White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
Wordy - Sounding off on high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more
Shot Down: The Powerful Story of What Happened to MH17 over Ukraine and the Lives of Those Who Were on Board by Marianne van Velzen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: MH17
The first full telling of what happened to MH17 and the stories of those who were killed on that tragic day.
New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.We' ...Show more
The Philosophers' Library: Books that Shaped the World by Adam Ferner, Chris Meyns
$49.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
The Philosophers' Library features the most important philosophy manuscripts and books as stepping stones to take your through the history of philosophy. By cataloguing the history of philosophy via its key works, this book reflects the physical results of human thinking and endeavour; brilliant thought ...Show more
Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind by Kyle D. Evans
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A gifty maths book about viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years.
Uncommon Wealth - Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'BRILLIANTLY ARRANGED AND RICH WITH FRESH INSIGHTS, UNCOMMON WEALTH REMINDS US HOW THE FORGOTTEN STORIES OF EMPIRE AND DECOLONISATION CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR DAILY LIVES IN BRITAIN - AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD - UP TO TODAY' AKALABritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.In Uncommon W ...Show more
Bad News - How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon
$52.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just lib ...Show more
How Civil Wars Start - And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
“When one of the world’s leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book.” - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die. Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's great ...Show more
Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals by Oliver Bullough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'A savage analysis of Britain's soul. As essential as Orwell at his best' - Peter Pomerantsev 'Horribly brilliant' -James O'Brien The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of ...Show more
Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice by David Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The story of how David Hill and the other Forgotten Children took on the the institutions that tried to break them - and won. The Forgotten Children was David Hill's heartbreaking account of the abuse that he and other 'orphans of empire' survived at the Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales. Part ...Show more
The Mystery of the Ghosts of Flight 401 by Kathryn Walker; Brian Innes (Text by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Why would the ghosts of two crewmen who died in a 1972 air crash in the Everglades appear to other aircraft flying the same route? This book tells the stories of the people who believe they have met these ghosts of the airways!