The Drinker of Horizons - A Novel by Mia Couto; David Brookshaw (Translator)
$54.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Sands of the Emperor Ser.
The scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize-winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy. "[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique's antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its d ...Show more
The Battle for Your Brain - Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A. Farahany
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suf ...Show more
The Everything Blueprint - Processing Power, Politics, and the Microchip Design That Conquered the World by James Ashton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all. 'A gripping and inspiring read.' Sir James Dyson 'A revealing and insightful biography of the company whose blueprints define the digital world.' Chris Miller, author of CHIP WAR: The Fight ...Show more
A Stranger in Your Own City - Travels in the Middle East's Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
$60.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of Iraq...Driven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahad...offers an overdue reckoning with a broken history."-- ...Show more
The Inheritors - An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced. Dipuo, who grew up ...Show more
The Dean of Shandong - Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. Bell
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University--the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. ...Show more
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
***Chosen as a 2023 non-fiction highlight in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Tablet and Irish Times***While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for ...Show more
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists. Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in mi ...Show more
The Rise of Corporate Feminism - Women in the American Office, 1960-1990 by Allison Elias
$57.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U. S. Capitalism Ser.
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to represent th ...Show more
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change by Simon Sharpe
$38.00 AUD
Category: Climate
We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and ins ...Show more
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers by Ben Jacob
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
TEN YEARS AGO, BEN JACOB TURNED OUTLAW TO SAVE OUR RAREST FLOWERS. THIS IS HIS STORY.Obsessed by orchids since childhood, Ben spent years travelling to far-flung jungles to see them in the wild. Then a chance encounter set him off on a journey of discovery into the wonderful, but often forgotten, world ...Show more