Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Love and Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel over ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons From a Lifetime of Listening by Hugh Mackay
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
Thinking in Pictures - Adventures in Trying to Be Smart by Michael Blastland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An original and witty guide to the world of smart-thinking that uses pictures to show where it goes right and wrong, by the creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less.
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm inDecember 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer. WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diar ...Show more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more