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Aesop the Fox by Lindsay Simpson
Category: Fiction | Series: Spinifex Shorts Ser.
Adani's license to mine 60 million tonnes of coal for 60 years threatens Australia's precious ancient source of groundwater in the Galillee Basin, a vast underground water reservoir, part of the Great Artesian Basin, occupying more than 20% of Australia. How could a company with a globally disastrous re ...Show more
Against Technoableism - Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: A\Norton Short Ser.
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technolog ...Show more
Ageing: A Very Short Introduction by Nancy A. Pachana
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Very Short Introductions
Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow older we are bombarded with advice on ways to overcome, thwart, resist, and, on the rare occasion, embrace, ...Show more
Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction by Oliver Gloag
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Albert Camus is one of the best known philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a widely read novelist. This book contextualises Camus in his troubled and conflicted times, and analyses the enduring popularity of his major philosophical and literary works in connection with contemporary politica ...Show more
Alexander the Great - Conqueror, Commander, King by John Sadler; Rosie Serdiville
Category: Biography | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. It was the legacy of his father, Philip, that launched Alexander on a spectacular career of conquest that planted Helleni ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Mary Sebag-Montefiore
Category: Early Reader | Series: Short Classics Ser.
A marvellous addition to the highest level of the best-selling Reading Programme.Follow Alice and the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and join in with their madcap adventures. Part of the Usborne Young Reading series, this retelling of Lewis Carroll's enduring and popular nonsensical tale is ideal for ...Show more
All That Man Is by David Szalay
Category: Fiction | Series: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving-in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel-to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from ...Show more
Allied and Addicted by Alison Broinowski
Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Scribe short books
In many respects, Australia behaves as if it were still a colonial dependency. Our policies on foreign affairs, trade, human rights, and the environment seem to be uncritically allied to those of the United States. This timely book argues that our development as an independent nation has stalled and whe ...Show more
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
Category: Popular History | Series: Very Short Introductions
This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American history, in which a sense of paradox and irony loom la ...Show more
American Military History - A Very Short Introduction by Joseph T. Glatthaar
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent part of America. In American Military History: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph T. Glatthaar explores this relationship from its origins in thethirteen colo ...Show more
American Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Richard M. Valelly
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
This book introduces the vital elements of American politics, emphasizing how these elements have evolved into the form they take today. By using a historical-institutional approach to the various parts of American politics, Valelly communicates that the American political system is, and always has been ...Show more
American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Allison, Robert J.
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that peo ...Show more