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Fire Flood Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Houses by the Sea by ed
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture
Through exquisite photography and detailed architectural plans and sketches, this big volume explores how top architectural firms have met the challenges of contemporary waterside living. See how architects take full advantage of the site, its sprawling view and overcome all terrain constraints in this ...Show more
Life & Adventures Of William Buckley by John Morgan; Tim Flannery (ed.)
$25.95 AUD
Category: AUSTRALIANA
'At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke no ...Show more
Meaner Than Fiction: Powerful Australian True Crime Stories of Failed Justice by Lindy Cameron (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
A fascinating yet unsettling look at the Australian justice system, one that many believe is a system to be trusted and relied on to convict the guilty and free the innocent. Not so, according to the true crime stories in this book.
The Arabian Nights - Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 3 719-1001 by Robert Irwin (ed.)
$19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: The Arabian Nights 3 | Reading Level: near fine
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled ...Show more
The House of Islam by Ed Husain
$29.99 AUD
Category: HISTORY
'Not just timely but important too. Ed Husain does not just set out the fundamentals of Islam as a religion but explains how and why understanding it properly matter. This should be compulsory reading' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads A fascinating and revelatory exploration of the intricacies ...Show more
The Lost Boys: Inside Football's Slave Trade by Ed Hawkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade - the beautiful game turned ugly. Talent-spotted by scouts, these kid ...Show more
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West by Sogyal Rinpoche (ed Patrick Gaffney & Andrew Harvey)
$29.99 AUD
Category: PHILOSOPHY
'What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at death and care for the dying and the whole way we look at life, and care for the living'. Written by Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book c ...Show more
Vampirea: Encounters With The Undead by Skal David (ed)
$24.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
This is the biggest book on vampires ever published! Now it is available in a chunky paperback edition! Both fictional and factual accounts reveal the eerie and fascinating world of the undead. Noted vampire authority and author, David J. Skal adds a running commentary on the evolution of the vampire my ...Show more
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