True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
The Meaning of Things - Applying Philosophy to Life by A C Grayling
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK. Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and uplifting. A life truly worth li ...Show more
Silence - in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge once spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, his radio broken. This breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarctic, climbing Everest, or on the train at rush hour. 'Quietly, wisely, ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
The News A User's Manual by Alain De Botton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The News is Alain de Botton's witty and insightful exploration of our twenty-first century obsession with media. Why do we keep checking the news? Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as religion once did. But rarely do we consider how it touches us. Here, Alain de Botton e ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Contemporary Thought
'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible'In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the ...Show more
In The Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
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Category: Contemporary Thought
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more
The Brain-Dead Megaphone by George Saunders
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In this, his first collection of essays, Saunders trains his eye on the real world rather than the fictional and reveals it to be brimming with wonderful, marvellous strangeness. As he faces a political and cultural reality saturated with lazy media, false promises and political doublespeak, Saunders in ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more