When Life Sucks: The practical and effective how-to guide to parenting your teen through tough times from an expert psychiatrist and comedian for fans of Maggie Dent, Celia Lashlie and Nigel Latta by Dr Jo Prendergast
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A first-aid manual to supporting your teen's mental health, by psychiatrist and comedian Dr Jo Prendergast When Life Sucks is an essential guide to supporting your teen's mental health. As a parent and psychiatrist, Dr Jo knows how hard it can be - especially if a teen communicates only in eye rolls and ...Show more
The Matilda Effect by Fiona Crawford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From the journey to just play to the fight for the world cup The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the wor ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: How we acquire, retain and communicate knowledge from ancient times to the era of big data by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Named a Best History Book for 2023 From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how ...Show more
Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Shauna Bostock
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history. The phone rang unexpectedly late one night. 'Guess who our white ancestors were?' chuckled Uncle Gerry. 'They were slave traders! A couple of generations of slave traders!' With this startling revelation, Shauna wanted to ...Show more
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one o ...Show more
Assassination of the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protégé by David W. Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in ...Show more
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love. And then it occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here. Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because ...Show more
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders - A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour; Harry Belafonte (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women's March, shares an "unforgettable memoir" (Booklist) about how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country. On a chilly spring morning ...Show more
AI for All - How Everyday People Can Benefit from Artificial Intelligence by Shawn Schuster
$40.00 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
This book will revolutionize your perspective on artificial intelligence by breaking down the misconceptions surrounding AI and highlighting the ways in which it can help individuals and businesses alike. From healthcare to finance, education to manufacturing, this book illustrates how AI can improve ef ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$42.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'[An] excellent short stu ...Show more
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she c ...Show more