Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
Category: Reference
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions by Jason Travis Ott
Category: Reference
Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confo ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
Category: Reference
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
Category: Reference
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
Category: Reference
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
Category: Reference
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
London City Map Lonely Planet by Lonely Planet
Category: Reference | Series: Map Ser.
Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet's London City Map is your conveniently sized passport to travelling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary ...Show more
Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary by Lonely Planet
Category: Reference | Series: Phrasebook Ser.
Lonely Planet's Japanese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Japanese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Learn your sushi from your sake, enjoy an elaborate tea ceremony and navigate elaborate transit maps; all ...Show more
Pearson Biology 11 New South Wales Skills and Assessment Book and Student Book with Reader+ by Sue Siwinski; Zoe Armstrong; Wayne Deeker; Anna Madden; Heather Maginn; Katherine McMahon; Kate Naughton; Reuben Bolt; Yvonne Sanders
Category: Reference
Introducing the Pearson Biology 11 for New South Wales Student Book. Fully aligned to the Stage 6 Senior Science Syllabuses. Reader +, the next generation eBook gives you access to Student Book content as well as bonus multimedia assets. It's built to work both online and offline making content easily ...Show more
The World According To Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
Category: Reference
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbre ...Show more