The Visual Encyclopedia by DK
$69.99 AUD
Category: Reference
This landmark piece of reference publishing offers a reliable, visually stunning, and family-friendly alternative to online information sources. Packed with carefully curated content, the pages of this illustrated encyclopedia are designed to be accessible and illuminating to a wide range of readers, an ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Reference
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Funny You Should Ask... (Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves) (PB) by John Lloyd; Sarah Lloyd
$24.99 AUD
Category: Reference
The QI Elves are the clever clogs behind the hit panel show QI. Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show's 'Why Workshop' where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners. Funny You Should Ask features the QI Elves' answers to questions on to ...Show more
The Telegraph Big Book of Cryptic Crosswords 5 by Telegraph Media Group
$14.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: The\Telegraph Puzzle Bks.
Lose yourself in the latest bumper collection of cryptic crosswords from The Telegraph. In its fifth volume in this new rebrand from Hamlyn, this book is the ultimate test of lateral thinking, with plenty of crossswords to provide hours of entertainment. Perfect for cryptic crossword fans.
Music in Our Lives - Rethinking Musical Ability, Development and Identity by Gary E. McPherson; Jane W. Davidson; Robert Faulkner
$128.95 AUD
Category: Reference
Why do some children take up music, while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly diffic ...Show more
Icelandic Men and Me - Sagas of Singing, Self and Everyday Life by Robert Faulkner
$263.00 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: SOAS Studies in Music Ser.
A sparsely populated island in the North Atlantic recently made worldwide headlines in the Global Financial Crisis and for volcanic eruptions that caused unprecedented chaos to international air travel. Large contemporary audiences have formed very different images of Iceland through the vocal music and ...Show more
Compact Speller by H. P. Schoenheimer
$14.95 AUD
Category: Reference
This outstandingly successful speller contains current everyday words.
Collins English Thesaurus Essential Edition: All the Words You Need, Every Day [Second Edition] by Collins Dictionaries
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Collins Essential Editions Ser.
All the words you need, every day: the perfect word reference for daily use in a durable format. With practical usage notes, and a fantastic supplement, this is the ideal thesaurus to take your language use and knowledge further. 300,000 synonyms and antonyms. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the ...Show more
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions by Chloe O. Davis; Paula Akpan (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reference
A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture. With a foreword from Paula Akpan Do you know where "yaaaas quee ...Show more
Help a Thief!: And Other Misadventures in Punctuation by Caroline Taggart
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Category: Reference
The trouble with punctuation - well, one of the troubles, anyway - is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer's judgement. What use is that if you've simply never been taught the difference between a colon and a semicolon, or where those wretched apostrophes go?Caroline Taggart, ...Show more
Chasing Greatness - 26. 2 Ways Teaching Is Like Running a Marathon by Mike Roberts
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Category: Reference