The Story of More by Hope Jahren
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, highly readable chapters, she ...Show more
Gut Feelings - The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Much better qualified to help us make decisions is the cognitive, emotional, and soci ...Show more
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynmanfrom interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his r ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life' - The Letters of Great Thinkers by Ada Bronowski (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming discoveries about the complexity of life, how to rise above its hardships and enjoy its pleasures. We see writers ...Show more
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Canons Ser.
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wis ...Show more
The NeuroGeneration by Tan Le
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A highly engaging guided tour through the frontiers of what science knows about how the brain works, how to extend its power and how to fix it when it's broken.' - David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison and Teen Brain'Tan Le writes with optimism and compassion about the extraordinary evolution of brain ...Show more
Become What You Are by Alan Watts
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
Renowned lecturer and author Alan Watts presents his meditations on the dilemma of seeking your true self. In this collection of writings, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern t ...Show more
Shakespeare - Anthony Burgess by Burgess A
$20.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Among Shakespear's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespear the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespear and his contemporaries ( ...Show more
Best of Plimpton by George Plimpton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Collects the work of the distinguished editor, essayist, sportswriter, and adventurer from over his thirty-five-year career, featuring profiles, essays, articles, and other classics, such as The Amazing story of Sidd Finch.
Generation F: Why we Still Struggle with Sex and Power by Virginia Trioli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indecent assault ...Show more