Against All Odds: The Inside Account of the Thai Cave Rescue, and the Courageous Australians at the Heart of It by Craig Challen; Richard Harris
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'I just want to warn you. You're going to dive to the end of the cave. You're going to see these kids. They're all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you're going to swim away, and they're probably all going to die.' In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the ...Show more
The Bonjour Effect by Julie Barlow
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoit and Julie chronicle the le ...Show more
Meeting Saddam's Men by Ashton Robinson
34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This book is Ashton Robinson's unique eye-witness account of the ISG's operations in Iraq, based at Camp Slayer, in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces the group's task was to search for weapons of mass destruction or to account for them if they did not exist. But the ISG discovered so much more. The ...Show more
The Coming Collapse of China by Gordon G. Chang
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This title predicts the imminent implosion of the economy and government of The People's Republic of China. Written by a Chinese American lawyer who has lived and worked in China for over 20 years, he brings his first-hand experience and economic expertise to this book.
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the ...Show more
How to Rig an Election by Nic Cheeseman; Brian Klaas
26.99 AUD
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Category: Non-Fiction
In this engaging and provocative work, the authors expose the limitations of national elections as a means of promoting democratization, and reveal the six essential strategies that dictators use to undermine the electoral process in order to guarantee victory for themselves.
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful argument that materialism is at the center of tod ...Show more
True Stories - And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with p ...Show more
Narrative Economics - How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J Shiller
47.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories help drive economic events In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect ...Show more
This Is the Way the World Ends - How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit
26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Bustle's "17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In September 2018""With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It's impacting communities all over the world at t ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
49.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more