A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned and placed in the 'care' of sadistic foster parents. But there comes a point in her preteen years maybe it's the night she first tries to run away and is exposed to drugs, alcohol, and sex al ...Show more
Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession by James Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Redback Ser.
"A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might ...Show more
Where is Daniel? by Bruce Morcombe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
On 7 December 2003 Daniel Morcombe disappeared on the Sunshine Coast, while waiting for a bus. For Bruce and Denise Morcombe - the parents of Daniel - and his brothers, Bradley and Dean, it was apparent within hours that something was very wrong. In the first few days following Daniel's disappearance, B ...Show more
Dark Emu Black Seeds Agriculture or Accident? by Bruce Pascoe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: Scholarly/Graduate
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the ...Show more
The History of Rock in 50 Guitars by Bruce Wexler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Popular music in the 1920s called out for a guitar sound that was more dominant. Early experiments with steel cones or resonators, Hawaiian electric guitars and the first Electric Spanish style 6-string guitar in 1936 made musicians suddenly realise that it was possible to produce notes that could be am ...Show more
Descent Into Hell by Peter Brune
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the ...Show more
The Benevolent Bee by Stephanie Bruneau
$29.99 AUD
Category: NON FICTION
Get the buzz on bees, honey, hive behavior, and all the things you can make with bee products in The Benevolent Bee. A honeybee hive produces much more than honey; it also produces pollen, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, and bee venom. And humans have found uses for all these products. The Benevolent Be ...Show more
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins
$38.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a great nation lost its way by Nick Bryant
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A forensic look at the Lucky Country, from the inside and outside. Never before has Australia enjoyed such economic, commercial, diplomatic and cultural clout. Its recession-proof economy is the envy of the world. It's the planet's great lifestyle superpower. Its artistic exports win unprecedented accla ...Show more
Reaching for the Canopy: A Zoo-Born Orangutan's Journey Back to the Wild by Kylie Bullo
$22.99 AUD
Category: NON FICTION
"Temara had done her species proud and proven that captive orangutans do have a place in the jungle of tomorrow. I felt honoured that I was by her side during the first part of her remarkable world-first journey." In 2006, Kylie Bullo and her colleagues at Perth Zoo were part of a bold, groundbreaking e ...Show more
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
For more than two thousand years the world's great minds have argued about the true essence of time. Is it finite or infinite? Is it continuous or discrete? Does it flow like a river or is it granular, proceeding in small bits like sand trickling through an hourglass? And most immediately, what is the p ...Show more
Green Bans, Red Union: The Saving of a City by Meredith Burgmann
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Revised edition of a landmark book. At the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider communi ...Show more