The Choice of Hercules - Pleasure, Duty and the good life in the 21st century by A C Grayling
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher AC Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book. He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges. Above all, he ...Show more
The Big Tilt What Happens When the Boomers Bust and Xers and Ys Inherit the Earth by Bernard Salt
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Baby bust. Environmental blasphemy. The hotness delusion syndrome. These are just some of the intriguing new phenomena this next decade may yield. The past decade has provided us with a lot of fodder for prognostications - with Facebook and Twitter coming up from nowhere to suddenly dominate the culture ...Show more
Ill Fares the Land - A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever re ...Show more
You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old by Lewis Wolpert
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
The essential book on ageing from acclaimed scientist and broadcaster Lewis Wolpert. We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of the developed world will be over sixty. How should we deal with this ...Show more
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
$49.99 AUD
Category: European
Stories of individual pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have been the stuff of legend since the eighteenth century, but in Spanish Gold pirate expert David Cordingly at last gives us the big picture in all its bold and ruthless truth. Cordingly shows how the attacks of the buccan ...Show more
How to Avoid Being Killed in a Warzone: The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places by Rosie Garthwaite
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Everyone needs this book if they want to know how to get out of difficult situations whether at home or abroad. Written by Rosie Garthwaite, whose career as a journalist started in war-torn Basra, this book combines practical advice with contributions from many journalists and commentators including Rag ...Show more
A Potted History of Fruit by Mike Darton; Jim Buckland (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Potted History Ser.
Discover the origins, nature and personalities of everyday and unusual fruit.
Beyond White Guilt: The Real Challenge for Black-white Relations in Australia by Sarah Maddison
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Deep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was built on land that does not belong to us. Some of us now assert that Aboriginal people should simply take advantage of opportunities offered by white society. But many others feel guilt, often turning this guilt inwards, feeling helpless in the fa ...Show more
Into the Heart of Life by Tenzin Palmo
$25.00 AUD
Category: Religion
Hidden from the rest of the world, high in the Himalayan mountains, the people of Tibet developed a science of the mind over the centuries it took the West to build cars and planes. Forty years ago, Tenzin Palmo was one of the early Western women to meet the lamas coming out of Tibet and to study the Ti ...Show more
A Potted History of Vegetables by Lorraine Harrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
Whether to escape the rat race or to help save our environment, people are getting back to nature. Allotments and green spaces have never been so popular, seasonal and local produce is the order of the day, and the healthy nostalgia of growing heirloom vegetables is unquestionably and delightfully in vo ...Show more
Dick Smith's Population Crisis by Dick Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply affected by these trends - we have the fastest growing population of any developed nation. These ...Show more
Speech Matters: Getting Free Speech Right by Katharine Gelber
$34.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Why is Australia's current attitude towards freedom of speech harmful to democracy? Australia is the land of the 'fair go'. But does this attitude extend to freedom of speech? Unlike the US, Australia has no Bill of Rights to protect our right to free speech, yet most Australians take this right for gra ...Show more