'Insightful ... inspiring, uplifting, motivating and really funny!' SARAH MURDOCH

Everybody knows high school can be tough, especially when:

* your best friend behaves more like your worst enemy
* the person you have a crush on fails to notice you exist
* even the C-grade netball team thinks you have the defending skills of a stapler.

So how do you get through it?

Bestselling author Rebecca Sparrow, with a little help from Ruby Rose, Wil Anderson (READ MORE...)

Listen. The night is dark
though it's amazing how much light
pretends otherwise - the stars
could be hidden by clouds but this
street and advertisement message
hoodwinks us into believing
our fate is otherwise.
We are alone.

Parts of Us holds in balance a quiet maturity with a vital energy. Ranging from sonnet sequences to long lyrical meditations, dramatic monologues to more confessional works, these poems are imbued with verve, curiosity and elegant inquiry. The collection is marked by (READ MORE...)

New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series
Series editor Professor Kevin P Clements

Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, media set the agenda for public debate. In Reporting Conflict, Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung challenge reporters to tell the real story of conflicts around the world.

The dominant kind of conflict reporting is what Lynch and Galtung call war journalism: conflicts are seen as good versus evil, and the score is (READ MORE...)

New Approaches to Peace and Conflict series
Series editor Professor Kevin P Clements

How do people heal and reconcile after violent experiences that defy words? American academic John Paul Lederach, a peacebuilding pioneer, has teamed up with his daughter, Angela Jill Lederach, to address social healing and reconciliation through metaphors, music and unforgettable
stories of suffering and hope. The Lederachs challenge the traditional notion that healing and reconciliation are best understood as linear processes, instead using approaches that (READ MORE...)

In A Prescription for Change: The Terry White Story, veteran journalist Tony Koch colourfully charts the drive, integrity and family support that have guided White through a fascinating life in business and politics.

Growing up in a poor family, Terry White showed ambition from a young age, enrolling himself in a private school to receive a better education.
The young pharmacy graduate endured 73 interviews before he found a pharmacist who would waive the apprenticeship fee - and White has (READ MORE...)