The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Emily Oster
$33.00 AUD
Category: Pregnancy & Parenting
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster.Parenting is a full-time job. It's time we start treating it like one."A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day opera ...Show more
The Diabetes Code Cookbook - Delicious, Healthy, Low-Carb Recipes to Manage Your Insulin and Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes by Jason Fung; Alison Maclean
$50.00 AUD
Category: Health
The ultimate companion cookbook to The Diabetes Code from the New York Times-bestselling author and pioneer of intermittent fasting, Dr. Jason Fung. Dr. Jason Fung helped thousands of people lose weight with his breakout bestseller The Obesity Code. Next, he helped prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes ...Show more
The Sunny Nihilist: How a meaningless life can make you truly happy by Wendy Syfret
$28.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
How believing in nothing is the key to a happy life - welcome to Sunny Nihilism. Nihilism is making a comeback, and for younger generations the idea that existence is meaningless is cause for celebration, not despair. Written directly for burnt-out Millennials disillusioned with the search for meaning t ...Show more
Ayurvedic Rituals: Wisdom, Recipes and the Ancient Art of Self-Care by Chasca Summerville
$35.00 AUD
Category: Self-Help
Ayurvedic Rituals: Wisdom, Recipes and the Ancient Art of Self-Care is your introduction and practical guide to the Ayurvedic philosophy, showing you how a deep connection to yourself and Mother Nature will help you achieve harmony in your body and mind. In this guide, Ayurvedic practitioner Chasca Sum ...Show more
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku
$37.00 AUD
Category: Religion
The world’s biggest religion has a problem. There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist – the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and and its miraculous contents have never been found. In the absence of any hard data, ...Show more
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
$30.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone cal ...Show more
The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" -- that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both -- has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict ...Show more
Understanding Beliefs by Nils J. Nilsson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to enter ...Show more
Waves by Fredric Raichlen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves. In the water, enthusiastic waders jump and shriek with pleasure when a wave hits them. But where do these waves come from? How are they formed and why do they break on the shore? In Waves, Fredric Raichlen ...Show more
Free Will by Mark Balaguer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then ...Show more