Something To Declare: A Memoir by Sir James Gobbo
$119.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Sir James Gobbo is an exemplar of Australia's multicultural society. In these memoirs, Sir James reflects on his involvement with immigration reform and in the growth of multicultural policy. The book traces his extensive contributions to areas such as artisanship training, the Australian honours system ...Show more
Revolution 2.0 by Wael Ghonim
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
"The power of the people is stronger than the people in power." Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where people can unite, Revolutions can begin. A new type of Revolution -- Revolution 2.0 Wael Ghonim used to be a man unwilling to publicly criticise the Egyptian regime. Like many, he ...Show more
Churchill: The Power of Words by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Throughout his six decades in the public eye, Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words. In his speeches, books and newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches in particular have fascinated generat ...Show more
The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent by Sarah Fraser
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Secondhand. Simon Fraser was one of Scotland most notorious and romantic figures. A double-agent and spy, he became the most famous supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the last nobleman to be executed for treason. For all fans of Ben MacIntyre and C.J. Sansom, a great non-fiction historical adventur ...Show more
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L Friedman
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them--and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations. In "That Used to Be Us," Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential ...Show more
The Biggest Estate on Earth - How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far ...Show more
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel brings to light the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's m ...Show more
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