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Hallucigenia by Ben Garrod
$22.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Extinct - the Story of Life on Earth Ser.
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nat ...Show more
Megalodon by Ben Garrod
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Extinct - the Story of Life on Earth Ser.
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nat ...Show more
Nature Timeline Stickerbook by Christopher LLOYD CHRISTOPHER; Andy Forshaw Andy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Activity Books | Series: What on Earth Stickerbook Series
Make your own timeline about the amazing story of life on Earth, using stickers! What on Earth Stickerbooks tell giant stories using stickers on a timeline. This one is all about the amazing story of life on Earth from the tiniest living thing, a bacteria, 4 billion years ago, all the way to human being ...Show more
Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!: A Book of Opposites by Sandra Boynton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Board Books | Series: Boynton on Board Ser.
Dinosaurs BIG and dinosaurs TINY, dinosaurs SMOOTH and dinosaurs SPINY gather in this energetic board book that introduces the concept of opposites from the bestselling author Sandra Boynton!Some outside and some indoors--OH MY OH MY OH DINOSAURS! Sunbathing dinosaurs and artistic dinosaurs, dancing din ...Show more
On Freedom by Tory Shepherd
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | Series: On Ser.
They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. Over the next few decades couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them. Tory Shepherd looks at how women's freedom to choose motherhood ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
On Identity by Stan Grant
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately ho ...Show more
On Life's Lottery by Glyn Davis
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | Series: On Ser.
Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by the lottery of where you are born a ...Show more
On Money by Rick Morton
$16.99 AUD
Category: Literary Essays | Series: On Ser.
Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too much money often corrupts people - too little can make people feel desperate. Growing up in rural Queensland, journalist Rick Morton has known poverty ...Show more
On Obsession (on series) by Malcolm Knox
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Ser.
Part of a series that pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with important themes in life, this essay contemplates obsession. Discussing topics such as love, Marcel Proust, soul mates in fiction, numerical palindromes, and bloodlines, among other fixations, this personal examination exp ...Show more
On Politics and Stuff (On Series) by Mark Humphries
$16.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Series: On Ser.
If you love iambic pentameter, then look away because this book about Australian politics is pure prose, baby!This book is quite possibly the most comprehensive book on Australian politics ever written. That's right, it covers both houses of parliament.We'll take you inside the halls of power. And if we ...Show more
On Rage ( On Series) by Germaine Greer
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Ser.
On Rage is Germaine Greer's enduring essay about Aboriginal dispossession. With characteristic acuity and passion, Greer looks to the causes of rage and its consequences in Indigenous Australian men. Originally published six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations in ...Show more