Between Legitimacy and Violence - A History of Colombia, 1875-2002 by Marco Palacios; Richard Stoller (Translator)
$75.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: Latin America in Translation Ser.
Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia's "long twentieth century," from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. Marco Palacios, a leading Latin American historian, skillfully blends political, economic, s ...Show more
The Perfect Storm - A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The already legendary case of the passionate hostility of the sea and its ability to command the lives of those who draw their livelihoods from it, written with the vividness and narrative excitement of a novel The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the ...Show more
FREEDOM by Junger Sebastian
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to a hard-won and an uncertain new world, framed in vital and brilliant prose: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life' Phili ...Show more
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade ...Show more
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
$79.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades.Over the course of the last half dozen years, ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
Mental State by Dr Mark Cross
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing both patients and professionals. What he ...Show more
Australia's Most Bizarre Crimes by Peter Coleman
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
True tales of crimes so bizarre you won't believe them. True tales of crimes so bizarre you might not believe them. The mysterious disappearance of thousands of false teeth, international travel via the postal system, doughnut delivery heists, clowns terrorising a neighbourhood, the theft of a three-sto ...Show more
The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli: The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame, the Anzac hero betrayed by his nation Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluabl ...Show more
Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The spectacular fallout from Australia's duplicitous AUKUS deal Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind, from the boule ...Show more
Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia by Sarah Gilbert
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, who they ...Show more