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
The People Smuggler: The True Story of One Man's Journey by Crespigny Robin De
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
After his father, brother and he were incarcerated and tortured in Saddam's Abu Ghraib, Ali al Jenabi escaped from Iraq first to work with the anti-Saddam resistance in Iran and then to help his family out of the country all together. When Saddam's forces advance towards their refugee camp, Ali helps hi ...Show more
Welcome to Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future, and it Doesn't Work by James Delingpole
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The Hitler File by Patrick Delaforce
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Adolf Hitler may be one of the most infamous men of the twentieth century, and the legacy of his terrible crimes will live for centuries, but what do we really know about him, beyond the scale of his atrocities? Too many biographies are long and daunting, but "The Hitler File" is easily accessible and c ...Show more
1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce
$44.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In 1835 an illegal squatter camp was established on the banks of the Yarra River. In defiance of authorities in London and Sydney, Tasmanian speculators began sending men and sheep across Bass Strait - and so changed the shape of Australian history. Before the founding of Melbourne, British settlement o ...Show more
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve Caesars' - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, ...Show more
Gay Men Don't Get Fat by Simon Doonan
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Simon Doonan knows that when it comes to style, the gays are the chosen people. A second anthropological truth comes to him midway through a turkey burger with no bun, at an otherwise hetero barbecue: Do the straight people have any idea how many calories are in the guacamole? In this hilarious discours ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing by Mark Dapin (ed)
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history has been punctuated by war. We define ourselves through our relationship to the battlefield - mateship, courage under fire, larrikinism - but few of us have been firsthand witnesses ...Show more
University Unlimited The Monash Story by Graeme; Murphy, Kate Davison
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From its beginnings Monash has been a 'university in a hurry'. Born on the suburban fringe of Melbourne, it has reached outwards rather than gazed inwards. Over its five decades it has embraced the challenges of the age of sputnik, become a hotbed of student radicalism, followed by an equally radical tu ...Show more
City of Fortune : How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empir ...Show more
A Burqa and a Hard Place: Three Years in the New Afghanistan by Sally Cooper
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Burqas, car bombs, and Bombay Sapphire