Crash of 2016: the Plot to Destroy America--And What We Can Do to Stop it by Thom Hartmann
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Category: Non-Fiction
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before - including during the Great Depression and the Civil War - because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash. The United Sta ...Show more
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
26.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and the power of the Black Death, a killer so deadly it destroys 90 per cent of those it touches. Except you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists. It is a virus and its name is Ebola. Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, ...Show more
Dead MountainThe Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
New York Times bestseller -- What happened that night on Dead Mountain? The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident--unexplained violent injuries, ...Show more
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
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Category: Non-Fiction
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This book presents the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. ...Show more
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Non-Fiction
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really w ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
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Category: Non-Fiction
Command and Controlinterweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depi ...Show more
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
23.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
New format of this collection of personal essays by Helen Garner, which spans 25 years of work, by one of Australia's greatest writers. Readers will be fascinated by some of the events that shaped her life as a writer and as a person.
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
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Category: Non-Fiction
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
72.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Power Systems - Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Non-Fiction
Power Systems is the latest collection of searing insights from intellectual superstar Noam Chomsky. In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fuku ...Show more
Cooked - A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
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Category: Non-Fiction
Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. Now a docu-series streaming on Netflix, starring Pollan as he explores how cooking transforms food and shapes our world. ...Show more
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Non-Fiction
Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdo ...Show more