'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
The Weather Machine - How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Shall we take an umbrella... or evacuate the city? The Weather Machine is about a miraculous-but-overlooked invention that helps us through our daily lives - and sometimes saves them - by allowing us to see into the future. When Superstorm Sandy hit North America, weather scientists had predicted its ar ...Show more
Problem with Everything - My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (HB) by Meghan Daum
$55.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
From "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time" (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild) comes a seminal new book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement. You won't be able to stop th ...Show more
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control by Stuart J. Russell
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipli ...Show more
Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'One of my absolute favourite writers' Decca Aitkenhead Who would we be without stories? Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order ...Show more
A History of Philosophy HB by A. C. Grayling
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions 'If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. Grayling' - The Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of so ...Show more