Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Griffith Review 66: The Novella Project VII by Ashley Hay
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review'sseventh annual edition dedicated to the novella eschews a set theme to showcase work across a spectrum of subjects. Open to both fiction and creative non-fiction, Griffith Review'sdedication to the novella form has been hailed by Nick Earls as central to the revival of the form in Austr ...Show more
Transcendence - How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years. We are not like the other animals, yet we evolved through the same process. ...Show more
Stargazing : Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper by Peter Hill
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
A moving and hilarious memoir of life on three Scottish lighthouses - and a beautiful tribute to a long-lost vocation that will always capture the imagination. In 1973, Peter Hill was a 19 year old hippy art student when he was interviewed for the job of Relief Lighthouse Keeper by The Commissioners of ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments With Time by Vladimir Nabokov; Gennady Barabtarlo (Commentaries by, Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first time On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Du ...Show more
True Stories - And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with p ...Show more
From Fascism to Populism in History by Federico Finchelstein
$48.00 AUD
Category: Essays
One of the leading scholars of fascist and populist ideologies synthesizes their history to offer a thoughtful perspective on how we might apply the concepts today. This new edition includes an updated Preface that brings the book's content up to date following midway through the Trump presidency and th ...Show more
Vital Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
Get your pulse racing with Australia's most popular scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.Discover why people tell lies, why some planets are hotter than stars and how humans are terraforming the Earth. Is cockroach milk really the next Superfood? Why are birds so smart? Why do trees need each other to grow a ...Show more
Cold Case Investigations by Xanthé Mallett
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the disappearance of the Beaumont children to the abduction of William Tyrrell to the double murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce, Xanthé is determined to expose the truth to maximise dignity for both deceased victims and those left behind. Xanthé talks to experts to uncove ...Show more
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All by Robert E. Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that tech ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more