The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs created a hugely successful empire that lasted for around 150 million years.In this hugely ...Show more
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
$50.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
I will make a guarantee: Assuming we survive to tell the tale, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has a high probability of joining the likes Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Max Weber's Economy and Society as defining social-economics texts of modern times. It is not a 'quick read;' it is to be s ...Show more
Underland - A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time--from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a ...Show more
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Ree
$60.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In Witcraft Jonathan Rée offers compelling intellectual portraits of celebrated British and American philosophers such as Locke, Hume, Emerson, Mill and James. But he also does much more. He draws attention to the philosophical work of literary authors like William Hazlitt and George Eliot, and dozens o ...Show more
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
This updated and expanded edition of Richard Denniss' bestselling Quarterly Essay gives a template for understanding the next federal election; discusses how and why the right of politics has continued to splinter; focuses on why energy and climate policy is such a problem for conservative politics; and ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
$18.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
Second Mountain (The) by David Brooks
$40.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest- career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we ...Show more
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond by Michio Kaku
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. We are entering a new Golden Age of spa ...Show more
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
28 June 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader is a collection of firs ...Show more
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Pelican Bks.
'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crises (or Don't) (H/B) by Jared Diamond
$55.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steeland Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countrie ...Show more
Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This volume offers a readable introduction to philosophy told through experiences of everyday life.