Peers Inc by Robin Chase
$32.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science Of How We Learn From Love And Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor
$49.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have writt ...Show more
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You by Sean B. Carroll
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driv ...Show more
Among the Islands : Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery
$32.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, credited with discovering more species than Darwin. In Among the Islands Flannery recounts a series of expeditions he made at the dawn of his career to the strange tropical islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly 4,000 m ...Show more
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
CAN I GET A "RAMEN" FROM THE CONGREGATION?! Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Mon ...Show more
How to Think Like Leonardo by Michael Gelb
$40.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Genius is made, not born. And human beings are gifted with an almost unlimited potential for learning and creativity. Now you can uncover your own hidden abilities, sharpen your senses, and liberate your unique intelligence--by following the example of the greatest genius of all time, Leonardo da Vinci. ...Show more
Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration by June Sarpong
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Written by June Sarpong MBE and with research from Oxford University, Diversify is a fierce, accessible and empowering guide to why a more open society means a more successful one.But what if actively seeking the unfamiliar was proven to be the key to a brighter future - both personally and for society ...Show more
Not for Greens: He Who Sups with the Devil Should Have a Long Spoon by Ian Plimer
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Ian Plimer
The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we ...Show more
Hooked: The Secrets of a High Class Call Girl by Samantha X
$19.98 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Samantha X is not your typical hooker. She's the wrong side of 35, has two kids and counts dining at her local pizzeria as a wild night out. Career-wise, Samantha had it all: writing for Australia's top-selling women's magazines, appearing as a media expert on television and travelling the world for the ...Show more
Gravity - An Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity by James B. Hartle
$165.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Einstein's theory of general relativity is a cornerstone of modern physics. It also touches upon a wealth of topics that students find fascinating--black holes, warped spacetime, gravitational waves, and cosmology. Until now, it has not been included in the curriculum of many undergraduate physics cours ...Show more