The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser.
Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.
Madness and Civilization by M. Foucault
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Translation of Folie et deraison, histoire de la folie.
How Things Work - The Inner Life of Everyday Machines (HB) by Theodore Gray; Nick Mann (Photographer)
$43.00 AUD
Category: Science
Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyd ...Show more
Stop Reading the News - A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life by Rolf Dobelli
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
News is to the mind as sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop ...Show more
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Magical' - Mindy Kaling 'Delicious' - Amy Sedaris 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' - John Mulaney 'It made me remember I was alive' - George Saunders To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind ...Show more
Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shar ...Show more
Dark Skies - A Journey into the Wild Night by Tiffany Francis
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science
Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, author Tiffany Francis travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity's connection to the night sky.Over the course of a year, Tiffany travels through different nightscapes across the UK an ...Show more
The Undying - Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer
$50.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experien ...Show more
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture ...Show more
The Art of Losing Control : A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable of so many more states of experience?Piecing together interviews, analysis of ancient and modern philoso ...Show more