Watermark: an Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor". ("Wall Street Journal"). "Watermark" is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from it ...Show more
Fentanyl, Inc by Ben Westhoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational-drug landscape. Known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), these chemicals include replacements for known drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and heroin. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditio ...Show more
On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers by Michelle de Kretser
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony ...Show more
China Dependence - Australia's New Vulnerability by Jonathan Pearlman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia's status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security. China Dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic and diplomatic ...Show more
Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman; Greta Thunberg; Beata Thunberg; Svante Thunberg
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Greta is eleven years old, and she has stopped eating. She has stopped talking. And she has become fixated on the horrors of the climate crisis, which creep into news bulletins each night. Her parents grapple desperately, hopelessly, to make her better; her sister takes a turn for the worse; day by day, ...Show more
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular "Diagnosis" column--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix original series As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Te ...Show more
Seven Worlds One Planet by Jonny Keeling, Scott Alexander
$60.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Welcome home. A place 200 million years in the making. Long ago, our planet had only one gigantic land mass. Then something monumental happened. That supercontinent ruptured and seven different worlds were born. Each of those worlds - or continents - evolved, and continues to evolve, its own way of life ...Show more
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
$55.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is something w ...Show more
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
$47.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph -- a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstratin ...Show more
The Good Immigrant USA by Nikesh Shukla; Chimene Suleyman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration ...Show more
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gregory Mone
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
America's most celebrated astrophysicist invites young listeners to explore the mysteries of the universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson has become one of the most recognizable and respected figures in science, beloved to curious kids. In this adaptation of his #1 New York Times bestseller Astrophysics for Peopl ...Show more
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things by Peter Wohlleben
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by hu ...Show more