Gay Sydney: A History by Garry Wotherspoon
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation. He also ponders the parallel evaporation of a distinctly gay sensibility and the disappearance of once-packed gay bars that have now beco ...Show more
Mating in Captivity: How to Keep Desire and Passion Alive in Long-Term Relationships by Esther Perel
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home. One of the world's most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
$18.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. Th ...Show more
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
$15.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Empathy by Roman Krznaric
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. It's an essential, transforming quality we must develop for the 21st Century. Through encounters with actors, activists, groundbreaking designers, undercover journ ...Show more
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$10.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.