Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil; Gustave Thibon (Introduction by); Emma Crawford (Translator); Mario von der Ruhr Rah (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Gravity and Graceshows Weil's religious thoughts and ideas, drawn from many sources - Christian, Jewish, Indian, Greek and Hindu - and focusing on suffering and redemption. It brings the reader face to face with the profoundest levels of existence as Weil explores the relationship of the human conditio ...Show more
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Source of the Human Past by David Reich
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This important new data has clarified and added to our knowl ...Show more
The Death of Adam : Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson
$34.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midweste ...Show more
Chasing the Sun: How the Science ... by Linda Geddes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
The full story of how our relationship with the sun shapes our health, productivity and moodOur ancestors constructed vast monuments like Stonehenge and Pyramids of Egypt and Central America to keep track of the sun and celebrate the annual cycle of death and rebirth. The returning sun heralds new begin ...Show more
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Jupiter: The Ruthless One - Mars: The Doomed One - Sun: The Fiery One - Saturn: The Beautiful One - Pluto: The Mysterious One Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our solar system as we've never seen it before. We're living thro ...Show more
A Family Guide to Waste-free Living by Lauren Carter, Oberon Carter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Tackle our ever-growing waste problem with all the information, advice, budget-friendly recipes and projects you'll need to start reducing waste in your life. A Family Guide to Waste-free Living makes it simple and sustainable for families to eliminate waste in the home, at work and out in the world. Th ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Ray: "Readers of “Between you and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen,” will be enchanted by this sequel of sorts. And if you haven’t read "Comma Queen,” you will after finishing “Greek to Me,” and learning how Greek helped Norris, an international literary treasure, come to know the derivation of many Eng ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by De Botton Alain
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"A self-help manual for the intelligent person...witty, funny and tonic". -- The New York Times Book Review For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In, Search of Lost Time (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answ ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer The by Charles Graeber
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
One hundred years ago, physicians marvelled at patients with bacterial infections who appeared to have been spontaneously cured of deadly tumours. What was a miraculous mystery then is now hard scientific fact- immunotherapy is the cutting edge of cancer treatment, and a crucial breakthrough in the race ...Show more