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Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and...

  Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow. A blac...

Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judge...

 In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Sumbawa, and his ascent of the iconic volcano Mt. T...

Australian artist Greg Oakley has had a lifelong fascination with birds and bird art, and began photographing birds 20 years ago, progressing from ...

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Wi...

   From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraor...

This book contains interviews from leaders of higher education in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, and the UK. For leaders, staff, students and ...

'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular ...

An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed world The gripping, deeply mov...

Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that wil...

Revised and updated with the latest scientific research and updated case studies, the business classic that offers a revealing look at psychopaths ...

ILLNESS, MEDICINE AND WHAT MATTERS IN THE END For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you...

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days d...

The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charle...

A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collect...