Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Roger Deakin's "Wildwood" is a much loved classic of nature writing. "Wildwood" is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, Roger Deakin embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Cen ...Show more
On Rage by GERMAINE GREER
$19.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
A passionate and powerfully worded essay about Aboriginal rage is a provocation that will cause heated and intense debate. The author is at her best here in this exploration of the seeds of rage and its corollary - grief.
The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West by Jack Kornfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
For over 2000 years, Buddhist psychology has offered invaluable insights into the nature of the heart and mind, and transformed the way many people around the world handle life's challenges. But the ancient texts on which these remarkable teachings are based can be difficult to penetrate for modern seek ...Show more
Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching - The Definitive Edition by Lao Tzu
$14.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Cornerstone Editions
In the hands of Jonathan Star, the eighty-one verses of the TAO TE CHING resound with elegant, simple images and all-penetrating ideas that have made this ancient work a cornerstone of the world's wisdom literature. This is another classic title in the 'Tarcher Cornerstone Edition' series, in which the ...Show more
Essential Marcus Aurelius by John Piazza; Marcus Aurelius; John P. Piazza; Jacob Needleman
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Tarcher Cornerstone Editions Ser.
This inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and eth ...Show more
My Reading Life by Carr Bob
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Carr is renowned for his erudition, but what are his favourite books and why does he read them? What does he believe all thinking citizens of the West should read? He speaks of his profound love of reading, examining the reasons why certain books have so captured his attention.
The Paris Review Interviews: vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
$34.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The Paris Review
Volume One received blanket review coverage and was acclaimed by readers and critics alike. Word about "The Paris Review" is spreading more and more widely. Canongate is now the UK distributor of "The Paris Review Magazine". Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, Raymond ...Show more
The Canon : A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She draws on conversati ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
"The God Delusion" caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. Whil ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia - Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$32.95 AUD
Category: Essays
A guide to the twentieth-century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, such as Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.
Granta 99, Autumn 2007 : What Happened Next by Ian Jack (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays
This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano ...Show more
Uncertainty by David Lindley
$24.95 AUD
$27.95 (10% off)
Category: Science
Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's theorem stated that there were physical limits to what ...Show more