Exisle Publishing imprint: 140 books
I Just Want to be … ME!
Building resilience in young people
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Today’s children struggle with a range of issues, from depression and anxiety to poor body image and low self-esteem. In fact, research suggests that at any given time around 10 per cent of students will be suffering from a mental health issue that directly impacts on their education and health. These...
by Sharyn Munro
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2010
The truly remarkable story of a unique woman living on a remote mountain wildlife refuge nearing sixty, solitary, solar-powered and almost self-sufficient and the ups and downs of life that led her there. Full of energy, humour, and love for her own and the wider environment, this candid book inspires,...
Two Wings of a Nightingale
Persian soul, Islamic heart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Iran is probably the most misunderstood country in the world, and its people are among the most feared. In this book award-winning travel writer Jill Worrall, with her friend Reza Mirkhalaf, a leading tour manager from Tehran, describe an Iran the world has forgotten about. Few people in the west...
by Gillian Orrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An extended stay in New Zealand determined the content of Gillian Orrells first book. NEW BOOTS IN NEW ZEALAND is a humorous, first-hand account of walking the nine Great Walks of New Zealand, encompassing many additional facts, anecdotes and insights about New Zealands culture, history and peoples....
by Miles Roston
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Many of us feel helpless when faced with the seemingly endless pain and poverty in the world. We are paralysed by the immensity of the problem, thinking, What can I possibly do? Yet sometimes the smallest actions have the biggest consequences. There are people among us who devote themselves to improving...
First Among Equals
Australia’s Prime Ministers from Barton to Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Since Federation in 1901, 29 people have served in the position of Australian prime minister. Some have had the position thrust upon them. Some have schemed their way to the top. Four have served more than once. Three have died in office. Seven have been dumped by their own party. This pocket reference tells each one’s story.
by Maggie Eyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Surveys show that for many people public speaking is the most frightening experience they will ever face. How do you prepare for a speaking engagement? What do you need to know about your body, your voice, the audience, the technology? Maggie Eyre has had many years experience as a media trainer, communications...
Speak Easy
3NZ Division in the South Pacific in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Maggie Eyre has over 30 years’ experience as a media trainer, communications consultant and performer. In Speak Easy, she takes the reader through the complete process, from initial concept to final delivery. Included are chapters on body language, voice, health, warming up, managing your audience,...
Those Were the Days
Australia in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In photographs and words, this beautiful book rekindles memories of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War and the conscription lottery; the Swinging Sixties, with its mini-skirts and changing fashions, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Seekers; the loss of a Prime Minister by drowning; the building...
New Zealand's Worst Disasters
True stories that rocked a nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The 30 stories in this book describe some of the most extraordinary events in New Zealand history. Who knew that a fire killed 39 people at Seacliff Mental Hospital in 1942? That 10 people died in a lahar on White Island in 1914? That a yacht race between Lyttelton and Wellington in 1951 resulted in...
Is It True?
The facts behind the things we have been told
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Is It True?, Max Cryer explores the truth or otherwise of facts and beliefs we may have always been told are true, but which on closer examination may not be. In a wide-ranging book encompassing social history, language, music, politics, the natural world and much more, we discover the truth behind...
by Max Cryer
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Have you ever wondered where terms like Angostura bitters and the green room come from? Or why we call some people lounge lizards and others sugar daddies? These are just a few of the words and phrases that language expert Max Cryer examines in this fact-filled new book. He explains where such colourful...
Losing the Plot in Opera
Myths and secrets of the world`s great operas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The world of opera is a mystery to some and a comedy to others, but it is deadly serious to the people who live and breathe it. Opera conductor Brian Castles-Onion has seen opera from all sides and has decided to step back and reflect on the great operas and on the people who bring them to the stage....
From Venus to Antarctica
The Life of Dumont d`Urville
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
High adventure, drama, discovery, science and map making. This is the first-ever full-length English language biography of D'Urville one of the nineteenth century's great explorers.