Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran by Jennifer Klinec
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior, someone who didn't come to him pur ...Show more
Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss
$36.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
The natural history of humankind, told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been i ...Show more
Ten Cities that Led the World From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times *** Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cit ...Show more
Ten Days in Harlem - Fidel Castro and the Making of The 1960s by Simon Hall
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.'With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read.'DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review'A lively account . . . Ten Days in ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Changed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to u ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.
Ten Doors Down: The Story of an Extraordinary Adoption Reunion by Robert Tickner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The story of a federal minister's remarkable reunion with his birth parents. Robert Tickner had always known he was adopted, but had rarely felt much curiosity about his origins. Born in 1951, he had a happy childhood - raised by his loving adoptive parents, Bert and Gwen Tickner, in the small seaside ...Show more
Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues One Cop's Extraordinary True Story by Cameron Hardiman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police flight suit, grabbed his flight helmet, and prepared to work on the police helicopter. He could be called to anything during a shift, to search for a missing child, to pull an injured driver fro ...Show more
Ten Hail Marys by Kate Howarth
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Frank and funny, this memoir vividly recounts the first 17 years of the author's life in Sydney's slums and in New South Wales' countryside. Abandoned by her mother as a baby and by her volatile grandmother as a young girl, Kate Howarth was shunted between Aboriginal relatives and expected to grow up fa ...Show more
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our worldSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric ...Show more
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe by Brian Clegg
$44.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences
How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the physical world. Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence ...Show more
Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality by Brian Clegg
$21.99 AUD
$24.99 (12% off)
Category: Physical Sciences
Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting breakthroughs in physics, looking not just at the science, but also the fascinating lives of the scientists ...Show more