Good and Mad - The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
$26.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A New York Times BestsellerA Best Book Pick of The Washington PostA Best Book Pick of PeopleA Best Book Pick of NPRA Best Book Pick of EsquireA Best Book Pick of ElleIn 2018, women's anger seems to have erupted into the public conversation. But long before the Women's March and the #MeToo movement, fema ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...Show more
Beauty by Bri Lee
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull. You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal. In recent dec ...Show more
For Small Creatures Such as We: Ritual.. by Sasha Sagan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
For Small Creatures Such as We hunts for the meaning behind our most common, beloved celebrations and envisions how we can grow these roots into new and fulfilling secular rituals. From the daughter of celebrated scientist, Carl Sagan, this is a luminous and moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughte ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Numberland by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2019 with more rollicking romps through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things nerdy. This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from Adam's bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014); World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), The ...Show more
As Far As the Eye Can See - A History of Seeing by S. Denham Wade
$49.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, early art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, the smart phone. These tools shaped Western culture and made us who we a ...Show more
Scatterbrain: How the mind’s mistakes make humans creative, innovative and successful by Henning Beck
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
In this mind-bending book, award-winning neuroscientist Henning Beck explains why perfectionism is pointless – and argues that mistakes, missteps and flaws are the keys to success. Remember that time you messed up simple maths or forgot the name of your favourite song? What if someone told you that o ...Show more
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
Rise Sister Rise: A Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within by Rebecca Campbell
$19.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Rise Sister Rise is for the women who agreed at soul level to be here at this stage in history to lead this global shift that the mystics of all of the ages have predicted: the return of the mother and the rise of the feminine. It is essentially a call to arms for women to rise up, tell their truth, and ...Show more
The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human by Lee Child
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: TLS Bks.
What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?'- Karin Slaughter'. I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' - The Times In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher ...Show more