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
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
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
A Date with Language by David Crystal
$49.99 AUD
Category: Language
A collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year. In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets, and global institutions, together with the ...Show more
What Are Animal Rights For? by Steve Cooke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans ...Show more
The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian refugee journeys by Melinda Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist Melinda Ham. Following the narratives of new Australians from Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Tibet, Vietnam and Zaire, The Lucky Ones is a testament to human resilience and the power of new beginnings. For fans of Th ...Show more
Reed Concise Guide - Trees of Australia by Jones David L
$16.99 AUD
Category: Nature
This is the latest exciting addition to our growing series of concise field guides. The ultimate keep-in-your -pocket guide to Australian trees, it may be diminutive in size but it punches well above its weight in terms of usefulness, being packed with more than 350 images. The introduction includes cha ...Show more
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
$26.99 AUD
Category: Nature
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. 'This is, quite simply, the best thing I've ever done.' Sir David Attenborough on the ...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 First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor
$21.00 AUD
$34.99 (39% off)
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 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
The Killer's Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives by Jane Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Exposing Captain Starlight's twisted life of crime and deceit. Who was 'Captain Starlight'? When a respectable public servant dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, the authorities are baffled. Who really was the dead man? Was he an Irish nobleman fallen on hard times - or a conman, a forger, ...Show more