That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back? by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic defic ...Show more
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good versus evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murder ...Show more
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision an ...Show more
The Korean War : Australia in the Giants' Playground by Cameron Forbes
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world's most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outri ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII and His Italian Ambassador by Catherine Fletcher
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
It's 1527. Gregorio 'The Cavalier' Casali is Henry VIII's man in Rome. An Italian freelance diplomat, he charmed his way into the English service before he was twenty. But now he faces an almighty challenge. Henry wants a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and Casali must persuade Pope Clement VII of his ...Show more
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs by Malcolm Fraser
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Malcolm Fraser is one of the least known, most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's prime ministers. In this book, part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser, at the age of 79, explains himself and his record in government for the first time, speaking from his experience to ...Show more
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David M Eagleman
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move ...Show more
Stalin's Romeo Spy : The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative by Emil Draitser
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A sailor, artist, lawyer, and writer, fluent in many languages, Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the world wars. He was a dashing man whose Modus Operandi was the seduction of women - among them a French embassy employee, the wife of a Bri ...Show more
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have ...Show more
On Ugliness by Umberto Eco (University of Bologna I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. I.B. Tauris & Co. University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna University of Bologna)
$79.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the mold of his acclaimed "History of Beauty," renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco's "On Ugliness" is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appe ...Show more
Enigma by Edelsten Geoffrey
$40.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Business entrepreneur and innovator, celebrity and medico, Professor Geoffrey Edelsten reveals all in this long-awaited biography. It covers his life from a musical entrepreneur with Festival Records, Glenn Shorrock and his company Hit Productions to his medical career as a country doctor, city business ...Show more