Baby Boom: How it Got That Way...and it Wasn't My Fault...and I'll Never Do it Again by P. J. O'Rourke
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. ...Show more
The Moth: This Is a True Story by Catherine Burns, The Moth
21.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read, from ordinary people and established writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Sebastian Junger and Nathan Englander. Introduced by Neil Gaiman
If Oceans Were Ink .. Heart of the Koran by Carla Power
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her long-time friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship-between a secular American and a madrasa - trained sheik ...Show more
Caring Economics by Tania Singer
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Can the hyper-ambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or is economics driven solely by materialism and self-interest? In Caring Economics, experts consider these questions alongside the Dalai Lama in a wide-ranging, scientific-base ...Show more
Copyfight: Firing Up Conversation About Copyright by Phillipa McGuinness
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Writers, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, lawyers and academics talk about why copyright matters to them - or doesn't. We expect to be able to log on and read, watch or listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Then copy it, share it, quote it, sample it, remix it. Does this leave writers, designers, filmmak ...Show more
North Korea: Markets and Military Rule by Hazel Smith
65.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of ...Show more
Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Since childhood, Oliver Sacks has been fascinated by ferns: an ancient class of plants able to survive and adapt in many climates. Along with a delightful group of fellow fern aficionados--mathematicians, poets, artists, and assorted botanists and birders--he embarks on an exploration of Southern Mexico ...Show more
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure by Tim Flannery
24.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review 'This book combines an irresistible author with an irresistible subject: Tim Flannery, a great zoologist an ...Show more
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture. First published in 1993, the writings ...Show more
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Non-Fiction
Christopher Hitchens is widely recognized as having been one of the liveliest and most influential of contemporary political analysts. Prepared for the Worst is a collection of the best of his essays of the 1980s published on both sides of the Atlantic. These essays confirmed his reputation as a bold co ...Show more
Beneath the Pale Blue Burqa: One Woman's Journey Through Taliban Strongholds by Kay Danes
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever when ruthless Al-Qaeda terrorists launched an aerial attack on the United States of America. Oblivious to the world's terror, Kay and Kerry Danes sat half a world away, secure in an Embassy after a terrifying 11-month hostage ordeal in communist Laos. As ...Show more
Rise of Islamic State ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
21.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements, especially ISIS, are starting to emerge. In military operations in June 2014 they were far more successful than Al Qaeda ever were, taking territory that reache ...Show more