Storyteller's Secret: From Ted Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch on and Others Don't by Carmine Gallo
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
How did an American immigrant without a college education go from Venice Beach T-shirt vendor to television's most successful producer? How did a timid pastor's son surmount a paralysing fear of public speaking to sell out Yankee Stadium, twice? How did the city of Tokyo create a PowerPoint stunning eno ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling by Larissa Behrendt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deep ...Show more
The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner
$50.95 AUD
Category: Science
When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all human religions. It has, in many cultures, shaped and motivated a more down to earth scientific interest ...Show more
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all.So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a di ...Show more
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" byThe Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration o ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. From a devastating critique o ...Show more
Free Will by Sam Harris
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
$32.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, ...Show more
Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows Among the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction t ...Show more
In My Own Words by Dalai Lama
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is celebrated as Buddhism's preeminent spiritual master and teacher, embodying the highest aspirations of this rich tradition that is more than 2,500 years old. With both profundity and simplicity, he has carried the nuanced teachings of the Buddha to the far corners of the g ...Show more
Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for it ... Every Time by Maria Konnikova
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
True con artists - the Bernie Madoffs, the Clark Rockefellers, the Lance Armstrongs - are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Why are they successful? And what keeps us falling for it, over ...Show more
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
$59.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the ...Show more