Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch by Yehezkel Dror (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In this iconoclastic book, Dror argues that humanity cascades through a metamorphosis, driven mainly by science and technology. Radical human enhancement, synthesis of viruses, quasi-intelligent robots and molecular engineering illustrate the emerging quantum leap, as do value changes ranging between ma ...Show more
Two Turtle Doves: A Memoir of Making Things by Alex Monroe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Two Turtle Doves is the story of a life spent making things. Growing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled gardens, Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made n ...Show more
Mr. China by Tim Clissold
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet. Part memoir, part parable, Mr. China is one man's coming-of-ag ...Show more
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A daughter of Cambodia remembers.Until age five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of an educated, high-ranking government official. When the Kymer Rouge stormed the city in 1975, the young girl and her family fled from village to village. Fighting to hide their identity, the Ungs eve ...Show more
Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood by Mark Ebner
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In the burgeoning Hollywood club scene, where ecstasy dealers dine alongside celebrities, and illicit money bubbles up from below like the La Brea Tar Pits, a handsome double-murderer and ex-con of refined wit and taste charmed his way into young Hollywood's most elite social circles. Serving as their h ...Show more
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young b ...Show more
Lionheart: Journey of the Human Spirit by Jesse Martin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
The story of Jesse Martin who, at the age of 18, was the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world. A young man who didn't know the meaning of impossible.
The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir by A. M. Homes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to cor ...Show more
Born to Fly by Ryan Campbell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"I will never forget my first flight, the feeling of being pushed back in the seat, the rumbling that suddenly turned into silence. It fascinated me then, it does now." When Ryan Campbell was six, he fell in love with aeroplanes. Inspired by his first flight, and his uncle and grandfather who were both ...Show more
Under Siege by Belinda Neil
$30.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Mira
Belinda Neil lived and breathed her high-octane job. She relished her roles as a homicide investigator and hostage negotiator with the NSW police force, but she never knew what her work day might bring. She could be investigating brutal murders such as the De Gruchy killings or , in her negotiator role, ...Show more
The Friedkin Connection by William Friedkin
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
With such seminal movies as The Exorcist and The French Connection, Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin secured his place as a great filmmaker. But his own success story has the makings of classic American film. He was born in Chicago, the son of Russian immigrants. Immediately after high sc ...Show more
Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh; Gregory White Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power. Now Naifeh and Smith have written another tour de force-an exquisi ...Show more