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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain
What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, how we were brought up and educated, the jobs we've...
The Path Of Subud
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; price clipped. Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Yellowed, glue residue on endpapers. Markings: No markings. Binding condition:...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Hussein
A glittering adventure set in India at the height of the British Raj. The New York Times compared Patrick O'Brian's early novel to Kipling's Kim and called it "a gorgeous...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....
God: A Human History
$15.00 AUD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The acclaimed author of Zealot examines humanity's quest to make sense of the divine in this "timely, riveting, enlightening, and necessary" ( HuffPost ) history...
Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian
What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? What is it like to be a twelve-year-old...
Ninja: The (Unofficial) Secret Manual
The ninja, Japan's famous black-clad spies and assassins renowned for their superb martial arts skills, are the stuff of legend, their shadowy dealings inspiring countless tales in Japanese folklore. No...
The Affair Of The Poisons: Louis Xiv, Madame De Montespan, And One Of History's Great Unsolved Mysteries
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the glittering but treacherous court of Louis XIV, the Sun King whose absolute power cast long shadows over seventeenth-century France, a web of...
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's
The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the...
CHERUB: Divine Madness: Book 5
The fifth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! James and his fellow cherubs infiltrate an Australian cult, in the most exciting CHERUB story yet. CHERUB exists for the...
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security...
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe...
Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered
The inside story of how the credit crunch unfolded by the first journalist to predict it. Falling house prices. Rising energy and food prices. Job losses. Paralysis over whether interest...
Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
One morning in 1994, two men in a stolen car skid to a halt in front of Norway s National Gallery. Minutes later, they roar off with Edvard Munch's iconic,...
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit
Scaldingly honest, impeccably researched and movingly written, 'MAXED OUT' is, as 'FAST FOOD NATION' was to the food industry, the book the captains of the debt industry wish you would...
Madeline and the Old House in Paris
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines . . . In an old house in Paris that was...
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
The Superclass - politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders - is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress...
Paintings And Statues From The Collection Of President Sukarno Of The Republic Of Indonesia: Volume I
$140.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew collections in the twentieth century rival the breadth and ambition of the one assembled by Indonesia's founding president — a man...
The Evolving Brain: A 'fascinating, accessible' guide to thriving in a
Neurologist and neuroscientist Dr Paul Goldsmith reveals compassionate, practical insights on the evolutionary origins of our brain and how we can best use it to thrive in our daily lives....
DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia
The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012 We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating...
Paintings And Statues From The Collection Of President Sukarno Of The Republic Of Indonesia: Volume Iv
$140.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: worn dj repaired with tapesOne of the most remarkable art collections ever assembled by a head of state, Paintings and...
Beast Quest: Makroxa the Tunnelling Terror: Series 32 Book 3
Rafe and the rest of the New Protectors are facing their greatest challenge yet. The wizard Daltec has been struck down by a magical curse, and the land of Tangala...
When We Ruled: 'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes
'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling...
Spain, Third Edition: The Root and the Flower: An Interpretation of
This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and...
Evil Relations (formerly published as Witness): The Man Who Bore
The chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial gives his account of the case after more than four decades of silence The chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders...
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Missing Masterpiece
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have made it to the magical streets of Paris, baking a spectacular gingerbread Eiffel Tower for a VERY important art exhibition at 'Galerie Bonbon'. But...
Lasher: Lives of the Mayfair Witches
'Erotic... Eerie... Horrifying... A tight tale of the occult in present-day New Orleans' - Denver Post SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD...
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes
The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause...
Helen Mirren: The Biography of Britain's Greatest Actress
She is one of the best-loved and most highly respected actresses in the world today. A talent that Britain is truly proud of, Dame Helen Mirren is a chameleon of...
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting
Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as...
Tell Your Own Story: Pick a new story again and again!
Join in and choose your own story in this interactive picture book! If you could choose your own story, what story would you tell? Join in and read along in...
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums. But all this came at a cost. From the Napoleonic campaigns...