Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
$26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Coper ...Show more
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Business
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 'Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho' Bloomberg 'A compelling read' Economist 'Captivating' New York Times book review Jim Simons is the greates ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Magazines & Journals
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Hamlet is Not OK by R.A. Spratt
$16.99 AUD
Category: 6 to 9 Years Old
Selby didn’t plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. Selby Michaels is totally busted. Her parents found out she hasn’t read any books for her English class – not ever! Which was particularly upsetting to them since her parents run the local bookshop. They sentence Selby to hard l ...Show more
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. But from the day that a whale washes up on t ...Show more
I Have The Right: An affirmation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by Reza Dalvand
$26.99 AUD
Category: 2 to 6 Years Old
A stunningly illustrated and essential volume on children's rights- an introduction for kids and a reminder for adults. I have the right to have a name and a nationality. I have the right to the best healthcare. I have the right to an education. I have the right to a home where I can thrive. With p ...Show more
Prudish Nation by Paul Dalgarno
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
From its early settler days and Federation to the extreme literary censorship of the 20th century, from the 2017 Marriage Amendment Act to present-day morality and identity politics, it's tempting to ask- is 'fun-loving, laid-back' Australia actually a bit, well, prudish? Interviewing more than 30 Aust ...Show more
The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments and Influencers are lying to you by John Pabon
$34.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Saving the planet is big business. Realising this, savvy companies are hopping on the sustainability bandwagon. Some may have altruistic ends in mind, but most want to make a quick buck. As ethical spending and consumer options increase, greenwashing is not only proliferating - it's also becoming harder ...Show more
The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age by Dr Gladys McGarey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Six secrets to health and happiness at any age, from 101-year-old pioneer of holistic medicinepowerful secrets for how to live with joy and vitality at any age. The Well-Lived Life offers a counterintuitive approach to living a rich, full, and purposeful life that isn't about conserving energy, but rath ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more