Planet Google is a detailed history of an amazing success story about a pair of academics innocents who started with a few servers which quickly evolved into a hugely wealthy business empire. Google has a dream: to manage the entire world’s information. They want access to every single bit of it they can – from [...]

Each week Bookoffers.com.au brings you the the Top 10 Bestselling Australian Books. Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga’s amazing run continues………….. 1. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer 2. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer 3. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer 4. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer 5. Underbelly: Tale Of Two Cities – John Silvester & Andrew Rule 6. [...]

As seen in the Good Weekend The Sex Diaries: Why Women Go Off Sex and Other Bedroom Battles – Bettina Arndt reports on the desire divide that turns relationships into battlegrounds. How do couples negotiate over sex? This is a tricky business managing the sex supply is a major source of marital tension, the elephant [...]

Planet Cake – Paris Cutler

Posted on February 28th, 2009 by admin in Cooking, Non-Fiction

Ever wanted to turn out a professional looking cake for your childs birthday? Planet Cake by the experts at Planet Cake in Sydney show you how in this great new book out March 2. $39.96 RRP: $45.00 Save 11% $45.00 RRP: $45.00 Save x% $40.50 RRP: $45.00 Save 10% Spend $50 for FREE delivery Spend [...]

Darwin’s Armada – Iain McCalman

Posted on February 28th, 2009 by admin in Biography, Non-Fiction

Darwin’s Armada is for the first time portraying the Darwinian revolution as a collective enterprise forged in Australasia. Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36 Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and [...]

Wild Food by Juleigh Robins is a new and highly publicised new cookbook is out on March 2. Juleigh Robins, entrepreneur and food lover, introduces us to the flavours of the wild with this collection of recipes based on native ingredients sourced from the deserts, forests and bushland of Australia. Discover the distinctive flavours and [...]

Revenge Of Gaia – James Lovelock

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by admin in Non-Fiction

In Revenge Of Gaia James Lovelock argues that human society, through greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of environmental degradation, has brought the natural world to the brink of a crisis. Temperatures will rise, Professor Lovelock warns, reliable supplies of water will be disrupted, life in the oceans will be compromised, food production will decline, [...]

Wildly entertaining  full of laughs, Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children is also an important book on a major, under-reported trend. Leisureville is a first-hand look at the growing phenomenon of gated retirement communities where children are not permitted. Blechman throws himself into these segregated senior utopias with characteristic abandon – he rides golf [...]

The Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel takes a slash at expensive non-organic synthetic brand and advocates a home made approach to make up. The promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle-shampoo that gives your hair more body, lotions that smooth away wrinkles, makeup that makes your skin look flawless, and potions [...]

The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins

Posted on February 27th, 2009 by admin in Non-Fiction, Popular

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the [...]

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