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Bestselling Non Fiction |  | Please Explain by Karl Kruszelnicki
'What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking ...avoid opinion ...facts are your single clue. Get the facts!' -- Time Enough for Love Robert Heinlein Does eating celery make you lighter? Do you have to be dying to have a near-death experience? Is a yawn a silent natural scream for air; and if a little oxygen is good for you is more oxygen better? Can the humble spud kill? Did Galileo drop his balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Did a NASA computer really prove a miracle in the Bible actually happened? Is there any substance harder than diamond and do diamonds really last forever? And exactly how many Eskimo words for 'snow' are there? Wherever he goes people always ask Dr Karl to explain stuff and in this his 26th book (26 is the only number directly between a square and a cube) he explains more myths and curly questions. Visit Dr Karl at www.drkarl.com
Online Price: $27.99
|  | The Daring Book for Girls by Miriam B. Peskowitz
"The Daring Book for Girls" is the manual for everything that girls need to know--and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers--although that's included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure. Online Price: $45.00
|  | Vietnam by Paul Ham
'War takes a blender to standards and values ...Men come back and spend the rest of their lives trying to find out who they are ...' -- Harry Whiteside who served with the SAS and the Royal Australian Regiment in Vietnam 'Surely God weeps ' an Australian soldier wrote in despair of the conflict in Vietnam. But no God intervened to shorten the years of carnage and devastation in this most controversial of wars. Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers.Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very different from those of the Americans. Guided by their commanders' experience of jungle combat Australian troops operated with stealth deception and restraint in pursuing a 'better war'. Drawing on hundreds of accounts by soldiers politicians aid workers entertainers and the Vietnamese people Paul Ham reconstructs for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign.
From the commitment to engage through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti-war movement to the tactics and horror of the battlefi eld Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war -- which sealed the fate of 50 000 Australian servicemen and women. More than 500 soldiers were killed and thousands wounded. Those who made it home returned to a hostile and ignorant country and a reception that scarred them forever. This is their story. Paul Ham's Vietnam: The Australian War was awarded the Australian History Prize at the 2008 NSW Premier's Awards. The judges praised Ham for his comprehensive approach to Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and his ability to communicate with both specialist and general readers. They said: 'A significant number of books have appeared over the past decade or so focusing on Australia's involvement in World War I World War II the
Online Price: $55.00
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