On Giants' Shoulders by Melvyn Bragg
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
Published to tie-in with BBC Radio 4 series, the story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures, from Archimedes to Crick and Watson. Exploring their impact and legacy with leading scientists of today, Bragg conveys the excitement and importance o ...Show more
The Screwtape Letters by Lewis, C.S.
$18.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on Earth, trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.
Human Brain The by Greenfield Susan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But now, more than ever before, we have the expertise to tackle this mystery - the last 20 years have seen astounding progress in brai ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
Le Rochefoucauld - Maxims by Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
Art of War by Sun-tzu; Thomas Cleary (Translator, Preface by); Sun Zi
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Dragon Editions Ser.
"Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of Waris still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on eve ...Show more
The Politics by Aristotle
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish ...Show more
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
$11.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics S.
This volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and the Meno, together with explanatory notes and substantial interpretive essays. Robert C. Bartlett's translations are as literal as is compatible with sound English style and take into account important textual variations ...Show more
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Classics
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and ...Show more
Griffith Review 33 Such is Life by Julianne Schultz
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review
Whatever you call it - memoir, personal essay, biography, life stories - there is insatiable hunger for the stories of real people facing impossible odds, or dealing with the mundanity of life. Such is Life showcases many such tales, and explores the way these narratives help us make sense of the world, ...Show more
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca Costa
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Why does it feel as if our most challenging problems today- the worldwide recession, global warming, fast-spreading viruses, terrorism and poverty- aren't getting solved? What if our brain has limits that prevent it from solving such complex problems? If ancient civilisations collapsed because they, too ...Show more