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
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Societies from ancient Greece to revolutionary France have experimented with all kinds of money, from seashells to tobacco, before finally settling on the paper version we have come to know so well. What exactly is money? This title shows how the financial crisis has very deep roots indeed - in the very ...Show more
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by President Bill Clinton
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters--presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future business. ...Show more
This Way to Spaceship by Rhys Darby
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
You've probably heard the rumours about the world ending in 2012 right? Did you know that the smart and powerful people are secretly building three giant spaceships in which to make a getaway but it's only for them? And did you also know that to get on one of those spaceships and escape you've got to be ...Show more
The Epigenetics Revolution : How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance by Nessa Carey
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Just over a decade since Matt Ridley's seminal Genome, Nessa Carey presents a hugely compelling explanation of the very latest from the frontline of modern biology. How is it that, despite each cell in your body carrying exactly the same DNA, you don't have teeth growing out of your eyeballs or toenails ...Show more
Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
People often forget that I was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier before being Mrs. Kennedy or Mrs. Onassis. Defined in the public eye by her two high-profile marriages, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis found herself facing a personal crossroads on the eve of 1975, a year of incredible growth and renaissance for her. Alt ...Show more
The Great War by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The Great War is Les Carlyon's extraordinary account of the Anzacs on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918. It combines a brilliant overview of this immense conflict with telling detail, stories, letters and diaries that breathe life into those terrible battles of 90 years ago. In The Great War, Carlyon ...Show more
The Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart Cummings by Les Carlyon
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the world of horse racing, Bart Cummings is the master. His astonishing tally of twelve Melbourne Cup wins arguably makes him the greatest trainer in Australia's history and, by statistical measures, as freakish as Bradman. His laconic wit and indifference to the trappings of wealth and fame have see ...Show more