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.
Together We Can: Everyday Australians Doing Amazing Things To Give Our Planet a Future by Claire O'Rourke
$33.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Inspiring stories about people around Australia who are taking action on climate change, helping create a better future for our children and for the planet, while at the same time deepening connections with each other. Millions of Australians are quietly freaking out about climate change, and Claire O'R ...Show more
The Human Cosmos - A Secret History of the Stars by Jo Marchant
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
For most of human history, we have had a close relationship with the stars. Once they shaped our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And it comes at a cost. The Hu ...Show more
The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses by Patrick Hastings
$48.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and thorough review of Ulysses. In The Guide to James J ...Show more
Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo Floresiensis by Debbie Argue
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
A thrilling tale of discovery and the history of Homo floresiensisThere is only one kind of human on earth today- us. But we are only one of a number of human species - primates of the Hominini tribe - that have existed on our planet across the millennia. In 2004 the world was astounded by the discovery ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
'I have long been a fan of David Christian' - Bill Gates A user's guide to the future from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways befor ...Show more
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less by James Hamblin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
SOAP SAVES LIVES. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment? Apart from in hand-washing there is no need to use soap on our bodies at all?Doctor and preventative medicine expert James Hamblin gave up showering five years ago and only eve ...Show more
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality 'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. Wilson In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, i ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial TimesFrom the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equa ...Show more