Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope by Joëlle Gergis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Acknowledging that the world as we know it is coming apart is an act of courage. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history. The question is, do you want to be part of the legacy that restores our faith in humanity? Wh ...Show more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?In Rationality, Pin ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$25.00 AUD
Category: Climate
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effect ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death.The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world g ...Show more
On the Scent: Unlocking the Mysteries of Smell and How Its Loss Can Change Your World by Paola Totaro, Robert Wainwright
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
When award-winning reporter Paola Totaro lost her sense of smell to Covid in March 2020, her world changed and dulled in an instant. Trapped in a sensory vacuum without fragrance or flavour, she embarked on a journey of discovery to unravel the mysteries - and eccentricities - of the fifth sense. Our s ...Show more
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown by Craig Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on SundayMixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light ve ...Show more
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time–war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism–in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of ...Show more
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. Lying at the centre of every galaxy are the strangest objects in the Universe: black holes. Of extraordinary density and huge gravitational pull, no matter or even light can escape their ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
Leaning Out: A Fairer Future for Women at Work in Australia by Kristine Ziwica
$25.00 AUD
Category: Crikey Read | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Women's March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking truth to power and changing the way we think of ...Show more
Through Her Eyes: Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine by Melissa Roberts, Trevor Watson EDS
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline – covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels ...Show more
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd (Edited by) , Enrico Terrinoni (Edited by) , Catherine Wilsdon (Edited by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings the ...Show more