Nature Guide to Gemstones and Minerals of Australia-NOT AVAILABLE AT PRESENT by Lin Sutherland
$24.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Australian Nature Guide S.
This text is an accessible reference and identification guide to all gemstones and minerals found in Australia. The book introduces the reader to the chemical and crystal systems of the stones, before providing detailed descriptions of each stone including composition, structure and distribution.
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
______________________'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics Featured in FT Best Books of the Year 2020______________________The world has finally awoken to the ...Show more
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
$55.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from ...Show more
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In Status Anxiety, bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassme ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'I emerged from this book feeling better about almost everything... a mosaic of faces building into this extraordinary portrait of our species.' Guardian 'The Ten Types of Humanis a fantastic piece of non-fiction, mixing astonishing real-life cases with the latest scientific research to provide a guide ...Show more
Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands by Ben Coates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and br ...Show more
Spanian: The Unfiltered Hood Life by Spanian
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
By the time he was twelve, Spanian knew he would follow his family's footsteps to become a career criminal. What followed was a decade-long string of brazen crimes and brutal violence: stabbings, ram-raids, drug runs and a notorious high school siege. Throughout the Sydney social housing enclaves of Red ...Show more
The Kybalion by Three Initiates
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Cornerstone Editions
Who wrote this mysterious guide to the principles of esoteric psychology and worldly success? History has kept readers guessing...and now, for the first time, seekers everywhere can discover a widely available edition of a guidebook that has been an underground classic for generations. Here are the teac ...Show more
Uncommon Sense Teaching - Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn by Barbara Oakley; Beth Rogowsky; Terrence J. Sejnowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A groundbreaking guide to improve teaching based on the latest research in neuroscience, from the bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers. Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have made enormous strides in understanding the brain and how we learn, but little of that insight has filtered down to the ...Show more
The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage by Joan Chittister
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Beloved nun and social activist Joan Chittister, who appeared on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, offers a soul-stirring and inspiring guide that speaks to all who feel disillusioned and dissatisfied with the power-hungry institutions and systems of this world. Joan Chittister has been a passionate voice ...Show more