Mob' of Samoa. It is as irresistibly funny and appealing as the same author's Nino Culotta stories (They're a Weird Mob and Cop This Lot) - the most talked-about best-sellers Australia has ever seen.Ioane Papatiso (it means John the Baptist, and you say the first name 'Yo-ah-nay') is a small Samoan who is always in big trouble. He never starts any trouble, but whenever there is a free-for-all in his village, or things go wrong in a big way, you can always say that if he had not been present the trouble would not have happened.Ioane has a big brain, and he means well. It is strange that anyone so well-meaning should have to go to the police station so often. But then it is not everyone who wanders out of hospital still wearing hospital pyjamas; and it is not everyone whose home-brew lays out his guests all over the plantation. Ioane is not popular with the… Read More

Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - dust jacket has slight wearing - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."This exciting fast-moving age of ours has produced many men, and women, as articulate as they are distinguished. In reading their autobiographies I often wondered what kind of a story would emerge if one enquired into the life of an ordinary member of an extraordinary organisation, such as Special Operations Executive.""During the last war many of Britain's little known intelligence agents were essentially cosmopolitans, men who felt at home in many countries and belonged to none. What were the circumstances that induced such international-minded people to take part in a war, and to serve one side rather than the other?""In my search for an answer to this question I met Jan Felix, who had served with Special Operations Executive. I found in him a man who had refused to become a mere pawn in the power-game of politicans, and who… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Noodles - everybody's favourite food!A bowl of noodles is the ultimate convenience food. Noodles are inexpensive, easy to cook, remarkably versatile - and they're healthy too.For thousands of years a staple of nearly every Asian culture, they are now an essential ingredient in most western kitchens.Noodle Bible is packed with recipes - fragrant broths, hearty hawker-style dishes, one-pot meals and cool favourites such as chilled soba noodles. As well, there are tips on cooking and storying noodles, preparing basic stocks and sauces, and ideas for elegant concoctions such as noodle baskets for special occasions.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.One ordinary girl in search of an extraordinary life.Seventeen-year-old Catherine 'Cat' Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat's wealthy neighbours, the Allens, ask her to accompany them to the Edinburgh Festival, she is sure adventure beckons.Edinburgh initially offers no such thrills, until a Highland Dance class brings Cat a new acquaintance. Henry Tilney, a dark-eyed gentleman whose family home, Northanger Abbey, sounds perfectly thrilling. And then an introduction to Bella Thorpe, who shares her passion for supernatural novels, provides Cat with a new friend. But with Bella comes her obnoxious brother John who is intent on thwarting Cat's growing fondness for Henry.Happily, rescue is at hand when she receives an invitation to stay at Northanger. Cat's imagination runs riot: an… Read More