The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age and Terror of Trump (HB) by Andrew G. McCabe
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
This program is read by the author. On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on T ...Show more
Sylvan Cities by Helen Babbs
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Sylvan City is a potted-journey through our cities' woody places and a literary hunt for where their wild things are. Reviews for Sylvan Cities: 'Clever, pretty, fun and informative - what more can a reader ask for?' Sara Maitland, author of Gossip From the Forest 'Full of gems; a manifesto for green ...Show more
Myths & Legends: An illustrated guide to their origins and meanings by .
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Norse mythology - in this comprehensive guide. What did Japanese mythology say about the beginning of the Universe? How did Oedipus become the classic tragic hero in Greek mythology? Who brought about the origin of death in Maori ...Show more
Signs & Symbols: An illustrated guide to their origins and meanings by DK
42.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Discover the fascinating origins and meanings of over 2,000 signs and symbols from mythology and religion to astrology and ancient tribes in this comprehensive guide.For centuries, symbols have been imperative throughout the world, signifying ideas, relationships, and objects across different cultures. ...Show more
Licence to Be Bad - How Economics Corrupted Us by Jonathan Aldred
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation might have seemed stupid, harmful or simply wicked now seems rational, natural, woven into the very logic of things. And, asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revela ...Show more
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
26.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature o ...Show more
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
65.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Collected essays and speeches from the bestselling, Booker-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an incre ...Show more
People, Power and Profits (HB) by Joseph Stiglitz
45.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
We all have the sense that the American economy-and its government-tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his powerful new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocket ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
Who's Minding the Farm? In This Climate Emergency by Patrice Newell
35.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A vital account of how sustainable farming can address urgent issues such as climate change and water scarcity, health and nutrition, land stewardship, renewables vs. the coal industry, as well as meaningful and fulfilling rural employment. And a call to arms. You know who is minding the farm - our cons ...Show more
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out by Bill McKibben
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Category: Non-Fiction
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - ...Show more
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency from perhaps his closest collaborator, and a political memoir about the power of words to change our world This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama ...Show more