The Feel of Steel by Helen Garner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Helen Garner's second non-fiction collection moves through loss and desolation into moods of wonder, hilarity and beauty. This weave of working journalism with longer essays has the texture of a memoir, and offers a personal portrait of an always surprising talent.
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this ...Show more
Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee
$33.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We human beings had no say in existing--we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified--but faith is not know ...Show more
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