We are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama by E. J. Dionne, Jr.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. We Are the Change We Seek is a collection of Barack Obama's 26 greatest addresses: beginning with his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq War and closing with his final speech before ...Show more
Not Just for This Life : Gough Whitlam Remembered by Wendy Guest
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Not Just For This Life is a salute and tribute to Gough Whitlam, commemorating what would have been his 100th birthday. Upon his death in October 2014 there was a national outpouring of grief and affectionate remembrances across the nation. This book includes condolences from politicians of all politica ...Show more
Phillip Adams: Insights and Reflections by Phillip Adams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Phillip Adams, the occasionally controversial but undeniably prolific writer and broadcaster, has collected his favourite insights and reflections from previous columns and speeches in this generous volume spanning 2003 to the present day. Adams social commentary has been a part of the Australian cultur ...Show more
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laborato ...Show more
The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discovery by David L. Mearns
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea.' CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searc ...Show more
Up Until Now by Petrea King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Petrea King is one of those rare Australians who have changed the country for the better.' Richard Glover As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending many years in and out of hospital and undergoing numerous operations. After leaving school at fourteen, she worked as a secretary until ...Show more
A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama by Professor Michael D'Antonio
$54.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Once a most unlikely candidate, Barack Obama s successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and Great Recession discouraged millions of Americans, Obama s promise of hope revived the national sp ...Show more
Tracker by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: STELLA WINNER 2018
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winni ...Show more
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the ...Show more
Albanese: Telling It Straight by Karen Middleton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Anthony Albanese has been at the heart of Labor politics in Australia for a decade. For the previous decade he persistently worked to ensure that the Labor left was a vital part of all ALP activities. This is his story. The turbulent years of federal politics with a deeply personal dimension, this is th ...Show more
Nobu: A Memoir by Nobu Matsuhisa
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
"In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa...shares lessons in humility, gratitude, and empathy that will stick with readers long after they've finished the final chapter." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) A fascinating and unique memoir by the acclaimed celebrity chef and internati ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more