In his hand-built rocket made from recycled farmyard junk, Funky Chicken roars off in search of intergalactic funkiness! Will our cheeky chicken find family and friends in outer space or will he discover they might be a little closer to home. This beautifully illustrated rhyming picture book, voted winner in the 2016 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards, will delight readers of all ages!

According to legend, many, many years ago there was a great gathering of animals, right slap bang in the middle of Australia. You see, many of the animals felt they were more special than all the rest. This is the story of how they decided, once and for all, who was the most unique.

On a rescue mission like no other, Funky Chicken returns in his wildest adventure yet! Join our feathered hero with friends, old and new, on their tropical trek through the great Australian wilderness! Following on from the best-selling Funky Chicken: A Bushy Tale of Crocs and Chooks, this delightfully funny tale, told in rich rollicking rhyme, will have the reader in stiches and may provoke the thought that friends can be found in the most unlikely places!

It's Drew's eighth birthday and his best mate Mikey is sleeping over.The boys are having the best day ever!There are new toys to be played with,Yummy birthday food to eat,Birthday games to be played,A hideous monster to be discovered under the bed...Did someone say monster?! Their discovery of something under the bed, causes instant panic among the two boys and when Mum and sister Daisy get in on the act, pandemonium erupts! Chris Collin and Megan Kitchin (author and illustrator of the wild and whacky Funky Chicken - A Bushy Tale of Crocs and Chooks) have teamed up again to bring you this delightfully Australian romp of a story that may teach us all a gentle lesson about preconceived ideas. This book comes with a bonus audio-visual CD with the narrated story (by the author) backed by orchestral music plus the fun and quirky song Doug The Bug, sung by Chris Collin, music and lyrics by Adrian and Barb Hannon, The SongStore

Have you ever wondered, as I tend to do,of things you can do with blue whale poo?Never?Like it or not, or whatever you think,regardless of size or how much it may stink,blue whale poop creates life in the seaWhich makes it important to you and to me.And after this book I am sure you'll agreeWe should thank these great beasts of gargantuan girth.The biggest beast ever to grace the earth!May they always keep pooping for dear mother earth!Join award-winning author Chris Collin (author of the wild and whacky Funky Chicken series) as he teams up with multi-international award-winning illustrator Bruce Potter (illustrator of The Whale Rider), in this particularly poopy story about the stinkiest stuff in the sea!

South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.

One girl's mission to find life in space leads to an out-of-this-world adventure perfect for the astronaut-in-training in your life. Una loves imagining a life in space. Life on Earth is just so-so. But how will she get there? Can she complete her mission to discover life in space? Oh! And did she remember to feed her goldfish? From award-winning creator Philip Bunting, Give Me Some Space is a delightful story that expertly merges nonfiction facts with imaginative play. Readers will love blasting off with Una, and learning along the way!

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Holy Cow is Macdonald’s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life—and her sanity—can survive.