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Amazon.com today announced that the Kindle will become available in Australia from October 19 2009. Australian book lovers will no doubt have the new international Kindle on the top of their Christmas lists this year. BookOffers.com.au predicts that the arrival of the Kindle in Australia will be a game changer for the Australian book industry. [...]
Learn MoreIn the The Virginia Monologues: Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old is Great its author, Virginia Ironside explains that unlimited free drugs, boring for Britain, fun funerals, grandchildren and sex – or, even better, no sex – make the sixties the best – and funniest – time of your life…”
When she started to clock up the years in earnest, everyone tried not to mention it. But now Virginia Ironside is actually sixty-five she can’t see what all the fuss was about. It’s great to be old. Growing ancient is not a loss but a gain. You’re more confident, and if your memory’s going, at least you forget the bad times, like all those ghastly men you slept with in the other sixties. And isn’t now the time to take lots of drugs, and not just the ones prescribed by the doctor (which are, now you’re old, completely free).
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There’s nothing more fun than comparing your various ailments with other oldies (‘I take so many fish oils I’m thinking of joining an aquarium’), curtain-twitching, complaining or (Virginia’s preference) just mooching about. From Grandchildren (‘The reward for not killing your children’), and Being a Bore (‘You’re in your anecdotage, so nobody can complain’) to Sex (‘I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough sex to last me a lifetime’), Virginia Ironside tackles all the issues that face today’s elegant and distinguished oldies with optimism and enthusiasm – and makes you want to cheer.
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David Dabner and Sheena Calvert have updated their professional advice in the Graphic Design School: A Foundation Course for Graphic Designers Working in Print, Moving Image and Digital Media. It improves upon previous editions by providing a more fully developed introduction to the study of graphic design, firmly locating it within the professional activities it embraces.
The book is organized into two main sections, principles and practice. The first section deals with the fundamentals of design, such as composition, hierarchy, layout, typography, grid structure, colour and so on. The second section puts these basics into practice, and gives information about studio techniques and production issues relevant to a number of different graphic design disciplines. The last part of the second section provides an overview of some of the different career choices open to students entering the graphic design field.
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Anthony Gunn shares his insight into Raising Confident Happy Children. A psychologist, author and father of a primary schooler he knows exactly how difficult it can be to raise children with a sense of strength and courage.
What do you do when your son refuses to go to bed because of the monster in the cupboard? Or when your daughter panics before a school play? Or when the death of the family pet prompts anxiety that you’re about to drop off the mortal coil? How can we possibly equip our children with all that they need to grow up confident, resilient and brave?
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In Raising Confident Happy Children, he offers forty helpful approaches, explaining common fears and setbacks and how to combat them. From fear of spiders to conversation nerves, the book covers a whole range of issues that feed into how confident your child is in the world. Anthony also explains how parents can manage themselves so that they can support – but not smother – their children and allay myriad childhood fears, no matter how trivial.
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The New Me: Eat Smart, Move More, Think Thin – Adro Sarnelli
The New Me: Eat Smart, Move More, Think Thin by the Biggest Loser Adro Sarnelli is an accessible and practical health book that explains and inspires Adro’s achievable principals of weight loss.
Adro Sarnelli inspired millions of overweight Australians when he became the first winner of The Biggest Loser. He lost over 60 kilograms in four months, sparking scepticism about whether he would be able to keep it off post the show. Well, three years on, not only has he kept the weight off, he lives a fit and fabulous life and now helps others to take control of their weight and their life, through the establishment of his own personal development and weight loss centre in Victoria. This personal and inspiring book is based on Adro’s own weight loss journey before, during and after his Biggest Loser experience; and the program he now champions at his weight loss retreat.
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Hourglass – Claudia Gray
Astonishing, suspenseful, and creative the Hourglass from author Claudia Grey, will keep your teens guessing with its inevitable twists and turns and cliff hanger ending.
Bianca has found refuge again with the Black Cross, and she and Lucas work desperately to keep her secret. In this company, being a vampire is a death sentence, and the two of them live and train alongside the hunters without anyone noticing her increasing need for blood. Even though she’s with the boy she loves more than anyone else in the world, Bianca can’t help worrying about the family and friends she left behind. Caught between three feuding worlds, it’s starting to feel as though she’ll never be entirely at peace again. When another betrayal puts the lovers in mortal danger once more, they realize that all they truly have is one another. But with the secret of Bianca’s birth taking hold, not even Lucas can help her win her toughest fight.
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Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them by internationally renowned entrepreneur and expert on human achievement, Simon Reynolds, offers strategies for beating failure habits such as: unclear purpose; destructive thinking; low productivity; weak energy; not asking the right questions; poor presentation skills; stress; lack of persistence; money obsession.
There are thousands of books on success. This is a book on failure. Mastering failure is a vital step in achieving your aims, hopes and dreams. Failure is the ambitious person’s constant companion. It can dog you for months, years or even decades before you finally achieve your goal. Simon Reynolds explores the main causes of failure and reveals solutions for overcoming them.
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Master just one of the principles in this book and you can increase your wealth, success, contentment and happiness. Master all of them and your life will rocket to a totally new level.
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Following the discovery of the New World through Vasco da Gama’s voyage in 1499 anyone could SPICE IT as allspice, bell and chili peppers, vanilla, and, the most luscious of all luxuries, chocolate, were added to the growing list.
The earliest evidence of the use of spice by humans was around 50,000 B.C and they were among the most luxurious products available in Europe for centuries via the ancient trade routes. This new release of a techniques-based series packed with attractive, easy recipes for the home cook features colourful, contemporary covers. Step-by-step photography and detailed information on cooking techniques, utensils and ingredients make this series a kitchen library must-have.
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This title offers easy-to-achieve recipes for the busy home cook. It provides techniques such as stir-frying, steaming and grilling clearly explained in words and pictures. It includes information on key ingredients and how to use them.
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House of Hits chronicles the journey from a small family business to an Australian music stalwart written by one of its own – Jane Albert
Few, if any, of AC/DC’s fans would have any idea that the band’s unmistakeable brand of raucous, hardcore rock was delivered to the world via a small Australian family music publishing business, J. Albert & Son. In fact, the lives of most Australians have been touched in some way by the Alberts, through sheet music, Boomerang Songsters, any number of radio stations owned by Alberts or bands and artists like the Easybeats, John Paul Young, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Angels, Rose Tattoo and AC/DC.
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Who is behind this business that has been quietly shaping and influencing Australia’s musical landscape, culture, entertainment and media for most of its existence? Alberts had its beginnings as an unassuming watch and clock repair shop in suburban Sydney in 1885. Today it is one of Australia’s oldest family-owned and run businesses, which is now in its fifth generation of ownership. Yet few people have heard of the company, and know nothing of the family that still runs it, because the family has never before agreed to have its story told. Until now.
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The Eternal Son is an honest and insightful story that touches us all, written by one of Brazil’s foremost award winning novelists, Cristovao Tezza beautifully translated by Alison Entrekin. It is world literature at its finest, a story of a life-changing encounter brought about the birth of a disabled child.
In this multi-award-winning autobiographical novel, Tezza draws his readers into the mind of a young father whose son, Felipe, is born with Down syndrome. From the initial shock of diagnosis, and through his growing understanding of the world of hospitals and therapies, Tezza threads the story of his son’s life with his own.
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Felipe, who lives in an eternal present, becomes a remarkable young man; for Tezza, however, the story is a settling of accounts with himself and his own limitations and, ultimately, a coming to terms with the sublime ironies and arbitrariness of life. He struggles with the phantom of shame, as if his son’s condition were an indication of his own worth, and yearns for a ‘normal’ world that is always out of reach.
Reading this compelling book is like stumbling through a trap door into the writer’s mind, where nothing is censored, and everything is constantly examined and reinterpreted. What emerges is a hard-won philosophy of everyday life.
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Check out the latest bestsellers and discover some interesting new releases from Australia and around the world. If the one you want isn’t in the top ten, or on our site be sure to write to Carolyn – cm@bookoffers.com.au and ask her to source it for you at the very best price available.
Each week we update the Top Ten list so, go with the flow….here are this week’s Top 10 Bestselling Australian Books.
1. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Special Ed – Stieg Larsson
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
3. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest – Stieg Larsson
5. Dear John – Nicholas Sparks
6. Tuscan Rose – Belinda Alexandra
7. Crunch Time Cookbook: 100 Knockout Recipes for Rapid Weight Loss – Michelle Bridges
8. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
9. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
10. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search For Everything – Elizabeth Gilbert
