| Author: | Stephen Hawking |
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller "A Brief History of Time" remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for readers who have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts--the nature of space and ... read more
| Author: | Jon & Jack Faine |
Somehow, I convinced myself it was a good idea. Somehow, I convinced myself that it was do-able. Now I shake my head...We drove through the Gobi desert in Mongolia in a snowstorm, avoided an Iranian sedan doing cartwheels on the freeway near Tehran, wove around the shores of the Caspian Sea and navigated the desert in Turkmen... read more
| Author: | Daniel Domscheit-Berg |
Inside WikiLeaks: my time at the world's most dangerous website by WikiLeaks defector Daniel Domscheit-Berg, it will be a tell-all account of the operations of WikiLeaks from one of the organisation's highest former figures.
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everythin... read more
| Author: | Judy Nunn |
Tiger Men is the story of Silas Stanford, a wealthy Englishman; Mick O'Callaghan an Irishman on the run; and Jefferson Powell, an idealistic American political prisoner. It is also the story of the strong, proud women who loved them, and of the children they bore who rose to power in the cut-throat world of international trad... read more
| Author: | William McInnes |
William brings the World, or at least Australia, into our backyards as he writes about families and sport and politics and life in his familiar style that makes you feel as if he is sitting down talking to you. Both funny and insightful That'd Be Right is part memoir, part personal history of Australia over the last thirty ye... read more
| Author: | A.B. Facey |
Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a 'fortunate' one. A true classic of Australian l... read more
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
The Eureka Stockade was Australia's answer to the Boston Tea Party, to the French people's storming of the Bastille. It was the moment when the diggers sense of outraged justice united them into a force that changed the course of Australian history. It is the greatest Australian legend outside of war-time, and one that has e... read more
| Author: | David Hill |
On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether the west and east coasts, f... read more
| Author: | Alan Bennett |
It was the corgis' fault. When they strayed through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen discovered the City of Westminster travelling library. The Queen has never had much time for reading - pleasure's always come second place to duty - 'though now that one is here I suppose one ought to borrow a book'. She is about t... read more
| Author: | HAM Paul |
Paul Ham's KOKODA is the bestselling history of the crucial battles in Papua New Guinea that saved Australia from the threat of Japanese attack. In this acclaimed account, Ham describes both sides of the appalling struggle along the Kokoda Track in 1942 when a few badly trained Australian troops confronted the Imperial Japane... read more
| Author: | TENCH Watkin |
Tench, a humble captain-lieutenant of the marines, arrived on the First Fleet, and with his characteristic understanding, humanity and eye for detail, recorded the first four years of European settlement. A classic, lovingly edited by Tim Flannery, author of the bestselling The Future Eaters, Throwim Way Leg and The Weather Makers.
| Author: | Elizabeth Gilbert |
Eat, Pray, Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak. "It's what I'm giving all my girl friends." - Julia Roberts. "If a more likeable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven't found him or her...Gilbert's p... read more
| Author: | Timothy Ferriss |
If your dream is escaping the rat race, high-end world travel, monthly five-figure income with zero management or just living more and working less then this audiobook is the blueprint. Forget your tired, old retirement concepts and throw out that deferred-life plan - there's no need to wait and every reason not to. You can h... read more
11 CDs - read by Ray Porter
| Author: | George Mallory |
George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations. Famously impelled to climb Mount Everest simply because it was there, Mallory made three attempts to be the first to reach its summit, and perished on the third. His writing reveals the emotional life of the mountaineer. With eloquence, Mallory c... read more
| Author: | Richard Dawkins |
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life. In this classic first book, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene... read more