MinecraftThe Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game That Changed Everything by Daniel Goldberg
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Just a few years ago, Markus Persson was a bored IT-developer in Stockholm. In the evenings, he toiled away on a labour of love: a game with a tiny but dedicated online following. It was called Minecraft and Markus released it to the world in early 2009. The game itself looks deceptively simple. It rese ...Show more
Cocaine Confidential : True Stories Behind the World's Most Dangerous Narcotic by Wensley Clarkson
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Cocaine is the world's most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark and deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network? The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, and, ultimately, the dealers ...Show more
Powers of Two - Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs by Joshua Wolf Shenk
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Category: Non-Fiction
All of us have experienced creative connection, and glimpsed its power. Yet, for centuries, the myth of the lone genius has obscured the critical story of the power of collaboration. In Powers of Two, Joshua Wolf Shenk argues that creative pairs are the exemplars for innovation. Drawing on years of rese ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically in ...Show more
PROFESSOR AND THE PRESIDENT DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN AND THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE by HESS STEPHEN
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Category: Non-Fiction
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
A First Place by David Malouf
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Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering ...Show more
Have I Got More Views for You by Boris Johnson
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Category: Non-Fiction
Boris's last book of selected writings was published before he became Mayor of London. Now, seven years and one London Olympics later, the best-selling author of 'The Churchill Factor' has even more to say about sport, politics, culture and Britain in this superb new collection. In 'Have I Got More View ...Show more
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha (University of Maryland, College Park)
42.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant "Putin's Kleptocracy" provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater R ...Show more
Blueprint for Revolution - How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise Communities, Overthrow Dictators, Or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic
27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
How Do Ordinary People Become Revolutionaries? In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srdja Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world. Popovic was one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement Otpor! That overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic and ...Show more