Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
Wed by the Wayside by Alana Valentine
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The fascinating true story of Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney a quiet revolution in Australian history, from a side street of the red-light district. Alana Valentine's mother, Janice, was married by the charismatic and controversial Methodist minister Ted Noffs at the Wayside Chapel in 1969. Not l ...Show more
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Based on her own sweeping research, an award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that we are, and always have been, a truly global culture. In How the World Ma ...Show more
The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century by Robin Niblett
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China, and how looking to history will help us to navigate it, from former Director of Chatham House
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in Ap ...Show more
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women they Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and--above all else--integrity. But this carefully ...Show more
House Of Beckham by Bower, Tom
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"As one of the world’s most famous and influential couples the Beckhams have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple, David and Victoria have built a billion-dollar global empire through their carefully curated public image. Fans have been captivated for decades now by the glamorous world they ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania by Cassandra Pybus
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus, has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony w ...Show more
The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism From the Time of Christ to Kanye West (Second Edition, Revised and Supplemented) by Alex Ryvchin
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author's most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time. The 7 Deadly Myths traces antisemitism from its earliest origins to the present day and uncovers the dangerous conspiracy theories that have cor ...Show more
The Black Box - Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African-American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions." -- Isabel Wilkerson, author of The W ...Show more