A Book of Friends - In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday by Dorothy Driver (Editor)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A Book of Friendsis a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It includes contributions from some of Coetzee's friends and contemporaries, and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his partner over the past four decades. Stretching from th ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
Net Privacy: How We Can Be Free in an Age of Surveillance by Sacha Molitorisz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In our digital world, we are confused by privacy - what is public, what is private? We are also challenged by it, the conditions of privacy so uncertain we become unsure about our rights to it. We may choose to share personal information, but often do so on the assumption that it won't be re-shared, sol ...Show more
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis by Cameron Muir (Editor); Jennifer Newell (Editor); Kirsten Wehner (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Australia — and the world — is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019–20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and ...Show more
The Value of Everything - Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation- the productive process that drives a healthy econ ...Show more
How to Write Copy That Sells - The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often by Ray Edwards
$36.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Writing copy that sells without seeming "salesy" can be tough, but is an essential business skill. How To Write Copy That Sells is a step-by-step guide to writing fast, easy-to-read, effective copy. It's for everyone who needs to write copy that brings in cash-including copywriters, freelancers, and ent ...Show more
When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher by MARIE ROBERT
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How can Kant comfort you when you get dumped via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger make you feel better when your dog dies? When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher explains how pearls of wisdom from the greatest Western philosophers can help us face and make li ...Show more
Into the Woods - How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you're writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to ...Show more
White by Bret Easton Ellis
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The controversial Sunday Times bestseller. Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$13.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Popular Penguins
Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. This rollercoaster ride explores the mysteries of space and time; asks questions about the nature of reality, dark matter, space warps and wiggl ...Show more
Humankind: A New Hopeful History of Human Nature - Human Kind by Rutger Bregman
$40.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2020'Humankind challenged me and made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah HarariFrom 'the folk hero of Davos', Fox News antagonist and author of the international bestseller Utopia for Realists comes a radical history of our innate capacity for kindnes ...Show more
Rewild Yourself - 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
'Such a simple, clever book.' Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding ways t ...Show more