Myths & Legends: An illustrated guide to their origins and meanings by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Mountaineers: Great tales of bravery and conquest by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this book tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered. Mountaineersis filled with stirring tales of adventure and intriguing characters, from the Brits who insiste ...Show more
Man on the Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
$26.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'Impressive and illuminating' -Tom Hanks The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 240,000 miles away ...Show more
Climate Change Delusion and the Great Electricity Ripoff by Ian Plimer
$93.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
How did one of the worlds largest exporters of coal, gas and uranium end up with unreliable and expensive energy? Massive subsidies for renewable energy, gaming of the electricity market and government mandates have closed coal-fired generators that previously provided cheap reliable electricity. Five h ...Show more
Apollo 11 : The Inside Story by David Whitehouse
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: WHITEHOUSE DAVID
Informed by extensive interviews with astronauts such as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, David Scott, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charlie Duke, Al Bean, Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, Walt Cunningham, Tom Stafford, Dick Gordon, John Glenn, Pete Conrad, Edgar Mitchel, James Irwin, Stu Roosa, Ron Evans ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger Hotter Smarter World by Amanda Little
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-con ...Show more
Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting- on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship ...Show more
Novacene: Coming Age by James Lovelock
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. ...Show more
How Philosophy Works: The concepts visually explained by DK
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, and exploring all of the most important branches of thought including philosophy of science, philosophy of religion and feminist philosophy in a uniquely visual way, this book is the perfect introduction to the history of philosophy. A cle ...Show more
The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab by Carl Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019** THE OLD GODS ARE DYING. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots batt ...Show more
Taking on Gravity by Richard Browning
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
For readers of Adrian Newey's How to Build a Car and Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet suit, and shares his creative principles for generating true innovation. From Icarus to Iron Man, th ...Show more