Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
Sharp : The Definitive Guide to Knives, Knife Care, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes from Great Chefs by Josh Donald; Molly DeCoudreaux (Photographer)
$54.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Sharpis a knife skills class in book form and an introduction to the best knives you can buy from all over the world. From a premier knife purveyor and go-to knives expert, this comprehensive guide details the elements of buying and caring for good knives, including sharpening and knife skills. Step-by- ...Show more
How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marche
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Shakespeare is all around us. From nightclubs to Broadway musicals, in voting booths in the American South and the trees of Central Park - William Shakespeare's literary power is so intense and widespread that it intrudes into the material world. "Esquire" columnist Stephen Marche takes us on a delightf ...Show more
The Shakespeare Almanac by Gregory Doran
$64.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
"The Shakespeare Almanac" is a day by day calendar of Shakespeare's year. It follows the rural farming cycle of lambing to sheep-shearing to harvest home, as they are referred to in Shakespeare's plays and poetry. It lists all the high days and holidays, from Christmas to Easter, Candelmas to Hocktide. ...Show more
Morbid Curiosity by Alan W. Petrucelli
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The strange, startling, disturbing, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths. Death sells. Just about everyone slows down upon passing the scene of a car accident, wanting to look but ashamed of their grim fascination with another's unfortunate end. And when a p ...Show more
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
On The Wealth of Nations by P J O'Rourke
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S. | Reading Level: good
'The Wealth of Nations is, without doubt a 'book that changed the world.' But it has been taking its time. Two hundred and thirty one years after publication, Adam Smith's practical truths are only beginning to be absorbed in full. Although its contents didn't make people gasp, something about The Wealt ...Show more
Shakespeare on Stage : Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles by Julian Curry
$41.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The performers interviewed represent a Who's Who of stage and screen actors (between them they have seventeen Oscar nominations), and range across all generations. They include Judi Dench talking about her acclaimed Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1960 production; Ian McKellen whose Macbeth at the RSC in ...Show more
Nostradamus and the Third Antichrist: Napoleon, Hitler and the One Still to Come by Mario Reading
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Although many people know that Nostradamus prophesied the coming of the three Antichrists allegedly foretold in St John's Epistles (and also, in the guise of the Beast, the Dragon, the False Prophet, and the Whore of Babylon, in Revelation), they don't know who the first two Antichrists were, nor who th ...Show more
Engineers of the Soul by Frank Westerman
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
"Engineers of the Soul" draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as 'engineers of the soul', were encouraged to sing the praises of construction. But the initial enthusiasm of Soviet w ...Show more
The Fix by Damian Thompson
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Obsessed with your iphone/crackberry? Does your day only start when you grip your second morning skinny cappuccino tightly in hand? Are your social life and your nightly large glasses of wine prompted more by habit than by pleasure? Drugs, food, alcohol, sex and technology are all obsessions that consu ...Show more