Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul' Elizabeth Gilbert 'In elegant and ecstatic prose, Pico Iyer uncovers our wonderful capacity for hope' Katherine May One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on ...Show more
What's for Dinner? by Jill Griffiths
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food
What are we really eating? How do we eat in a way that nourishes us and does least harm to the environment? What exactly do farmers do? Should the world go vegan? Do food miles matter?Never before has so much food been produced by so few people to feed so many. Never before have Australian consumers bee ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$27.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
A Novel Idea by Fiona McGregor
$29.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
A unique, intimate portrait of writer's working life,as experienced by one of Australia's most highly regarded novelists and artists. A Novel Idea is a memoir in photoessay form that follows Fiona McGregor's life as she writes her award-winning novel Indelible Ink. It is a tongue-in-cheek rumination on ...Show more
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what—and who—this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urg ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred'A riveting feat of sci ...Show more
The Great Wave: The Era Of Radical Disruption And The Rise Of The Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of ...Show more
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us by Charan Ranganath
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A radical re-examination of memory by pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher, Charan Ranganath. We talk about memory as a record of the past, but here's a surprising twist: we aren't supposed to remember everything. In fact, we're designed to forget. Over the course of ...Show more
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more