Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
The History of Magic - From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A unique history of the forgotten, oldest strand of human history, and its resurgence today. Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe, and that the univers ...Show more
The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the way that technology has altered, and continues to alter, ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author by Haruki Murakami
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
If You Tell - A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller. #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors. After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, an ...Show more
The Great Mental Models: Systems and Mathematics by Shane Parrish
$50.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A cult bestseller in the US, available around the world for the first time, The Great Mental Models introduces the simple tools we all need to see the world clearly. Time and time again, great thinkers like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have credited their success to mental models- simple represent ...Show more
How Are We Going to Explain This? by Jelmer Mommers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn't leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying.
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo ...Show more
Walking Towards Thunder: The true story of a whistle-blowing cop who took on corruption and the church by Peter Fox
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims ...Show more
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean by Jonathan White
$49.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Writer, sailor, and conservationist Jonathan White hunts for arctic mussels at low tide, races a twenty-five-foot tidal bore, investigates tidal power generation, and examines the threats of sea level rise Tides combines lyrical prose with travel adventure and cultural history with scientific inquiry to ...Show more