The Social Life of Books - Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
Abigail Williams provides a fresh and fascinating history of the evolution of reading into a popular social activity and essential component of domestic life in the mid-eighteenth century. Book jacket.
Figuring: Fortune Favours the Fast by Maria Popova
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist an ...Show more
Democracy - a Case Study by David A. Moss
$60.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "This absolutely splendid book is a triumph on every level. A first-rate history of the United States, it is beautifully written, deeply researched, and filled with entertaining stories. For anyone who wants to see our democracy flourish, this is the book to read. ...Show more
Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Because we have ten fingers, grouping by ten seems natural, but it has serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight is well suited to repeated halving. Grouping by two, as in binary code, has turned out to have its own remarkable advantages. Paul Lockhart presents arithmetic ...Show more
Numbers and the Making of Us - Counting and the Course of Human Cultures by Caleb Everett
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
A Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE award for Best Book in Language & Linguistics Carved into our past and woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world far more than we think. In this sweeping account of how the invention of numbers sparked a revolut ...Show more
Travellers Guide to Classical Philosophy by John Gaskin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the foundation of Western thought and a unique companion for visitors to Greek and Roman sites. John Gaskin unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and society of the classical world _ still visible in ...Show more
Indigenous Transnationalism - Essays on Carpentaria by Lynda Ng (Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: ...Show more
This Young Monster by Charlie Fox
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the ...Show more
The Thinking Woman by Julienne Van Loon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
One of the age-old questions of philosophy is whatdoes it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience. Van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers -- Rosi Bra ...Show more
Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know by Erica Frantz
$25.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know® Ser.
Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent authoritarianism. Around 40 percent of the world's people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world's countr ...Show more
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
I'll Be There for You - The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018A Bustle Book to Know in OctoberAn InStyle 10 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down This OctoberSIX FRIENDS THAT BECAME A FAMILY.A TELEVISION SHOW THAT BECAME A PHENOMENON.Today, Friends is remembered as an icon of '90s comedy and the Must See TV years. But when the series ...Show more