2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
The Briefing by Sean Spicer
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Category: General Non Fiction
As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump¿s press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean Spicer found himself on the front line between Trump and the press ¿ regularly jousting with the media and having to explain the President¿s policy decision ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
100 Books That Changed The World by Colin Salter, Scott Christianson
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter brin ...Show more
Knowledge Wars by Peter Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"Climate scientists have warned that we need to change our behaviour in ways that may be inconvenient and threaten the commercial status quo. The result has been a polarising division in society and a sustained attack on their research. In The Knowledge Wars, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty makes a pass ...Show more
Atmospheric: The Burning Story of Climate Change by Carole Wilkinson
$18.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Drum
Talking about the weather used to be small talk, now it's the hottest topic on Earth. We can't survive without Earth's atmosphere, yet most of the time we ignore it. We treat our atmosphere as a rubbish dump for our greenhouse gas emissions. Slowly but surely, what we are doing is changing Earth's clima ...Show more
Reading and Writing Farsi (Persian) - A Beginner's Guide to the Farsi Script and Language by Pegah Vil, Amir Hossein Ahooie
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Workbook for Self-Study Ser.
Learn the basics of the Farsi Language quickly! Reading & Writing Farsi is a self-study guide to the Farsi alphabet for anyone who is just getting started in learning this beautiful language. Author Pegah Vil has helped thousands of English-speaking students to learn Farsi and she developed these ea ...Show more
Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
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Category: General Non Fiction
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. ...Show more
TED: Follow Your Gut: How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More TED by Robert Knight
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Follow Your Gut Today we study the brain with painstaking detail. But we largely ignore what might prove to be the most important part of our body: the trillions of microbes that live inside us, especially in our gut. Increasingly, it looks like the harmless bacteria we each have ...Show more
TED: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: The Mathematics of Love There is no topic that attracts more attention-more energy and time and devotion- than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns. In her book The Mathematics of Love - and TEDxTalk of the ...Show more
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Putnam Robert D.
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of ...Show more