JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The truth behind the assassination of JFK - reissued and updated for the sixtieth anniversary Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US of ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
Nietzsche (The Great Philosophers) by Ronald Hayman
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.While the nineteenth ce ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions by Jason Travis Ott
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Category: General Non Fiction
Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confo ...Show more
Voltaire (The Great Philosophers) by John Gray
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the a ...Show more
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
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Category: General Non Fiction
The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. It shows that real power is collective power and that speaking up and allying yourself with likeminded others is one of the key pathways to change. This is ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: General Non Fiction
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
Aristotle (The Great Philosophers) by Kenneth Mcleish
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist i ...Show more
History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events that Shaped the World by DK
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Category: General Non Fiction
Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the war of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happen ...Show more
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain by Steve Tibble
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Category: General Non Fiction
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation--but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect ...Show more