Beyond the Stethoscope - Doctors' Stories of Reclaiming Hope, Heart and Healing in Medicine by Lucy Mayes
29.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Our health care system is sick. We live in an era of factory style medicine, spiralling costs, complex and chronic conditions, and doctors at the heart of it under pressure as never before. Witnessing worrying burnout in her doctor husband, Lucy Mayes went on a quest to find out what is really going on ...Show more
Liquidator - The Chernobyl Story by Sergei Belyakov
48.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In the late April of 1986, the world learned about the quaint town in the Central Ukraine -- Chernobyl. The largest nuclear catastrophe in the history of mankind, which affected the lives of millions and millions, had forced the USSR government to take unprecedented actions. One of them was the formatio ...Show more
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Will China rule the world or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise. Over the past four decades, China's remarkable transformation has garnered admiration but also sparked co ...Show more
Entrenchment - Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies by Paul Starr
52.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealth Much of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment--efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo. That is why the s ...Show more
The Apprentice - Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the first time the truth behind the Kremlin's attempt to put Trump in the White House, how they did it, when and why. This exclusive book uncovers the truth behi ...Show more
Official Secrets: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War (FTI) by Marcia Mitchell; Thomas Mitchell
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, MATT SMITH, RALPH FIENNES AND MATTHEW GOODE FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. Th ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
The Hot Zone by Richard PRESTON
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease. Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000 cases have been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the United States. Impossible to ...Show more
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
21.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Explosive."--The Washington Post "Devastating."--The New Yorker THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's W ...Show more
Fall and Rise: the Story Of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is ...Show more
Putin's World - Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as ...Show more