December 2007 Non-Fiction
On Deep History And The Brain
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Univ California Pr )
Until the 1860s, the question of where history began was a comfortable certainty: with the story of the Garden of Eden, and the creation of man. The revolution that Darwin’s theories brought about ushered in a new era, i... More »
How To Raise A Jewish Dog
$22.95 (Paperback book / Little Brown )
Everything a dog owner needs to know to nurture a canine companion with both an exaggerated sense of his own wonderfulness and paralyzing self doubt, this text bursts with sage practical advice distilled from decades of ... More »
The Art Of Ageing
$29.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now, in The Art of Ageing, Dr Nuland steps back to explore the impact of ageing on our minds and bodies, strivings a... More »
Gonzo: The Life Of Hunter S Thompson
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
Few American lives are stranger or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channelling his energy into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his p... More »
Memories, Dreams And Reflections
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Fourth Estate )
'On stage I may seem Athena in her breastplate but visitors arriving backstage find this wuzzly little person. There's a paradox between that person and the Marianne Faithfull marionette that I manipulate, groom, dress u... More »
It's Not My Fault They Print Them
$19.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
Each week in the pages of the Age, Catherine Deveny tackles the big issues of modern life with hilarity and passion and in her own inimitable style. From 4WD owners to Nick Giannopolous to women who take their husband’s ... More »
Machiavelli: Eminent Lives
$30.00 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's handbook on power - how to get it and how to keep it - has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt.... More »
Portraits And Observations The Essays Of Truman Capote
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Random Century )
Perhaps no twentieth century writer was so observant and elegant a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Whether he was profiling the rich and famous or creating indelible word-pictures of events and places near and ... More »
Australian Classics
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
In her acclaimed Classics: Books for Life Jane Gleeson-White made a heartfelt call to 'read for life', and an invaluable literary excavation into our reading past to rediscover the great masterpieces that move and inspir... More »
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Rudolf Nureyev
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin )
In this authorized biography using many never-before-seen papers and letters and unprecedented interviews with dancers, family, friends and lovers, Julie Kavanagh tells how the little boy who was born on a train in Siber... More »
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From Americas Class War
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
When Joe Bageant returned to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, he rediscovered his redneck roots: ‘the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks’. But he soon... More »
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The End Of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
$24.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
In this timely call to arms, best-selling author Naomi Wolf argues that political freedom in America is under assault. She warns — with the straight-to-fellow-citizens urgency of one of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamph... More »
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The New Spirit Of Capitalism
$80.00 (Paperback book / Verso )
A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Wh... More »
Israel Lobby And U.S. Foreign Policy
$41.95 (Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro )
Mearsheimer and Walt have finally said what has been clear to many for years: there is something deeply worrying about the Israel lobby's influence on US foreign policy. By encouraging unconditional US support for Israel... More »
The First Day of The Blitz
$27.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
On September 7, 1940, the long-feared and anticipated attack by the German Luftwaffe plunged London into a cauldron of fire and devastation. This compelling book recreates that day in all its horror, using rich archival ... More »
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Whisperers: Private Life In Stalin's Russia
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
One in eight people in the Soviet Union were victims of Stalin's terror—virtually no family was untouched by purges, the gulag, forced collectivization and resettlement, says Figes in this nuanced, highly textured look a... More »
World War One: A Short History
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
In 1914 dynamic, prosperous countries across Europe at last mobilized the vast armies they had spent so many years preparing. Each nation was confident of victory. Instead Europe destroyed itself. The First World War, or... More »
Gods Architect: Pugin And The Building Of Romantic Britain
$69.95$24.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at... More »
Summits: Six Meetings That Changed History
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
'It is not easy to see how matters could be worsened by a parley at the summit.' Winston Churchill coined the term in 1950 but the temptation of summitry has been around for centuries. In this incisive and readable book,... More »
The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
$22.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
With the gleeful, viperish wit of Dorothy Parker (Slate), Kipnis offers a fresh and provocative assessment of the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance towards se... More »
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The Emergence Of Memory: Conversations With W G Sebald
$44.00 (Hardcover book / Seven Stories Press )
A portrait in conversations and critical writing of one of the towering literary figures of our times. When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss... More »
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Darwin's Angel
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Profile )
The God Delusion is a clarion call to the faithless, the waverers, and even firm religious believers, to follow the author into radical atheism not merely as a private conviction but as a public profession. Wouldn't huma... More »
The Art Of Simple Food
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Clarkson Potter Pubs )
Perhaps more responsible than anyone for the revolution in the way we eat, cook, and think about food, Alice Waters has "single-handedly chang[ed] the American palate" according to the New York Times. Her simple but inve... More »
No Reservations: Around The World On An Empty Stomach
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
No Reservations is Anthony Bourdain's fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels throughout the world. From China to Argentina and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and oddball mem... More »
The Painter, the Cook and the Art Of Cucina
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Hodder Headline )
This is a visually stunning book that takes you on a gastronomic journey revealing the products, the produce and the cooking of six regions in Italy - Piedmont, Veneto, Liguria, Le Marche, Puglia and Sardinia. Anna Del C... More »
La Nonna: Recipes From My Italian Grandmother
$29.95 (Paperback book / New Holland Pub )
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Rosehips And Crabapples
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Lantern Books )
*Gardens are full of memories - of places, of plants, of people, of beauty created and shared, beauty which can be relived and enjoyed again years later. In a mostly incomprehensible world, a world increasingly dominated... More »
Daring Book For Girls
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know - and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship b... More »
Latin Love Lessons Put A Little Ovid In Your Life
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Short Books )
It wasn't just under-floor heating, hot baths and roads that the
Romans did first and best ...
Remember Latin translation? All those arrows and ramparts, and
centurions forever striking camp ... Let's cut straight to th... More »
How We Met True Confessions Of Love Lust And That Fateful First Meeting
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
How We Met celebrates the surprising, sweet, funny and downright weird ways in which people have found love.
Join a who's who of writers as they share their sometimes romantic, sometimes bittersweet true stories of findi... More »
Modernism: The Lure Of Heresy
$55.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
National Book Award–winning historian Peter Gay traces the rise of Modernism, the cultural movement that shaped the Western world.
In Peter Gay’s long-awaited work, his most ambitious undertaking since his seminal biog... More »
Moral Minds
$25.95 (Paperback book / Ecco Press )
Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong ind... More »
Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
$24.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry and societal practices. Does death change, and if it does, how has it changed in the last centu... More »
Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
$38.95 (Paperback book / Dutton )
If someone you love is diagnosed with autism Louder than Words is the first book you should read. One morning, Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old ... More »
Kouta: Boy In Blue
$34.95 (Hardcover book / Hardie Grant )
Beginning his AFL career in 1992, Kouta quickly established himself
as one of the most versatile and athletic players ever to play the
game. Of Greek and Northern Italian heritage, Koutoufides made an
early choice to sw... More »
The Annotated Hans Christian Anderson
$47.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark’s “perfect wizard” and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. An... More »
The Annotated Secret Garden
$47.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )
Frances Hodgson Burnett was famous in her time for her adult novels and her forays into children’s literature with Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. The Secret Garden, her story of an orphan girl who moves ... More »
The Spirit Of Secular Art
$49.95 (Paperback book / Sydney University Pr )
The Spirit of Secular Art explains the spiritual prestige of art. Various theorists have discussed how art has an aura or indefinable magic. This book explains how, when and why it gained its spiritual properties. The id... More »
Calder Jewelry
$109.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
Alexander Calder’s jewelry has the same linear yet three-dimensional quality as his famous mobiles, and the parts that comprise each piece are hammered, shaped, and composed in a fashion that echoes the artist’s creation... More »
Parisiennes
$79.95 (Hardcover book / Flammarion )
All of the great French photographers from the late 1930s through to the 1960s are featured in this book, including Robert Doisneau, Brassaï, Willy Ronis, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Edouard Boubat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier... More »
Shaolin Temple Of Zen
$65.00 (Hardcover book / Aperture )
For the first time in history, the notoriously guarded warrior monks of the 1500-year-old Shaolin Temple – a Chinese Buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu known as the ‘vehicle of Zen’ – have allowed th... More »
