Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
Writing True Stories: The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction by Patti Miller
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This book provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, use research-and face the difficulties of truth-telling. The author first introduces and helps the reader ...Show more
Written in Stone: A Story of Rock and of Ourselves by Rachel De Moravia
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Stone: timeless, fascinating - and an essential part of human history. From Bernini's marble to Hepworth's abstracts, from cave dwellings to skyscrapers, from dividing walls to linking bridges, from collected pebbles to precious gems, this is an erudite, engaging and constantly surprising history of st ...Show more
Wrong Way: How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired by Damien Cahill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Since the 1980s, waves of neoliberal 'economic reform' have transformed Australia. Privatisation, deregulation, marketisation and the contracting out of government services: for three decades now, there has been widespread agreement among policymakers on the desirability of these strategies. But the be ...Show more
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing. Michael Scott celebrates the fusion of scholarship and adventure in a book full of both.' DAN SNOWUncovering the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch; the pursuit of every society from the ancients through to today. But the stori ...Show more
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain and were interned as 'enemy aliens'. In 1942, they were selected and trained to form a special unit of commandoes who would be sent back into Europe to play a signific ...Show more
X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
'This is Inglorious Basterds - but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine' Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the entire European continent. In desperation, Winston Churc ...Show more
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken by DERMOT TURING
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
The untold story of the events which drove to the Enigma code-breaking, and the men who made it possible. Everyone 'knows' that the Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park, but what led up to that, and what became of the Polish mathematicians who laid the basis for the code-breaking, is shrouded in myth and ...Show more
Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A timely political primer on Xi Jinping by acclaimed author and academic, Professor Kerry Brown.
Xi Jinping - The Backlash by Richard McGregor
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pengun Special
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem de ...Show more
Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'An entertaining work of memoir-cum-political strategy' Publishers Weekly The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand (which is why we all got 2016 wrong). Yes We (Still) Can looks at how Obama navigated th ...Show more
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary, offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way technology is transforming lives for better and for worse.