Birchers - How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and po ...Show more
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsesse ...Show more
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia by Hadley Freeman
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
From Hadley Freeman, the bestselling author of House of Glass, comes her searing and powerful memoir about mental ill health and her experience with anorexia.This is how the Anorexia Speak worked in my head:'Boys like girls with curves on them' - If you ever eat anything you will be mauled by thuggish b ...Show more
Abyss by Pilar Quintana; Lisa Dillman (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner "An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling eventsin this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life fromColombian writer Quintana (TheBitch). Readers will be dazzled." --Publishers ...Show more
May the Tigris Grieve for You by Emilienne Malfatto
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
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