Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by DK
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this book have the potential to shake us awake from our preconceived certainties: our own identity, the stability of the outside world, the me ...Show more
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries--from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers--"this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again" (Booklist, starred review). Mystery Writers of ...Show more
Do As I Say: How cults control, why we join them, and what they teach us about bullying, abuse and coercion by Sarah Steel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has research ...Show more
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
$37.00 AUD
Category: Essays
‘I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he’s a national treasure.’ Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US t ...Show more
The Journals of John Cheever by Robert (EDT) John; Gottlieb Cheever
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Vintage International
In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. John Cheever's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dar ...Show more
CROSSING OPEN GROUND by LOPEZ BARRY
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez explores the challenges and joys of the human experience through the frame of the natural world in fourteen arresting and extraordinary essays In Crossing Open Ground, award-winning literary writer Barry Lopez offers prescient, beautiful, and thought-provok ...Show more
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly - why?__________A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects ...Show more
Don't Trust Your Gut - Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
You know less than you think you do about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place.In his international bestselle ...Show more
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The time has come to deal with the unaccountable power of digital technology. Early efforts at regulation have been confused, contradictory and often counterproductive. No single person or government has a plan of action.In The Digital Republic, acclaimed author and barrister Jamie Susskind tackles one ...Show more
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on decades of observing other primates, especially our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex ...Show more
The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman
$20.00 AUD
Category: Climate
When Ida, a Dutch climatologist, accepts an internship at a climate research institute in the Italian Alps, it means leaving her girlfriend Robin behind inAmsterdam. As she and her new colleagues prepare to demolish a decommissioned hydropower dam, Ida finds herself grappling with love, loneliness andh ...Show more
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today.