829 Results: New & Used in Nonfiction Books in Alphington 3078, VIC (Page 3 of 35)

Crimes Against Humanity – Geoffrey Robertson QC Good Condition Paperback 759 pages Publisher: Penguin 2006 GoodReads Description: A revised and updated edition of Geoffrey Robertson's impassioned, this is an authoritative guide to an issue of massive global importance. He tells the dramatic story of how the human rights idea has come to dominate world politics. He reveals how human rights has penetrated the legal armour of the sovereign State. He sets out, without legal jargon, the rights

Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWS – Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer Like New Condition Hardcover 438 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster 2012 GoodReads Description: On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded & recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, t

War – Sebastian Junger Like New Condition Hardcover 286 pages Publisher: Fourth Estate 2010 GoodReads Description: In his breakout bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger created "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, Junger turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat--the fear, the honour, and the trust among men in an extreme situ

Aunty's Jubilee: Celebrating 50 Years of ABC TV – Tim Bowden Very Good Condition Hardcover 788 pages Publisher: Twelve – ABC Books 2006 Goodreads description: From its (at times) not-so-smooth launch in November 1956 from a studio in Kings Cross, some of the best-loved, most iconic programs in Australian memory have been seen on the ABC. Here are some memories you are sure to remember, some so vividly that it will seem like yesterday that you watched them - although it may have been 20 yea

Redeemable: A Memoir of Darkness and Hopes – Erwin James Like New Condition Hardcover 344 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury 2016 Booko description: Born in Somerset in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home and subject to the whims of various caregivers after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His teenage and early adult years were spent drifting, a

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World – Jeff Goodell Like New Condition Hardcover 340 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company 2017 Booko description: What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic ci

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity – Carlo Rovelli Like New Condition Hardcover 280 pages Publisher: Riverhead Books 2017 Goodreads description: From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of

Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl – Svetlana Alexievich Like New Condition Paperback 294 pages Publisher: Penguin Books 2013 Goodreads description: A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015 On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried

Goodreads description: Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on ideological rivalries between great powers but rather on issues of class, religion and resources. The genocides of the last century have taught us how quickly social problems can spill over into radical and deadly solutions. Rich c

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions – Randall Munroe Like New Condition Hardcover 303 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014 Goodreads description: Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate

The Essential Chomsky: Noam Chomsky – Anthony Arnove (ed.) Like New Condition Paperback 515 pages Publisher: The Bodley Head 2008 Goodreads description: One of the world's most prominent public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky has, in more than fifty years of writing on politics, philosophy, and language, revolutionised modern linguistics and established himself as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. The Essential Chomsky brings together selections

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values – Sam Harris Like New Condition Hardcover 291 pages Publisher: Bantam Press 2010 Goodreads description: Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address que

Machine Rules: A Political Primer – Stephen Loosley Like New Condition Paperback 210 pages Publisher: Melbourne University Press 2015 Booko description: 'Does a powerbroker like Stephen Loosley ever leave the political world? In his tell-all memoir he writes about defending the indefensible, the best way to start and kill off rumours, the value of truth in campaigning, how to use humour to squash a scandal, the key to fundraising, and why bullshit always comes back to bite you. Pick up is

Kings In Grass Castles – Mary Durack Very Good Condition Paperback 411 pages Publisher: Random House Australia 2008 Goodreads description: 'The best saga of pastoral Australia ever published... hard to describe without superlatives... in a hundred years the book will still be a classic.' Meanjin Description of book ‘... far better than any novel; an incomparable record of a great family and of a series of great actions.’ The Bulletin When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia

Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave – Adam Alter Very Good Condition Hardcover 261 pages Publisher: The Penguin Press 2013 Goodreads description: A revelatory look at how our environment unconsciously yet dramatically shapes the judgments and decisions we make every day. Most of us go through life believing that we are in control of the choices we make, that we think and behave almost independently from the world around us, but as Drunk T

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World – Steve Levine Like New Condition Hardcover 307 pages Publisher: Penguin Group 2015 Goodreads description: A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology. A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new

Car Wars: The Rise, The Fall and The Resurgence of the Electric Car – John J. Fialka Like New Condition Hardcover 268 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books 2015 Goodreads description: The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil fuelled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning former Wall Sreet Journal reporter John Fialka documents the early days of the electric car, from th

The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe – Brian Clegg Very Good Condition Hardcover Sticker marker on dust jacket. 310 pages Publisher: Icon Books 2017 Goodreads description: Weaving together the great ideas of science, Reality’s Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive

The Good, The Bad And The Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers – Mungo MacCallum Like New Condition Paperback 273 pages Publisher: Black Inc. 2019 Booko description: Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John C

First We Make The Beast Beautiful – Sarah Wilson Like New Condition Hardcover 312 pages Publisher: Bantam Press 2018 Booko description: This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding better ways for me and my mate, Anxiety, to get around. It's everything I do. Sarah Wilson—bestselling author and entrepreneur, intrepid solver of problems and investigator of how to live a better life—has helped over 1.2 million people across the world to quit

What Kind Of Creatures Are We? – Noam Chomsky Like New Condition Hardcover 167 pages Publisher: Columbia University Press 2016 Booko description: Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research, to which

The Omnivore's Dilemma –Michael Pollan Very Good Condition Paperback 450 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury 2011 Goodreads description: What should we have for dinner? For omnivore like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma. When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffered by one food fad after another, Am

The Life And Death Of Petra Kelly – Sara Parkin Very Good Condition Hardcover Some notes on inside back cover. 230 pages Publisher: Pandora 1994 Goodreads description: In 1992, Petra Kelly, co-founder of the German Green Party and one of the most charismatic radical leaders of post-war Europe, was found dead in her Bonn home. She had been shot through the head. This biography aims to shed new light on the reasons behind her death. Pick up is free and easy. I’ll post 2 or 3 similar sized or

Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us – Vybarr Cregan-Reid Like New Condition Hardcover 320 pages Publisher: Hachette 2018 Goodreads description: Primate Change is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankind first got up on two feet. Spanning the entirety of human history - from primate to transhuman - Vybarr Cregan-Reid's book investigates where we came from, who we are today and how modern technology will change us beyond recogn