Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Knowledge Wars by Peter Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
"Climate scientists have warned that we need to change our behaviour in ways that may be inconvenient and threaten the commercial status quo. The result has been a polarising division in society and a sustained attack on their research. In The Knowledge Wars, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty makes a pass ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path To Power by David Marr
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The top job is within Bill Shorten's grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidab ...Show more
Atmospheric: The Burning Story of Climate Change by Carole Wilkinson
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Drum
Talking about the weather used to be small talk, now it's the hottest topic on Earth. We can't survive without Earth's atmosphere, yet most of the time we ignore it. We treat our atmosphere as a rubbish dump for our greenhouse gas emissions. Slowly but surely, what we are doing is changing Earth's clima ...Show more
Reading and Writing Farsi (Persian) - A Beginner's Guide to the Farsi Script and Language by Pegah Vil, Amir Hossein Ahooie
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Workbook for Self-Study Ser.
Learn the basics of the Farsi Language quickly! Reading & Writing Farsi is a self-study guide to the Farsi alphabet for anyone who is just getting started in learning this beautiful language. Author Pegah Vil has helped thousands of English-speaking students to learn Farsi and she developed these ea ...Show more
Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
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Category: General Non Fiction
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. ...Show more
TED: Follow Your Gut: How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More TED by Robert Knight
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Follow Your Gut Today we study the brain with painstaking detail. But we largely ignore what might prove to be the most important part of our body: the trillions of microbes that live inside us, especially in our gut. Increasingly, it looks like the harmless bacteria we each have ...Show more
TED: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: The Mathematics of Love There is no topic that attracts more attention-more energy and time and devotion- than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns. In her book The Mathematics of Love - and TEDxTalk of the ...Show more
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Putnam Robert D.
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Category: General Non Fiction
A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of ...Show more
Peers Inc by Robin Chase
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Category: General Non Fiction
Carsten Olm had worked for the same Danish accounting firm for 18 years when he decided to see if he could make a little extra money by renting out the spare bedroom in his Copenhagen apartment to tourists. Two years later, Carsten owned two apartments with 12 rooms for rent and was busy enough to have ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Unravelling of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
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Category: General Non Fiction
We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban s ...Show more