Australian Backyard Astronomy by Ragbir Bhathal; Jenny Bhathal
$24.95 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Written by award-winning writer and astrophysicist Dr Ragbir Bhathal and his daughter Jenny Bhathal, this book reveals Australia's Aboriginal and European night-sky heritage to children from their own backyards, recommended for ages 10-14 years. Discover the stories of the heavens and our understanding ...Show more
Human Universe by Andrew Cohen; Brian Cox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live. Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extr ...Show more
Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand lives for themselves that will bring them out of the long shadow cast by their father's death and their overbearing mother's bullying. Maxine is just shy of ...Show more
Depends What You Mean By Extremist by John Safran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more
Journey of a Thousand Storms: A Refugee's story by Kooshyar Karimi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service.Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts. Marginalised since boyhood as a Jew in a fundamentalist Islamic state, he was a mem ...Show more
The Optimistic Child by Martin Seligman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Family and Parenting
"A proven program to safeguard children against depression and build lifelong resilience. In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link ...Show more
Where Hummingbirds Dance by Susi Prescott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Susi Prescott had it all. A large, busy family, a school teaching job she loved, a home on Sydney's leafy North Shore. But with the sudden demise of her thirty-year marriage, her world crumbles. To everyone's surprise, especially her own, Susi makes a momentous decision. She packs up her former life an ...Show more
Letters of Love by Alannah & Madeline Foundation, The (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: UNDER "A" IN NONFICTION
The Port Arthur massacre was one of the darkest days in Australian history. But the response, an unprecedented outpouring of love and compassion, also brought out the best in Australians. One year after that tragedy, Walter Mikac launched the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, in honour of his two young d ...Show more
The Urban Farmer: How to Create a Productive Garden in Any Space by Justin Calverley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Gardening
The guide for anyone who dreams of living the country life in the city by growing their own healthy, sustainable fruit and veg - and more! Producing our own fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs and honey is perfectly possible in a suburban space, and this practical guide will help urban dwellers develop a mor ...Show more
And then I found me by Noel Tovey
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Noel Tovey’s previous memoir, Little Black Bastard ( Hodder Headline Australia 2004, shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous Writing, Australian Human Rights Award) chronicled his extraordinary life – from a childhood lived in poverty, through to his international stage career, return to Au ...Show more
Cruden Farm Garden Diaries (HB) by Michael Morrison; Lisa Clausen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography /Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Cruden Farm was given to the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in 1928 as a wedding present from her husband Sir Keith Murdoch. The farm at Langwarrin, about 50 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, was a place she cherished throughout her long life. The beautiful garden she created there with gardener Michael ...Show more