Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat by Sally C. Davies; Mike Catchpole; Jonathan Grant
$9.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Resistance to our current range of antibiotics is the new inconvenient truth. If we don't act now, we risk the health of our parents, our children and our grandchildren. Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have s ...Show more
The Whitlam Mob by Mungo MacCallum
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'We were a motley mob, we sans-culottes of Canberra . . . ' In this vastly entertaining book, Mungo MacCallum captures the spirit of a nation-changing time. He portrays the Whitlam government's key figures - from Gough and Margaret to Lionel Murphy, Bill Hayden and Jim Cairns - as well as 'the other mo ...Show more
Economics of Just About Everything: The hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes by Andrew Leigh
$26.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A fun and illuminating book full of surprising facts and amazing insights about how the laws of economics affect our everyday lives.
Tim Winton: Critical Essays by Lyn McCredden (Editor); Nathanael O'Reilly (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Why is it that Tim Winton - one of Australia's most popular and literary novelists - has received little sustained critical attention? This collection of essays examines the impact of Winton's work on understanding what it is to be Australian, to be human, to make and question meaning. His novels and sh ...Show more
The Good Fight by Wayne Swan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A very personal account of an extraordinary period in Australian politics. Despite the divisions within the Labor Party as the Rudd government fell into disunity and as Julia Gillard was undermined by disloyalty from within, Wayne Swan steered the Australian economy through a time of unprecedented inter ...Show more
The Dangerous Bride, the A Memoir of Love, Gods and Geography by Lee Kofman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: General Adult
What do you do when your husband claims to be madly in love with you, but doesn't desire you sexually? When your therapist is more interested in opening an online sex-toy shop with your husband than in saving your marriage? Do you try yet another counsellor, get divorced or settle for a sexless marriage ...Show more
Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction by Terry Pratchett
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series - but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings toge ...Show more
Swimming to the Moon by Robert Drewe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the non-fiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These pieces encompass suburban portraits and coastal living, affec ...Show more
Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own. In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. N ...Show more
The Future Chasers: Stories from Young Australians of Innovation, Change and Leadership by Jan Owen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Think you know young Australians? Think again. This collection profiles 15 extraordinarily talented, inspiring and hard-working young people achieving amazing things in fields as varied as politics, industry, the arts, and medicine. These uplifting and daring agents of change are turning generational st ...Show more
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion by Sam Harris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
For the millions who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From multiple New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist, Sam Harris, Waking Up is for the millions who follow no religion, but who suspec ...Show more
Meeting the Devil - A Book of Memoir by London Review of Books
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979. This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRB's pages. Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the Second World War, Jenny Diski imagine ...Show more