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Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Love and Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel over ...Show more
Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$40.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about cli ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Code Breaker - Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she cam ...Show more
Homo Irrealis by André Aciman
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
$25.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
Word Perfect: Curious Coinages and Etymological First Aid For Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' Pam Ayres 'Susie Dent is a national treasure' Richard Osman Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner. From Turning a Blind ...Show more
Buried Not Dead by Fiona McGregor
$26.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Novelist Fiona McGregor's new book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, ...Show more