Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero- a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry. Now, renowned historian Felipe Fern indez-Armesto draws on extensive and meticulous research to conduct a dazzli ...Show more
Strange Medicine Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages by Nathan Belofsky
$16.99 AUD
Category: History
Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatmentsand biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behaviour to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true fact ...Show more
Strange Sea Creatures (HB) by Erich Hoyt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History
Praise for Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In "Erich Hoyt captures the excitement and beauty of recent advances in ocean science]. With lavish photos and engaging, accurate prose, he takes readers on a journey of wonder through the ocean's layers and around ...Show more
Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A full-scale investigation of the controversial and often misunderstood science of attachment theory, inspired by the author’s own experience as a parent and daughter. When award-winning editor, writer, researcher, and longtime Zen student Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter, Azalea, she felt lik ...Show more
Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours by Sarah Sentilles
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Sentilles, the ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed author of Draw Your Weapons, returns in 2021 with Stranger Care, a powerful and extraordinary memoir about her experiences adopting a child in America. Sarah and her husband make the decision to adopt, and after several years and an involved proc ...Show more
Stranger Country by Monica Tan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Tracks meets Wild in this account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's 6 month odyssey though outback Australia. 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to ...Show more
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back in the historical picture.Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now k ...Show more
Stranger Planet: The Hilarious Sequel to STRANGE PLANET - Now on Apple TV+ by Nathan W. Pyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Strange Planet, featuring more hilarious and poignant adventures from the fascinating inhabitants of Nathan W. Pyle's colourful world. In this eagerly awaited sequel, Nathan takes us back to his charming and instantly recognisable planet coloure ...Show more
Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', presented by the Royal Danish Library in partnershi ...Show more
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The twentieth century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geo-political narrative that runs through World War One, the great depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more
Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more