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
Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up to by Dean Burnett
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Why do you lose arguments with people who know much less than you? Why can you recognise that woman, from that thing...but can't remember her name? And why, after your last break-up, did you find yourself in the foetal position on the sofa for days, moving only to wipe the snot and tears haphazardly fro ...Show more
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In Other Words is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession- that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although La ...Show more
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet by Justin Peters
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A smart, lively history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society - and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons-fromSlate correspondent Justin Peters. Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange ...Show more
The Seducer's Diary by Soren Kierkegaard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Soren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkega ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times): how to respond to today's demands on our attention. In this brilliant follow-up to The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. With ever-increasing demands on our at ...Show more
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he show ...Show more
When to Rob a Bank - A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the very best of their blogs, conversations, wisecracks and advice from the last decade to reveal the outlandish truth about everything from lying to bankrobbing, f ...Show more
Silent Woman by J. Malcolm
$24.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Janet Malcolm has produced a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the art of biography, in which she takes as her example the various biographies of the poet Sylvia Plath. "The Silent Woman" is an astonishing feat of criticism and literary detection. It is not a book about the life of Sylvia Plat ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decadeâe(tm)s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with ...Show more