Daring to Drive: The Young Saudi Woman Who Stood Up to a Kingdom of Men by Manal Al-Sharif
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN.THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME A GLOBAL FIGUREHEAD OF A CAUSE THAT DREW THE ATTENTION OF GLOBAL LEADERS WHO URGED THE [SAUDI] KINGDOM TO OVERTURN THE BAN' ON WOMEN DRIVING. 'Future generations will marvel at M ...Show more
Airbnb for Property Investors: How I Made 6 Figures in 6 Months and How You Can Too... by Aly Michaels
$29.95 AUD
Category: Business
People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West by Waleed Aly
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
No two civilisations have spoken so many words about each other in recent years as those of Islam and the West. And no two seem to have communicated less. People Like Us confronts the themes that define this chasm head-on: women, jihad, secularism, terrorism, reformation and modernity. Its piercing exam ...Show more
Sophia : Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistib ...Show more
Psychology Essential Thinkers, Classic Theories, and How They Inform Your World by Andrea Bonoir
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: General Adult
Why is eyewitness testimony sometimes misleading? How does evolution explain what qualities people seek in online dating partners? These questions and many more are addressed in a convincing, thorough, and funny overview of why we are the way we are. --Dave Haaga, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor o ...Show more
Where's Ringo?: The Story of the Beatles in 20 Visual Puzzles by Andrew Grant Jackson
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Category: Music Biography
Ringo has got lost! And YOU must find him. An album-sized hide-and-seek caper through the story of the Beatles, Where's Ringo? features 20 fantastically intricate original artworks inspired by key periods in the Fab Four's evolution. Throughout, the ever-present Ringo Starr has been cleverly hidden for ...Show more
Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State by Andrew Hosken
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Category: Current Affairs
In June 2014 Islamic State launched an astonishing blitzkrieg which saw them seize control of an area in the Middle East the size of Britain. The news was soon filled with their relentless acts of savagery, yet nobody seemed to know who they were or where they'd come from. Now BBC reporter Andrew Hosken ...Show more
17 Carnations - The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up by Andrew Morton
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication in order to marry the divorcee, has provoked fascination and discussion for decades. However, the full story of the couple's links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has until now remained untold. Meticulous ...Show more
A Clash of Thrones: The Power-Crazed Medieval Kings, Popes and Emperors of Europe by Andrew Rawson
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Category: History
An approachable and engaging account of 450 years of savagery, treachery, triumph, and disaster Starting with the Great Schism in 1053 and ending with the discovery of the New World in 1492, A Clash of Thrones shows how kings relied on military campaigns and political intrigue while the Popes exploite ...Show more
Madness in Civilisation by Andrew Scull
$45.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to me ...Show more
The Bookshop Strikes Back by Ann Patchett
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A beautifully written essay... a celebration of local bookshops.