Written in the Sky by Mark Carr
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military History
This 'techno-biography' is written for those who, like him, have hydraulic oil flowing through their veins. However also gives readers of a non-flying background an insight into military and civil aviation. Sit in the cockpit with Mark and gain a rare insight into how these amazing machines, that we now ...Show more
Written Lives by Javier Marias
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling "A Heart So White", throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo o ...Show more
Wylie: The Dog That Never Gave Up by Pen Farthing
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'When people gave up on Wylie, Wylie refused to give up on people.' For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to be crowned top dog at Scruffts, a competition for crossbreeds held during Crufts, the largest dog show on earth, is nothing short of a miracle. But for Wylie, the gentle, cr ...Show more
X and WHY: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters by Tom Whipple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Were we ever designed to be a monogamous species?Is it true that all women are bisexual?Is testosterone to blame for making men monsters? This is a book about the place where biology meets behaviour - and where sexual differences in our bodies most closely translate into gender differences in the mind.I ...Show more
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing. Michael Scott celebrates the fusion of scholarship and adventure in a book full of both.' DAN SNOWUncovering the physical remains of our past is a quintessential human itch; the pursuit of every society from the ancients through to today. But the stori ...Show more
X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain and were interned as 'enemy aliens'. In 1942, they were selected and trained to form a special unit of commandoes who would be sent back into Europe to play a signific ...Show more
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Larry Hedrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business
In 1906, a stilted English translation of "Xenophon of Athens", story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of history's most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging. Among his many achievements, this great leader o ...Show more
Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
A timely political primer on Xi Jinping by acclaimed author and academic, Professor Kerry Brown.
Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery by Tohby Riddle
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Luminous images, accompanied by newspaper extracts dating back to the early 1800s and words by Ngiyampaa Elder, Peter Williams, explore the ongoing mystery of yahoo encounters. 'He was surprised to observe a hairy human form, about seven feet in height, walking in the bush.' Queanbeyan Age, 24 August 18 ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
"Frank, fearless, funny, articulate and inspiring, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a dynamo, a young Muslim dynamo offering a bracing breath of fresh air - and hope. At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Austr ...Show more
Yassmin's Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
At 21, Yassmin found herself working on a remote Australian oil and gas rig; she was the only woman and certainly the only Sudanese-Egyptian-Australian-with-some-Turkish-and-Moroccan-background Muslim woman. With her hijab quickly christened a "tea cosy" there could not be a more unlikely place on earth ...Show more