Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
Beyond Belief by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What do people actually mean when they say 'God'?Around two-thirds of us say we believe in God or some 'higher power', but fewer than one in ten Australians attend church weekly. In Beyond Belief, Hugh Mackay presents this discrepancy as one of the great unexamined topics of our time. He argues that whi ...Show more
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising. The result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates a ...Show more
Australia's Best Unknown Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From Jim Haynes, one of Australia's most successful and prolific authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns, and furphies. . . all of them unknown. Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know w ...Show more
No Going Back by Lisa Kennedy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
During a routine family holiday to her husband's homeland of Turkey, Lisa Kennedy was suddenly told their marriage was over. Her husband took their six-month-old baby from her care and instructed her to go home to Australia, alone - beginning four years of hell in Istanbul as she fought the case through ...Show more
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands by Aatish Taseer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the twenty-first century?When Aatish Taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in Pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the Islamic world in search of his own Islamic heritage, as well as to discover how other young people ...Show more
Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
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Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert by David Rosenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. For the first time, a US h ...Show more
Brexit and Ireland - The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response by Tony Connelly
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Brexit represents the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area of Irish life that won't be affected. More than any other journalist, RTE's long-time Brussels correspondent Tony Connelly has been helping the public make ...Show more
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
"I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris's take on existence is calm, unique, and makes one's soul feel good yet never once does he rely on feel-good techniques." (Douglas Coupland). Solitude is a rapidly vanishing experience. Our society now embraces sharing like never before: t ...Show more
How Will Capitalism End? by Wolfgang Streeck
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the capitalist money economy has all but ev ...Show more
The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years after 9/11.Following the attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, eluded intelligence services and Special Forces units for almost a decade. Using remarkable, first-person testimony from bin ...Show more