Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
Unreliable Memoirs: Unrealiable Memoirs Book 1 by Clive James
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: very good
With an introduction by P. J. O'Rourke 'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter.' Sunday Times I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me. I ...Show more
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The open range cattle era lasted barely a quarter-century, but it left America irrevocably changed. These few decades following the Civil War brought America its greatest boom-and-bust cycle until the Depression, the invention of the assembly line, and the dawn of the conservation movement. It inspired ...Show more
Women Leading by Christine Nixon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Business
Women Leading smashes tired prescriptions that women should lead like men, highlighting a long history of innovative female leadership. Christine Nixon and Amanda Sinclair draw on their own and thousands of others' experiences to argue it is women who provide new inspiration for change towards inventive ...Show more
Making Sense of Madness by Jim Geekie
$39.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses
The experience of madness - which might also be referred to more formally as 'schizophrenia' or 'psychosis' - consists of a complex, confusing and often distressing collection of experiences, such as hearing voices or developing unusual, seemingly unfounded beliefs. Madness, in its various forms and gui ...Show more
Every Lie I've Ever Told by Rosie Waterland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
'I had made it! All my dreams had come true. I had an operating fridge, I was doing brilliantly, and I had written the memoir to prove it. I even had online haters. I had conquered life at 30 and nothing was ever going to go wrong again!'It was all going so well for Rosie Waterland. Until it wasn't. Unt ...Show more
Caught Inside by DANIEL DUANE
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Caught Inside" is Daniel Duane's account of a year spent surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Following the turn of the seasons, it is also the story of a young man's deepening knowledge of his native landscape and its history. Interspersed with the narrative of days passed on the water are good-humored ...Show more
Walking Free: The Extraordinary True Story by Munjed Al Muderis; Patrick Weaver (As told to)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theater and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
The Islamic Republic of Australia by Sami Shah
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
What is Halal? A country bordering Shariahland, or a method of preparing food? Do the Five Pillars of Islam comply with modern building codes? Or are they simply a philosophy for living? And if Muslims first arrived in Australia as early as 1800, can they go back to where they came from?In this funny an ...Show more
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is your happy hour with Amy Schumer... It's Bossypants meets Trainwreck meets your long weekend." --TheSkimm "Amy's got your back. She's in your corner. She's an honesty bomb. And she's coming for you." --Actress Tilda Swinton and Trainwreck co-star ...Show more