How the Tricolor Got Its Stripes and Other Stories About Flags by Dmytro Dubilet
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
A lively, anecdotal illustrated history of flags 'A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well' - Tim Marshall Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, taking a chatty but always entertaining path through this u ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
From award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence, comes Bright Shining, a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace. Grace is both mysterious and hard to defin ...Show more
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea by Jonathan White
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
A revealing history of the future as a political idea, from the Enlightenment to the current climate crisis Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and p ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. From greedy to generous, from cold to kind-hearted, from rogue to hero, Bill Gates is an extraordinarily complex public figure. Yet over th ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining by Julia Baird
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
The Voice, Your Choice: Essays in Persuasion for Yes, No and Undecided Voters by Tor Hundloe
$44.00 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
Read this book before you vote in The Voice to Parliament referendum. Whether a No or a Yes voter, it may transform the way you think and influence your reasons. Tor Hundloe draws widely on evolutionary psychology, pre-history, history, anthropology, geography, economics, biology and environmental scien ...Show more
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
The Russians are invading. But the locals have a plan. It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-fiction
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more