And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia's best novelists. 'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Over the year ...Show more
The Writer's Room by Charlotte Wood
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers' work ...Show more
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
$47.95 AUD
Category: Science
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in g ...Show more
Love Wins by Jim Obergefell, Debbie Cenziper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade. At the heart of the Obergefell v Hodges case is a story of law and love and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. Twenty years ago, Jim ...Show more
Unspeakable Things - Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny
$16.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Shortlisted for The Green Carnation Prize 2014 'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences ...Show more
The Human Body Coloring Book by DK Publishing
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An essential workbook that will appeal to all students of anatomy, "The Human Body Coloring Book" takes an interactive approach to human anatomy that will help users learn, understand, and revisit the subject with ease. Drawing on an unparalleled library of state-of-the-art specialist anatomical illustr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
Griffith Review 53 Our Sporting Life by Julianne Schultz
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
"Sport lies at the heart of what it means to be Australian. Our Sporting Life will examine what this really means as the role of sport within the national psyche shifts with the development of our country. It is timed to coincide with the finals season and the Rio Olympics, and will enrich the sporting ...Show more
Hands What we do With them and Why by Darian Leader
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling? For anyone curious ab ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope : Seaching for the Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
"A decade after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but time is fast running out. Atmosphere of Hope provides both a snapshot of the trouble we are in an ...Show more
The Ten (Food) Commandments by Jay Rayner
$13.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food. And Lord k ...Show more