The Soul: A History of the Human Mind by Paul Ham
49.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was p ...Show more
Mental State: The insanity of Australia's mental health system - and how to fix it, from the bestselling author of ANXIETY and CHANGING MINDS by Dr Mark Cross
35.99 AUD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing both patients and professionals. What he h ...Show more
Telling Lives: The Seymour Biography Lecture 2005-2023 by Chris Wallace (Editor)
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
'What we now want from a biography, or autobiography, is the very thing that Virginia Woolf said that we have no right to want: art. Not only art, obviously, but art nevertheless. And we love the illumination of dark corners of the soul, having quite a few of our own, if we're honest with ourselves. - ...Show more
Townsend of the Ranges by Peter Crowley
36.99 AUD
Category: NLA Publications
Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (18121869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country's second highest mountain, but the details of his career are obscure and his personal identity has remained a mystery. Yet, if you live in southern New ...Show more
Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance With America by Yves Rees
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk. A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing s ...Show more
A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid-Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki-evolve into the wildly eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, little Karl was wildly idiosyncratic from the get go. In the sixties, he roasted raw chickens on the ta ...Show more
Angeball: The Definitive Biography of Ange Postecoglou by Vince Rugari
34.99 AUD
Category: Sport
"In the ever-evolving landscape of Australian football, few figures loom as large as Ange Postecoglou. In this authorised biography, Australia's foremost football journalist Vince Rugari charts the rise of this maverick mastermind and examines his complicated relationship with the game Down Under. Emigr ...Show more
Three Wild Dogs and the Truth (HB) by Markus Zusak
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, ...Show more
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently? It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane. But almost all of them will be changed forever. Because on this ordinary fl ...Show more
Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People by Darren Rix, Craig Cormick
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. We know the Eur ...Show more
The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher has uncovered the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the jour ...Show more
The First Friend by Malcolm Knox
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A tour de force set in 1938 Stalin Soviet Union, this chilling black comedy it is at once a satire and a thriller, a survivor's tale in which a father has to walk a tightrope every day to save his family from a monster and a monstrous society. 'Crackling with energy, irony, wit and terror, The First F ...Show more