Environmental Defenders: Fighting for our natural world by Peart, Raewyn
Category: Non Fiction: General
For over 50 years the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has been at the forefront of protecting Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environments.From the Think Big power projects of the 1970s, to coastal developments on pristine northland beaches and the destruction of the Mackenzie Country’s unique dr ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
Category: New Arrivals
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons From a Lifetime of Listening by Hugh Mackay
Category: New Arrivals
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Category: Non Fiction: General
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
Building with Secondhand Stuff, 2nd edition How to Reclaim, Repurpose, Re-use & Upcycle Salvaged & Leftover Materials by Chris Peterson
Category: Sale Book
From Craig's List, your basement, and estate sales, you can salvage what you need to upcycle all kinds of cool things. You can build tables, install vintage hardwood floors and salvaged windows, mason reclaimed stone walls, and do much more using free or very inexpensive, high-quality, reconditioned mat ...Show more
Great Breakthroughs in Technology - The Scientific and Industrial Innovations That Changed the World by Robert Snedden
Category: Sale Book
From the earliest days of prehistory, humanity has developed tools to help make life easier. Using the latest insights of the science of the day, ambitious inventors and entrepreneurs have found ingenious solutions to the problems they face - and by doing so, they have shaped the world around them. In t ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Category: Non Fiction: General
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more