Outnumbered - Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives by David Sumpter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habit ...Show more
Secret Sisterhood:The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf by Emily Midorikawa; Emma Claire Sweeney; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literary history.'Margaret Atwood 'A Secret Sisterhood will help make women's literary friendships of the past relevant to the present.'Mich#65533;le Roberts 'A ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
The Tiger's Child by Torey L. Hayden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller). After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. Sheila was a deeply disturbed six-year-old when she came into Torey Hayden's life - a story poig ...Show more
Telling it Like it Is by RITA PANAHI
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Powerful new collection of previously published articles from journalist and opinion columnist Rita Panahi. Topics include the plight of women under Islam, modern feminism, new-age parenting, animal cruelty, Australian values, and much more. In Telling It Like It Is, American-born Iranian Australian opi ...Show more
On Character by Peta Credlin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Character might seem like an old fashioned notion today. It brings to mind quaint virtues like loyalty, independence, fortitude and honesty. So has the idea of a person of good character disappeared in the era of personality politics, vaulting ambition, the cult of the celebrity and the obsession with t ...Show more
Make the Liberal Party Great Again by John Ruddick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A manifesto for Liberal Party supporters around Australia. In this timely book, John Ruddick calls for the Liberal Party of Australia to be brought not so much into the 21st century but rather into the latter part of the 20th century. The principal parties in almost all comparative democracies have in t ...Show more
Google It - A History of Google - How Two Students' Mission to Organize the Internet Changed the World by Anna Crowley Redding
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world.Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world's information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential and innovativ ...Show more
Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$69.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the ...Show more
Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a Little Dish, and Neil Armstrong's First Step by Andrew Tink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Nei ...Show more
Good Muslim Boy by Osamah Sami
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Good Muslim Boy is Osamah Sami’s true depiction of his life as a young Muslim man. From his early life with his family in Iran during the Iran/Iraq war, to their migration to Australia, his tale is in turns comic and tragic, and explores the universal truths of growing up, falling in love and marriage, ...Show more
The People vs the Banks by Michael Roddan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thi ...Show more