The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2012: The Quiet Revolution - Indigenous People and The Resources Boom by Marcia Langton
$17.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Boyer Lectures
'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the Aboriginal domain. My hope is that my interpretation of the economic impacts of the mining boom and some facts abou ...Show more
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website. Within weeks of their delivery Prime Minister Julia Gillards own speech about misogyny and sexism went viral and was celebrated around the world. Summers makes the case that Aus ...Show more
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
I simply wanted to know - for myself and my family - what meat is. Where does it come from? How is it produced? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? Are there animals that it is straightforwardly right to eat? Are there situations in which not eating animals is wrong? If this began a ...Show more
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The little book with a very big idea that has everyone talking Quiet, the Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller by Susan Cain, will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself. Our lives are driven by a fact most of us can't name and don't understand- whether we're an introv ...Show more
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the th ...Show more
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Memory Improvement
"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist On average, people squander forty days annuall ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
$32.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A best-selling, Pulizer Prize-winning author looks at her craft and, in a series of illuminating metaphors and anecdotes, paints a picture of a demanding, unpredictable, and sometimes absurd existence. "Anne Dilliard is a wonderful writer and The Writing Life is full of joys." - New York Times Book Revi ...Show more