(re-printed in November 2007 with an impressive Names and Subjects index)The author's personal website ,which is devoted entirely to his book, is accesible at:www.theinformationstory.com."A topical review of the book, by SIX OF ONE (the prisoner appreciation society), is given under Preview. Other reviews of the book as well as more background to the book, may be reached at the author's blog:

Bernard Smith (1916–2011) was unquestionably one of Australia's greatest humanist scholars and its finest art historian. His European Vision and the South Pacific, 1768–1850 (1960) was a foundational text of post-colonialism, and in Australian Painting (1962) he set out the definitive history of Australian art to that time. Antipodean Perspective: The Selected Writings of Bernard Smith presents twenty-six art historians, curators, artists and critics, from Austra...

A distinguished Russian concert pianist vanishes while on tour in New Zealand. His estranged daughter seeks to unravel this mysterious disappearance. She will need help. And help is available. But is it human, angelic or something else?

Sophie already has a rabbit and a cat and a dog, but what she'd really love is a pony. Good fortune comes Sophie's way when she's invited to spend her summer holiday in Scotland with Great Aunt Al.

Small but very determined Sophie wants to be a lady farmer when she grows up. Down in the potting shed, she has made a start and keeps flocks of free-range wood lice and herds of snails. Sophie's fond of most creatures but there's one she cannot stand: her prissy new neighbour Dawn!

America is the only major economy in world history that began as a business venture. The first permanent English colony was chartered by a joint stock company whose investors expected a return on capital. Four centuries later, those descendants have become the largest economy the world has ever known. This book is the story of that 400-year arc, told through the ambitions of the people who built it and the businesses they built to contain their ambition. It is a study of how ambition actua...

You have probably been asking the wrong question about your home. The question most organizing books hand you is about how much you own. The German answer is built on a different question, which is not how much you own, and it is how the household runs from the moment you wake until the moment you sleep. The German word for that running is Ordnung, and the word means order, discipline, rule, arrangement, organization, and system all at once. This book turns that single cultural instinct in...

'Sleigh bells ring! Are you listening?' Based on the much-loved song Winter Wonderland, this gorgeous picture book takes you on an enchanting journey through a glistening winter landscape. With beautiful wildlife to spot on every page, it is the perfect gift for the most wonderful time of the year. 'Winter Wonderland is one of my favourite songs and one thats played over and over again in our house throughout the winter months. Hearing it conjures up happy memories of winter walks in the w...

If you have ever decluttered your home only to find it feels cold and empty, you know the problem this book exists to solve. The modern organizing industry measures success by subtraction, often removing the very warmth that makes a house a home. The Norwegian concept of koselig offers a different path. It is the experience of a place that holds you warmly rather than merely displays you.This book turns every decluttering decision into a question about warmth instead of a question ...

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadl...

A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, EXCALIBUR begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The Saxons, sensing the disunity of the Britons, seize the chance to destroy Arthur. The climax of the war comes with the legendary triumph at Mount Badon, and Arthur`s great victory.A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, EXCALIBUR begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The...

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.