Power & Consent by Rachel Doyle
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The scandal involving Dyson Heydon, former justice of the High Court, confirmed that the scourge of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces was also to be found in the chambers of one of the seven most senior judges in the country. An unquestioning reliance on the calibre of the fine legal minds appo ...Show more
Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future by Peter Hartcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
China is a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions when it comes to Australia? And what lies behind the recent chill in relations between the two countries? In this gripping book, Peter Hartcher shows how Australia woke up to China's c ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more
Super Mario Encyclopedia: The Official Guide to the First 30 Years by Nintendo
$69.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This deluxe limited edition comes with an embossed slipcase specially designed to look like the iconic Super Mario ? Block Inside, you'll find one of four covers--Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, Super Star, or 1-Up Mushroom--each accentuated with shimmering holofoil The book also includes a ribbon bookmark ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
The Displaced : Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and l ...Show more
Mac Unlocked - Everything You Need to Know to Get Cracking in MacOS Big Sur by David Pogue
$49.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
MacOS 11, fondly known as macOS Big Sur, represents Apple's most sweeping Mac design overhaul in 20 years. It comes with 50 updated apps, 100 new features, and a renewed emphasis on privacy. What it doesn't come with ... is a manual. For 30 years, Mac owners have turned to David Pogue's books to guide t ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...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
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
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me by Andra Putnis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers. As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled ...Show more