Meat Eater by Steven Rinella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an overabundance to savor. The New York Times Book Review /b> teven Rinella grew up in Twin Lake, Michigan, the son of a hunter who taught his three sons to l ...Show more
What's Really Happening to Our Planet? by Tony Juniper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What's Really Happening To Our Planet? is the only book to fully review the current state of the planet and the way in which our unchecked human activity could change the world forever, with a perspective on what we can do to reverse the damage. Wide ranging, heart-stopping research is distilled into on ...Show more
Meanjin Vol. 73, No. 1 by Zora Sanders (Ed.)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The March 2014 issue of Meanjin is full of outsiders, revolutionaries and dissenters. We discover a lost archive of photographs of Charmian Clift on and George Johnson on Hydra in an essay by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell, while James Douglas take a look at the unique powers of persuasion employed by j ...Show more
Man and Beast by Andrew Rule
$20.00 AUD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Non Fiction
Cavemen tamed fire then they tamed animals, wild ancestors of the domestic breeds that have been with us ever since. From the city beggar sharing a blanket with a bull terrier to oil-sheiks breeding Arabian horses, humans are suckers for animals. Writers are not immune. Les Carlyon has written of horses ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
Safe: How to Stay Safe in a Dangerous World by Chris Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life. He leads you through a variety of situations including what ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
Taking to the Skies by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball? From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story about tragedy and ec ...Show more
Love in A Sunburnt Country by Jo Jackson King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Eight fascinating real-life stories of romance in the Australian outback from a gifted storyteller and bestselling author, Jo Jackson King. 'It is always love that keeps or pulls women into the outback towns and properties and those are the stories I want to tell.' The bush can be a difficult place to c ...Show more
What is a Refugee? by William Maley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In a globalised world, wealthy states have the resources to protect refugees
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