Allen Unwin: 2237 books
Speaking Persuasively
The essential guide to giving dynamic presentations and speeches
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
To succeed in business, your message must be heard, understood and remembered. This book, with its combination of practical tips and case studies from the experts, will help you to become a more powerful and persuasive speaker, whether pitching for business or presenting to the Board. As a consultant...
Future Perfect
What next? and other impossible questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Thinking about the future is not a normal human activity.
Since we first came down out of the trees, most of our waking hours have been preoccupied with staying alive - life expectancy was so short, it was hard to seriously plan ahead. The religions we concocted taught us that the future was...
The Bottom Line Diet
How I lost weight, kept it off ... and you can too!
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
In this straightforward but groundbreaking new book, Jessica Irvine documents her own dramatic weight loss and equips you with easy-to-use tools and practical information to help you lose weight.
Based on interviews with leading obesity researchers, Jessica shows you how to work out your own...
Blood Money
Bikies, terrorists and Middle Eastern gangs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power?
There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business...
Doing Critical Social Work
Transformative Practices for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate how to work with tensions and challenges.
Beginning...
Persuading Aristotle
The timeless art of persuasion in business, negotiation and the media
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
'When Peter Thompson, master of the broadcasting art, turns his attention to the nuts and bolts of persuasion, the result is precisely what you d expect: lucid, comprehensive and intensely practical.' Hugh Mackay, Author of The Good Listener
'As soon as you move one step up from the bottom,...
by Michael Reid
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
The art world can be an intimidating one for the experienced buyer let alone the aspiring collector, but with this handbook to the world of collecting, Michael Reid arms buyers with a no-nonsense, informative map to the issues surrounding the buying and selling of art.
No matter what your budget...
Interviewing
A guide for journalists and writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
'The quintessential catch-all of journalism interviewing with tips, techniques and tales covering all interviewing forms in one easy-to-read volume.' - Leo Bowman in Australian Studies in Journalism
Good interviewing is the key to good reporting and great stories. It's a difficult skill to...
Writing Feature Stories
How to research and write articles - from listicles to longform
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Good writing engages as it informs and feature journalism offers writers the opportunity to tell deep, affecting stories that look beyond the immediate mechanics of who, what, where and when and explore the more difficult-and more rewarding- questions: how and why? Whether you're a blogger, a news...
by Angela Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Every once in a while a life-changing book comes along .
Learn how to recognise and overcome your deepest fears, and how to use your passions and talents to live an empowered life.
Find out how to create genuinely good vibes around you, and why giving is essential to creating an abundant...
Secrets of the Zodiac
A comprehensive guide to your talents, challenges, personality and potential
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The zodiac is a life map - all you need do is follow the signs
Life's a whole lot easier when you know where you are going, what you are capable of, and what's likely to trip you up. In Secrets of the Zodiac you'll discover why you are the person you are, and all about your life mission.
Find...
by Shamini Flint
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Marcus is a Maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to...with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about rugby.
by Corinne Fenton, Owen Swan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
One question kept echoing in my mind - if I had to leave, what would I do with Tertius?
This is the true story of two lives brought together by chance. Arthur Cooper, working in intelligence for the British Government in pre-war Hong Kong, rescues a small gibbon and names him Tertius. Together they escape to a safe place - but is it for always?
by Abbas Kazerooni
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
When ten-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life - having just fled conscription into the Iranian army and survived almost three months alone in Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for a visa - little does he know that his troubles have only just begun.
Abbas's cousin packs him off to boarding...