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Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World by Aaron Millar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar reveals the greatest wonders of the world and the insider secrets on how to see them at their awe-inspiring best. Featuring selections from around the globe, and a number of new and never-seen-before entries, this compendium of bucket-list experiences is designed ...Show more
Desk Wars: Make Secret Weapons from Stationery with 30 Models to Build Yourself by John Austin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction Ser.
'Cubicle farms are full of enemy combatants begging to be taken out.' WIRED Achieve clandestine ends practically and inexpensively with Desk Wars - perfect for do-it-yourself spy enthusiasts. Follow fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to build 30 miniature secret weapons and surveillance tools ...Show more
Humans by Brandon Stanton
$44.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...Show more
English Language in One Big Fat Notebook (Everything You Need to Ace...) by Workman Workman Publishing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Big Fat Notebook Ser.
Everything You Need To Ace English Language Arts In One Big Fat Notebook takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual analysis, authorship, structure, a ...Show more
Far from Land - The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds by Michael Brooke; Bruce Pearson (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
The lives and activities of seabirds as you've never seen them before Seabirds evoke the spirit of the earth's wildest places. They spend large portions of their lives at sea, often far from land, and nest on remote islands that humans rarely visit. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated and miniaturized ...Show more
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Steve Mockus (Editor); Francis Grose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of our modern day. O ...Show more
The Book Lover's Quiz Book by Gary Wigglesworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General
'Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm' Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, Question Time and many more This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at ...Show more
Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships by Julia Edelman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Reading Level: General Adult
What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder? Love Voltaire Us Apart is a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge, made up of philosophers' love letters, advice columns and breakup letters. From C ...Show more
Veteran Motor Cars by Steve Lanham
$17.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: Shire Library
A concise illustrated history of the earliest cars in Britain up to 1905, and the people who manufactured and drove them. During the late Victorian/early Edwardian period, the development of the motor car represented the peak of technological experimentation. Termed "horseless carriages, these cars were ...Show more
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction - General | Series: The\Making Of Ser.
"Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos"--Mary Shelley In the two hundred years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this compelling and inn ...Show more