Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pultizer-prize winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as coal and oil are now making room for natural gas, nuclear power and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
Black Gold - The Dark History of Coffee by Antony Wild
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world 'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna Blythman It may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links ...Show more
Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of fully developed leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity ...Show more
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language by Albert Costa; John W. Schwieter (Translator)
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The definitive book on bilingualism and its impact on the brain from a leading expert. What exactly does it mean for two languages to coexist in the same brain? How do babies exposed to different languages differentiate between them? And how does cognitive decline affect the two languages? Bilingua ...Show more
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level, now published in more than twenty languages, has been one of the most influential non-fiction books published in the last decade, showing conclusively how less equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across a whole range of social measures - ...Show more
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other-even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the ...Show more
Chinese Spies by Roger Faligot
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Chinese Spies is an astounding and unmatched source book on the extraordinary reach of the PRC’s intelligence network. Roger Faligot explains in colourful detail the complex links between the spy agencies, the Party, the Party leaders, Chinese companies and the People’s Liberation Army. At once fascinat ...Show more
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author ...Show more
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher
27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." --David Brooks In this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, Ameri ...Show more
Cults: Truth Behind the World's Most Shocking Cults by Nigel Cawthorne
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make for some of the most disturbing and shocking revelations in history. Most chilling of all is the fact that many of their ...Show more