Drug Addiction in Australia by John Sherman
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
This book is a comprehensive and clinically objective review of drug abuse and addiction in Australia. It is written to appeal to families, educators, policy makers, students, healthcare professionals and drug users. It is based on the knowledge and experience of Dr John Sherman and his clinic in Footsc ...Show more
Firestick Ecology: Fairdinkum Science in Plain English by Vic Jurskis
$39.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Aborigines came to Australia and burnt out most of the trees and bushes. The megafauna starved whilst eucalypts, herbs, grasses and mesofauna flourished. The ancient culture survived an ice age, global warming and hugely rising seas, forging economies in woodlands and deserts. Europeans doused the fires ...Show more
The Prince on the Art of Power by Niccolo Machiavelli
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Frequently misunderstood over the centuries as an unprincipled manual for manipulators and tyrants, careful reading of "The Prince" shows that it identifies freedom as an essential characteristic of a good society - Machiavelli sets out axioms for success and order amid the often violent political intri ...Show more
Potiphar's Wife: The Vatican's Secret and Child Sexual Abuse by Kieran Tapsell
$42.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
English summary: The cover-up of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church has been occurring under the pontificate of six popes since... German description:
The Secret Seduction and The Enigma of Attraction by Victoria Thompson
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
‘May I?’ She nodded. Andreas settled down beside Annabelle on the steps. They sat in silence, watching the harbour city below, their eyes following tiny coloured lights — boats scampering along the surface of the dark water. But it was the night sky with the stars and the moon, and the seagulls chas ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flo ...Show more
Southern Surveyor: Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel by Michael Veitch
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
This engaging book tells the stories of the men and women who worked onboard CSIRO's research vessel - the Southern Surveyor. For ten years (2003-2013) this magnificent ship sailed over 190 voyages across the seas and oceans around Australia and contributed a wealth of knowledge to marine science. From ...Show more
The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander
$50.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'The Globalization of Addiction' presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, or w ...Show more
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet by Kerryn Higgs
$63.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems -- poverty, debt, unemployment, and even ...Show more
Conspiracies: The Facts, The Theories, The Evidence by Andy Thomas
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Category: General Non Fiction
At any time in our history, you will find significant and seemingly indisputable events occurring, the kind that can change the course of our lives. Yet for every one of them, somebody, somewhere will loudly dispute the 'official' account, doubting that the truth has been told. In today's environment, w ...Show more
Rise of Isis by Jay Sekulow
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of America's most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions. Recently, the w ...Show more
The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
$50.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internet's deeply negative effects on our psycho ...Show more