iGen by Jean M. Twenge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen--the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later--are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me. Wit ...Show more
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
As heard on NPR's This American Life "Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." --Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime a ...Show more
Perspective and Other Optical Illusions by Phoebe Mcnaughton
$23.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List by James Mustich
$49.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetr ...Show more
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman; Greta Thunberg; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink 'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell ap ...Show more
Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
‘I’m going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?’ When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz asked her colleagues this question in 2011, she had no idea that less than a decade later it would inspire a global movement of 250 million people in 177 countries to reduce their plastic use. Plastic Free tells the incr ...Show more
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants by Graham Spence, Lawrence Anthony
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - dangerous and unpredictable, they would be killed if Anthony wouldn't take ...Show more
Year 9 NAPLAN*-style Literacy Tests (Excel) by Hewes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This book is designed for parents who want to help their children and for teachers who wish to prepare their class for the NAPLAN Literacy Tests. NAPLAN Tests are sat by Year 9 students Australia-wide. These tests are held in May every year.
On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapse ...Show more
A Man & His Watch: Iconic Watches and Stories from the Men Who Wore Them by Matt Hranek
$69.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
"I've paged through stacks of books on the history of watches. . . . But I hadn't come across a book that actually moved me until I picked up A Man and His Watch. The volume is filled with heartfelt stories."--T: The New York Times Style MagazinePaul Newman wore his Rolex Daytona every single day for 35 ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death.The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world g ...Show more
Surviving Year Zero : My Four Years Under the Khmer Rouge by Sovannora Ieng
$32.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Surviving Year Zero is the story of one young man, yet it is the story of millions of people. It tells of how Sovannora Ieng lived through the genocide that tore at the heart of Cambodia in the 1970s. Sovannora survived in an environment where survival was barely possible. He and his family experienced ...Show more