This is Not a Book : Adventures in popular philosophy by Michael Picard
$20.00 AUD
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Category: Philosophy
Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Provocative, wide-ranging and full of wisdom, Between the Monster and the Saintis a brilliant book about our place in the world. Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are dangerous and unpredictable places. We are susceptible ...Show more
This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
$19.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
Is that great novel still a seed in your mind, waiting for just the right time to emerge? When school is finished? When the kids have graduated? When you retire? No more excuses! You can write a novel and in this essential book of tips and practical advice for the aspiring writer, bestselling athor Walt ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
$26.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Guilt is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Bernhard Schlink's eloquent but accessible style, it taps in to worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2008 by MARR David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
These essays capture and illuminate the themes of an eventful year, demonstrating the quality of our writers across a range of topics as well as the vitality of the essay as a form of commentary, analysis and exploration.
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
Bamboo by William Boyd
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Throughout his career as a novelist, William Boyd has never stopped writing non-fiction, providing a fascinating counterpoint to the world of his novels. Bamboo gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographi ...Show more
God is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
The Stuff of Thought: : Language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can ...Show more