Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy by Stephen Mumford (Durham University, UK)
$21.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
I firmly believed there was a world outside of our own minds . . . But all around me were challenges. . . . How could we be so sure there were such things existing apart from us? Philosopher Benedict Chilwell faces a crisis of confidence and hopes to resolve it in a self-imposed exile, far away in the n ...Show more
Australian Midwives by Paula Heelan
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Mira Ser.
Like Beth McCrae's bestselling Outback Midwife, these real-life stories come from Australian midwives working in the outback, where they share their experiences of that most commonplace but miraculous event, the birth of a child. Sweet, funny and sometimes sad, these stories share what it is to be an A ...Show more
Good Dog - True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty by Garden & Gun Editors; David DiBenedetto
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
When Garden & Gun magazine debuted a column aptly named "Good Dog," it quickly became one of the publication's most popular features in print. Now, Editor in Chief David DiBenedetto (proud owner of a Boykin spaniel) and the editors of G&G have gathered the most memorable stories, as well as orig ...Show more
Survival in Auschwitz by Levi
$19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: U Ser. | Reading Level: good
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race, " was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. "Survival in Auschwitz" is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruel ...Show more
Doors by Greil Marcus
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morris ...Show more
NostradamusHow an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom by Stéphane Gerson
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
WE ALL KNOW THE NAME NOSTRADAMUS, BUT WHO WAS HE REALLY? WHY DID HIS PREDICTIONS BECOME SO INFLUENTIAL IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE AND THEN KEEP RESURFACING FOR NEARLY FIVE CENTURIES? AND WHAT DOES NOSTRADAMUS'S ENDURANCE IN THE WEST SAY ABOUT US AND OUR OWN WORLD? In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance A ...Show more
I am Melba by Ann Blainey
$28.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.Within a few y ...Show more
Blasphemy by Asia Bibi
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, ...Show more
Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
$39.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest and most sustained creator. In this dazzlin ...Show more
The Trip: Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure by Deborah Davis
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
"From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey - and the numerous artists and celebrities he encountered - profoundly affected his life and art"--
The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power by Kim Ghattas
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world - and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her ento ...Show more
Origin Story - A Big History of Everything by David Christian
$35.00 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: good-very good
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more