The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis by Richard Whatmore
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatm ...Show more
The Palace by Gareth Russell
$53.00 AUD
Category: British
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
$28.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer com ...Show more
Strange Little Girl by Jessica Knight
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
My father tells it because he made it up. A little bedtime story of my origin. They are not really my parents, the people who I call Mum and Dad. Those are not my siblings, the kids who I know as my brother and sisters. I am not really human. I am an alien from another planet in a far distant constella ...Show more
Downfall: Prigozhin and Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
$37.00 AUD
Category: European
The compelling, first-to-market story of the rise, fall and death of the Wagner Group's Evgeny Prigozhin, and what this tells us about the chaotic new direction of late Putinism, by the acclaimed author of A Short History of Russia. Evgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World by Harvey Whitehouse
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour.For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophis ...Show more
The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy's words have lit a clear way through th ...Show more
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk-and the players raising the stake In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book ...Show more
Sing Like Fish: How sound rules life under water by Amorina Kingdon
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'silent world' of the ocean, assuming that what we could ...Show more
Climate Peril and Paralysis: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest by Iain McCalman
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst. A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.Award-winning historian Iain McCalman reveals the little-known story of influential Australian conservationist, John Büsst. Known to his enemies as ‘The Bingal ...Show more