An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$12.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
''How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperilled world?'' In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reportin ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia by Daniel Mulino
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Economist and Labor MP Daniel Mulino explains how the Australian welfare state was created - and what we need to do to protect and extend it The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens access to healthcare, pensions, disability and unemployment benefi ...Show more
30-Second Psychology by Christian Jarrett
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: 30 Second
A compact yet detailed introduction to the primary theories of psychology and the history of its development.
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Richard Dawkins; Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Christopher Hitchens
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
Sharks: A History of Fear by Callum Denness
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
For as long as people have lived in Australia, the shark has loomed large in our fears. From the Noongar people of Western Australia who stayed out of the water for fear of being taken, to media hysteria about attacks and even sightings today, sharks occupy the dark recesses of our national psyche unlik ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
How to Stay Alive: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Any Situation by Bear Grylls
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The ultimate survival guide from the world's leading survival expert. Nobody knows survival like Bear Grylls. There is a barely a terrain he hasn't conquered or an extreme environment he hasn't experienced. Over the years - from his time in 21 SAS, through to his extraordinary expeditions climbing (and ...Show more
Wake up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn't coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech. 'This is my clarion call, as a liberal myself, for them to stop screaming, shaming and cancelling everyone they disagree with, and start being par ...Show more
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
$44.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A shocking true story of murder, extreme politics and the deep scars left by 'the Troubles' in Ireland of the 1970s and the human consequences. A taut tale of murder, extreme politics, institutionalised violence and the deep scars left by such turmoil. In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patri ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more