The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918 by D.J. Taylor
$59.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
What do we mean when we talk about 'taste'? 'Taste' takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day. And there is the taste of Virginia Woolf's elusive 'com ...Show more
The Trouble with Women by Jacky Fleming
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
CAN WOMEN BE GENIUSES? OR ARE THEIR ARMS TOO SHORT? WHY DID WE ONLY LEARN ABOUT THREE WOMEN AT SCHOOL? WHAT WERE ALL THE OTHERS DOING? "Brilliantly, mordantly funny and extremely clever...There isn't a man, woman or child who wouldn't benefit from spending time with this." (India Knight). The Trouble Wi ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is? by Nick Lane
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick La ...Show more
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas by Roy Sorensen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltair ...Show more
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it i ...Show more
The Libertarian Alternative by Chris Berg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
" There are few more stale battles in Australian politics than those that pitch right against left. Libertarianism--the philosophy of government that pairs free market economics with social liberalism--presents a vigorous and viable political alternative to the old left right partisan shouting match. ...Show more
Better Living Through Criticism - How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth by A. O. Scott
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight a ...Show more
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson
$32.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
In Ted Talks Chris Anderson, head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the man who put TED talks on the world's stage. 'Nobody i ...Show more
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard
$56.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate h ...Show more
Girl Up by Laura Bates
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
They told you you need to be thin and beautiful. They told you to wear longer skirts, avoid going out late at night and move in groups - never accept drinks from a stranger, and wear shoes you can run in more easily than heels. They told you to wear just enough make-up to look presentable but not enough ...Show more
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren
$22.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European (the common ancestor of most European languages) to the ris ...Show more
The Psychology of Love: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
$9.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund F ...Show more