Allen Unwin: 2237 books
Behind the Tape
Gripping, real-life stories from New Zealand's top police crisis negotiator
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
New Zealand's top police crisis negotiator reveals the everyday drama of being a cop: the lives saved, the lives lost, and the extreme pressure to perform in tough and confronting circumstances.
Lance Burdett was in the police force for 22 years, in a variety of high-level roles: head of the...
King of Thieves
The adventures of Arthur Delaney and The Kangaroo Gang
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Vast shoplifting ring operating in Britain
'A highly organised gang of Australian shoplifters is at work in Britain stealing goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. New members of the gang are flown from Australia whenever the organisers want replacements.'
The Guardian,...
Media Relations
Issues and strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Public relations and the media are in a time of major change. The rise of social media, altered media platforms, evolving legislative environments and new models of communication have altered not only the working environments of public relations and the news and entertainment media, but also many...
by Andrew Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
PRACTICAL TIPS FOR EXCEEDING YOUR CUSTOMERS' EXPECTATIONS
Modern consumers are more demanding and more informed than ever before. They are aware that they have choices and that there is considerable competition for their business. Costs can only go so low, so there is a limit to reducing prices...
Kill Your Mortgage & Sort Your Retirement
The go-to guide for getting ahead
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
'We will now pay off our mortgage in five years rather than 30 years' Kirsten & Mike Mason, Fair Go
'It's a relief to be working with Hannah to sort our retirement' Mark Leishman
Hannah McQueen shares her expertise so you can take control of your finances, save hundreds of thousands...
by Jenny Ackland
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like.This is a boy in the skin of a man.I know the boy is innocent, that it's his family soul which is guilty.
An old woman sits waiting in a village that...
The Little Book of Australia
A snapshot of who we are
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
We are what we eat, watch, buy, read, love, play.
It's been a long step in a short time from meat pies, football, kangaroos and Holden cars to iPods, lattes, iPods, climate change and MasterChef.
David Dale chronicles how it happened in this definitive reference book about the carefree...
by Dominic Knight
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Patriotically basted in the goon trough of Australian values, this book is as fundamentally Strayan as bowling your final over underarm, not asking awkward questions about what's in your meat pie, and naming a swimming pool after Harold Holt.
Conveniently omitting all areas not relating to...
Martin Sharp
His life and times
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
'Martin wore tight pants that were striped red, white and blue, like a Union Jack, and an embroidered Afghan vest. In front of his face he carried, like a lollipop, a smile on a stick. As he went, he bowed to passers-by. Even on King's Road, he stood out.'
Martin Sharp's art was as singular...
To Begin To Know
Walking in the shadows of my father
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Wasn't that the whole point of being alive? . To ask the right questions, not just as a journalist but as a human being? To not just examine other people's dark, cold, self-hating, contradictory, disconnected places, but to examine one's own, given that this was possibly the most uncomfortable inquiry...
Affluenza
When too much is never enough
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Our houses are bigger than ever, but our families are smaller. Our kids go to the best schools we can afford, but we hardly see them. We've got more money to spend, yet we're further in debt than ever before. What is going on?
The Western world is in the grip of a consumption binge that is...
The Australian Leadership Paradox
What it takes to lead in the lucky country
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Australians bemoan the quality of our leaders. We blame those in power for not showing leadership, only to turn on them when they start tackling the hard issues they are expected to fix. No wonder, then, that even the most passionate and talented among us hesitate to take up this important role.
The...
Leadership Beyond Good Intentions
What it takes to really make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
'Aigner connects the inner journey of leadership with the external realities in a readable, useful, practical guide for anyone leading change' - Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky, co-authors, Leadership on the Line and co-founders, Cambridge Leadership Associates
'World-leading thinking on leadership'...
The World According to Y
Inside the new adult generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
A fresh and intelligent voice Rebecca Huntley has lifted the veil on the rising generation of young Australians; she brings wit and insight to her assessment of what makes them tick.' Hugh Mackay, social commentator
Here is a much needed literary work that both exposes the foibles of and interprets...