Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Lavinia Fontana - Trailblazer, Rule Breaker by Aoife Brady; Babette Bohn (Contribution by); Jonquil O¿Reilly (Contribution by)
$72.95 AUD
Category: Art
Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker explores this female Renaissance artist's fascinating biography and the cultural climate that enabled her to become the first woman artist in Western Europe to gain commercial success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Bringing together several strand ...Show more
Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul by Wroe
$55.00 AUD
Category: General
A dazzlingly original blend of memoir, essay, biography and poetry, reflecting on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page, by the acclaimed biographer and obituarist I think of my work as catching souls. It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life. A dazzlingly ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization by Harold James
$41.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand m ...Show more
Freedom from Fear - An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan
$80.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberals Freedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical debate, Alan Kahan charts the development of Weste ...Show more
Music of Exile - The Untold Story of the Composers Who Fled Hitler by Michael Haas
$51.95 AUD
Category: Music
What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these compose ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$37.00 AUD
Category: Political
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health by Camilla Nord
$55.00 AUD
Category: Health
A powerful reframing of mental health, grounded in cutting-edge neuroscientific researchThere are many routes to mental wellbeing and award-winning neuroscientist Camilla Nord is at the forefront of finding them. In this ground-breaking book, she offers a revelatory tour of the scientific and technologi ...Show more
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
$55.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life by Peter Coveney,Roger Highfield
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher in a n ...Show more