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
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism a ...Show more
Griffith Review 32: Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas by Julianne Schultz
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Anyone who has attempted a crossword puzzle understands wicked problems. One wrong letter and the whole solution collapses, elegance becomes a mess. So too in life: complexity makes systems less robust. Solutions are rarely linear unlike a crossword puzzle, wicked problems have no preordained solution. ...Show more
This is Not the End of the Book - Two great men discuss our digital future by Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Half the Sky: How to Change the World by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
$28.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a dif ...Show more