Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In this book, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza ...Show more
Ukraine Diaries by Andrey Kurkov
$25.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Ukrainian Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the crisis in his country. Written from his flat in Kiev, just 500 metres away from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot. The diaries begin on the first day of ...Show more
Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...Show more
The Tao of Pooh 40th Anniversary Gift Edition by HOFF BENJAMIN
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
“What’s this you’re writing?… asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table. “The Tao of Pooh,… I replied. “The how of Pooh?… asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written. “The Tao of Pooh,… I replied, poking his paw away with my pencil. “It seems more like ow! of Pooh,… said Pooh, rubbing his ...Show more
Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China’s past, prese ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
The Astronomers' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe by Karen Masters
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent - Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, ...Show more
Grief by Michael Cholbi
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief-and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow. Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us-as universal as it is painful-is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examin ...Show more
Climate Change - The Facts 2020 by Jennifer Marohasy (Editor)
$59.95 AUD
Category: Environment
On 24 September 2019, the 17-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit saying, "People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction." A day earlier, however, the climate policy foundation Climate ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$17.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, im ...Show more
How Things Work - The Inner Life of Everyday Machines (HB) by Theodore Gray; Nick Mann (Photographer)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyd ...Show more
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle To Defend the West by David E Sanger
$45.00 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry against the other two great nuclear powers--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of a half century ago. New Cold Wars--the latest from Pulitze ...Show more