Les: 827 books

On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later … at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced....

A mix of Cajun gumbo, a couple tablespoons of kinky sex and a dash of unusual New Orleans settings and you wind up with Les Edgerton’s latest romp fest! Pete Halliday is busted out of baseball for gambling and travels to New Orleans to make his fortune hustling. Five years later, he’s deep...

You may have an amazing program and be well connected to your students, but that doesn’t always guarantee a problem-free ministry. Whether it’s the guy in the back of the room who’s always causing trouble, or the girl in the corner with a look of indifference, disruptive and apathetic students...

Les Murray is Australias most respected expert on Football. In The Worlds Game he draws upon his many years of watching critiquing and reporting on football around the world and shares his greatest moments. An entertaining writer his books are widely read and enjoyed. This is Les Murrays first book...

Successful Debt Collection is presented by Les King, a small-business entrepreneur who also has a background in computer programming, systems design and IT consultancy. He is currently owner and manager of Eurofile IT Recruitment Limited who specialise in the placement of Information Technology...

Choose the parent you’ll be—and you choose the child you’ll raise.When it comes to parenting, who you are is more important than what you do. After all, your child internalizes your traits more than anyone else’s on the planet. And that’s why Les and Leslie Parrott—in a parenting book...

The road to success never takes the path of least resistance and unfortunately often comes at the expense of peace of mind and personal values. With influences from mass media changing the definition of success every day, we must all look deep within to identify what success means to each of us and...

“Lengang’arangetengop. At no time in human history has a book started with that name, I bet.” And so begins the true story of a Calgary man’s life-changing journey to Africa and the start of his life-long friendship with a Samburu warrior with an impossibly long name. On his first day at a...

A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language, past, present, and future. Learning Human contains the poems he considers his best: 137 poems written since 1965, presented here in roughly...

L'alchimie a longtemps été confondue avec l'occultisme, la magie et même la sorcellerie. Au mieux, on la réduisait à un ensemble de techniques artisanales préchimiques ayant pour objet la composition des teintures, la fabrication synthétique des gemmes et des métaux précieux...

L'histoire de la littérature allemande est le reflet de son histoire politique. L'Allemagne, longtemps divisée, longtemps incertaine de son identité, ouverte de toutes parts à l'influence de l'étranger, souvent ravagée par les guerres, a produit une littérature où les …

Le terme Moyen-Orient, qui traduit l'expression anglo-saxonne Middle East, n'apparaît qu'au début du XXe siècle pour désigner cette zone médiane entre Proche et Extrême-Orient, centrée sur le golfe Persique. Si les Américains l'étendent parfois du Maroc au Pakistan, les Européens la définissent plus volontiers comme un arc de...

Dégager des sous-ensembles régionaux au sein de l'Asie soulève deux difficultés majeures. D'une part, les phénomènes comme la démographie, la superficie ou l'économie opèrent à une échelle beaucoup plus vaste que l'Europe, voire que l'Amérique du Nord. La Chine, qui ne constitue qu'une partie de l'Asie, est, par exemple, aussi grande que les États...

Born in 1942, Les Joseph Pickering left school at age 14 years to work on his father’s property, ‘Mittagong Station’ in North West Queensland. No helicopters, quad bikes, satellite phones or huge road trains then.Here are his true tales of swimming stock across flooded river, dodging saltwater...