Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia by Conor Woodman
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A wild and dangerous ride from the world's main meth source, a lawless Asian narco-state, to its most valuable market: Australia. When he received an SOS from a friend kidnapped in a dark corner of Asia, journalist Conor Woodman began a journey that would lead him to the most dangerous and least underst ...Show more
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban by Andy McNab
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012 in Northern Afghanistan. Andy McNab draws on classified sources and his own personal insight into the inner-workings of the special forces to tell the story of the rescue mission. The thrilli ...Show more
The Handover by David Runciman
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more
The Big Fail: How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most by Bethany McLean
36.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A damning indictment of American capitalism, as exposed through the failures of the government, private sector and overall economic resilience throughout the COVID pandemic.From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-an ...Show more
When the Heavens Went on Sale - The misfits and geniuses racing to put space within reach by Ashlee Vance
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Acid-dropping NASA renegades and the new the space race no one knows is coming. When the Heavens Went on Sale is a fast-paced, exclusive, behind-the-scenes narrative about the race for space that's happening under our noses and over our heads. While the billionaire battles of Bezos vs Branson vs Musk do ...Show more
The Gold: The final truth behind Brink's Mat: Britain's biggest heist by Neil Forsyth
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For ...Show more
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
AI: Game On: How to decide who or what decides by Tim Trumper
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
AI: Game On is written for today’s business leaders who seek to understand how AI can be leveraged for increased sustainability, improved competitive positioning and/or to drive better customer, shareholder and societal outcomes. The aim of AI: Game On is to help business leaders thrive in a world that ...Show more
7 Myths About Women and Work by Catherine Fox
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Being a woman, raising children, succeeding in a leadership role and living a full life remains a tall order in modern Australia if you don't happen to be extraordinary. Being a woman on a board, running an ASX top listed company, or running a government department remains an exception rather than the n ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly defending themselves from Russian aggression. And it is ...Show more