Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat by Andrew Brown
$35.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Joseph Rotblat's life poses deep and important questions about conscience, science and society. This biography presents the full story, from his childhood lived out under anti-Semitism, family tragedy at the hands of the Nazis; work on Britain's nuclear programme; and his single-minded dedication to nuc ...Show more
And Then Life Happens: A Sister's Memoir by Auma Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
While her younger brother Barack grew up in the US and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which ...Show more
Extreme South by James Castrission
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
On 31 October 2011 James Castrission and Justin Jones set out to achieve 'one of the last great polar adventures' - an unsupported return journey from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole. This is a quest that has been attempted by many experienced polar explorers before them...and all ...Show more
Gough Whitlam: His Time by Jenny Hocking
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Recreates the excitement of Whitlam's historic win in 1972, forces that never accepted his ascendency &the tragedy that followed. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, interviews with family, colleague sand with the man himself, this second volume finally exposes the truth about the Whitla ...Show more
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The deeply moving memoir of a child with an unbreakable spirit. The house on Mary Street, Carson City, Nevada is the only place five-year-old Jennifer Lauck will ever call home. It's where the sky is deep blue, forever blue, and there are almost never any clouds up there. It's where Jennifer lives wi ...Show more
Drink Smoke Pass Out by Judith Lucy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey takes us on Judith's path from being a child so Catholic that she wanted to be a nun, to a genuinely curious adult looking for meaning - via atheism, advanced yoga, astral travel and a whole lot more. Based on the popular ABC television series of the same name, this book ...Show more
Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss and Moving Forward by Lisa Niemi Swayze
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on. It didn't take long for them to fall in love. Their thirty-four year marriage -- which they explored together in ...Show more
Not Your Ordinary Housewife: How the Man I Loved Led Me into a World I Had Never Imagined by Nikki Stern
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
How does a young girl, educated at Melbourne's exclusive MLC, with degrees in Science and Design, become Australia's best-known porn star - The Horny Housewife? Nikki Stern had a very privileged start in life. Her father was in Who's Who and her mother was once a famous ballerina. Having graduated from ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1967, after a session with a doctor she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital that was as renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, ...Show more
The Still Point of the Turning World: A Mother's Story by Emily Rapp
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, level-headed but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and gi ...Show more
Waging Peace by Anne Deveson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of experiences in public and private life to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace. Deveson tells of ...Show more
One Crowded Hour - Neil Davis, Combat Camerman 1934-1985 by Tim Bowden
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
One Crowded Hour is the bestselling biography of one of the world's greatest combat cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. First published in 1987, One Crowded Hour remains a must-read for aspiring photographers, cinematographers, journalists and war buffs. For over twenty years, from the early ...Show more