I'm Rich, You're Poor - How to Give Social Media a Reality Check by Shabaz Ali
$37.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The world is full of books about how to be rich. This is not one of them.Today, many of us are feeling the pinch - and being bombarded with portrayals of social media 'perfection' is making that pinch feel more like a punch.We may know that social media - with all its billionaires and beauty queens - is ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Feminism
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
The Age Of Magical Overthinking: Notes On Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brill ...Show more
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals by Satyajit Das
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism — watching wildlife in nature — became his gravitati ...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
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved by Thomas D. Seeley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes readers inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty of the most compelling mysteries of honey bee behaviour.Thomas Seeley has devoted a lifetime to the study of honey bees and their colonies, unraveling the secrets of these wo ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes ...Show more
The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, and sounds, its small towns and big cities, its people and their compassion and indifference, simplicities and complications. In ...Show more
The Little Book of Butterflies by Andrei Sourakov, Alexandra A. Sourakov
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Little Books of Nature Ser.
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s butterflies.Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and original colour artwork, The Li ...Show more