Nuts and Bolts - Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way) by Roma Agrawal
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023* *AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE* 'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES 'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to give' JANE GARVEY 'A splendid book: clearly writte ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explor ...Show more
Free and Equal - What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly eloquent, incredibly insightful reimagining of liberalism' Owen Jones'Clear, brave, compelling' David Miliband'Inspiring ... impassioned ... full of hop ...Show more
Understanding Media - Communication, Power and Social Change by James Curran; Joanna Redden
$55.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend on average over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The world now has more than 5 billion internet users, and big tech continues to amass more and more money and power. Are we living through a media ...Show more
Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter by Carol Atherton
$43.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
An English teacher's love letter to reading and teaching- an eye-opening journey through the books we read at school, the impact they made on us then and what we can take from them now. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can ...Show more
Techno: Humans and Technology by Marcus Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Technology is changing the world. How will the opportunities and risks affect you? In the midst of a technology revolution and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), we all need to understand the relationship between humans and technology. Social media, data surveillance, biometrics, genomics and cr ...Show more
Escape from Shadow Physics: the quest to end the dark ages of quantum theory by Adam Forrest Kay
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'languag ...Show more
The Weight of Nature by Clayton Aldern
$55.00 AUD
Category: Climate
It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth. But in The Weight of Nature, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern shows that the warming climate is not just affecting our planet - it is affecting our brains and bodies too. Drawing on six years ...Show more
Life in Five Senses - How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and into the World by Gretchen Rubin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
'A charming journey through the science and experience of fully engaging your senses of smell, taste, touch, sight, and sound' - Adam Grant, author of Think Again The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project turns to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been ...Show more
Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
$38.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.'When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived ... The sun feels like the barre ...Show more
Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER***'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down' Cal Flyn, The Times'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-WellsA gr ...Show more
Sick of It - The Global Fight for Women's Health by Sophie Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A powerful call to confront the reasons why global politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic We know the causes of death and disease among women all over the world. We have the funding and commitment from governments and philanthropists to tackle it. So why a ...Show more