Putting FACES on the Data - What Great Leaders and Teachers Do! by Lyn Sharratt; Michael Fullan
$36.00 AUD
$59.99 (39% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
When numbers become people, learners thrive Waves of data--indigestible, dehumanized, and disaggregated--are crashing into the education system every day, driving you to distraction. But imagine a world where you're not being drowned by data, but inspired by it; where that data has a FACE and gives you ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
$45.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon an ...Show more
Softly Softly: Capturing Hitler's Spies by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
They were doomed from the very beginning. During the Second World War, it didn't take long for the British Secret Services to discover that Nazi Germany's cohorts of espionage agents - influenced either by the illusionary light of profit or idealism, or the darkness of blackmail and reprisals - were l ...Show more
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR by Trent Dalton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
The Bottom Drawer Book - The after Death Action Plan by Lisa Herbert; Philip Judd (Illustrator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The Bottom Drawer Book is your after death action plan. Your ideas, plans, and your life's reflections will sit quietly in its pages until they're needed. Then, when you go, there'll be no family squabbling over how much to spend on your casket, who'll tell stories at your funeral, and which songs to pl ...Show more
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Prehistoric World
Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than fictions? This is the arresting and original idea that Adrienne Mayo ...Show more
The Return of Inflation - Money and Capital in the 21st Century by Paul Mattick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Both a history and a contemporary analysis, an illuminating investigation of the defining economic concern of our time. The last year has seen the return of inflation as a preoccupation of political decision-makers, economists, and the general public. After two decades of wondering why inflation was so ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Journalism & Press
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more