The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
The Element - How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson; Lou Aronica
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times-bestselling breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from the one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When peo ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
The phenomenal international bestsellerBefore you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that ...Show more
The Pomodoro Technique - Do More and Have Fun with Time Management by Francesco Cirillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Available in bookshops for the first time, the internationally acclaimed time management system that has been used by millions, written by Francesco Cirillo, creator of the Pomodoro Technique. We all face the same problem: we're constantly busy but we never seem to get anything done. We know we should ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
Think and Grow Rich: The Master Mind Volume by Napoleon Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This book contains money-making secrets that can change your life. Think and Grow Rich, based on the author's famed Law of Success, represents the distilled wisdom of distinguished men of great wealth and achievement. Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success was the direct inspiration for this book. ...Show more
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen. 54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves. Norway is the richest country on earth. 5 ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Depends What You Mean by Extremist - Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more