A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World by Chao-Hwei Shih
$37.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty and more. An unlikely duo-Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of b ...Show more
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find: A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage) George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into h ...Show more
Great Books of China by Frances Wood
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Discover or rediscover the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the c ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$37.00 AUD
Category: Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
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
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more