Betrayal The Crisis in the Catholic Church The Findings of the Investigation That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Spotlight by The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
THE BOOK WHICH INSPIRED SPOTLIGHT, 2016 WINNER OF THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR AND THE BEST SCREENPLAY OSCAR This is the true story of how a small group of courageous journalists uncovered child abuse on a vast scale - and held the Catholic Church to account. Betrayal is a ground-breaking work of investigativ ...Show more
The UnspeakableAnd Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum
$31.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. In M ...Show more
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In January 1961, as the cold war escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable ...Show more
Madlands by Rose, Anna
$9.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
An idealistic twenty-something environmentalist. A retired right-wing finance minister. All their lives, they've happily ignored each other. Until now. Anna Rose, environmental crusader since the age of fourteen and co-founder of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is on a mission. This is the story ...Show more
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
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Category: General Non Fiction
The Life You Can Save is the book that Peter Singer has wanted to write for thirty years. It is his argument about how we should respond to hunger and poverty. We live in a unique moment in history where the rich can genuinely help the poor to escape relentless poverty. But this will only happen if the ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Category: General Non Fiction
"The God Delusion" caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. Whil ...Show more
The Shallows : How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
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Category: General Non Fiction
In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understand ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousnes ...Show more
The Checkout Book by Julian Morrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Don't get ripped off, read THE CHECKOUT, from the team behind ABC's top-rating show. ABC TV's THE CHECKOUT has managed to delight and inform consumers while challenging and infuriating big business. Keeping the same mix of irreverence and information as the top-rating ABC show, THE CHECKOUT is a fabulou ...Show more
Future of Leadership: Rise of Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence by Hyacinth, Brigette Tasha
$66.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession by James Brown
$19.98 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Redback Ser.
"A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might ...Show more
Basic Family Therapy by Philip Barker
$82.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The challenge facing the authors of texts that address the multiplicity and complexity of problems that may afflict families can be intimidating. Philip Barker has addressed this challenge head-on in each of the editions of this book. This task has been greatly facilitated by the contributions of the ne ...Show more