I Call Myself a Feminist - The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty by Victoria Pepe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them. We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist), ...Show more
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
The Right to Write by Julia Cameron
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
What if everything we have been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron's most revolutionary book, the author of the bestselling self-help guide The Artist's Way, asserts that conventional writing wisdom would have you believe in a false doctrine that stifles creat ...Show more
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
$45.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns his attention to the writers of his own national lite ...Show more
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden (University of Surrey)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a v ...Show more
The Four Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott
$62.99 AUD
Category: Science
This book is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the third-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant in ...Show more
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: TED
The Laws of Medicine follows Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, Dr Mukherjee as he investigates some of the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career - the cases that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. As a young medical student, Mukherjee discovered The ...Show more
The Mechanism of Mind: Understand How Your Mind Works to Maximise Memory and Creative Potential by Edward De Bono
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Mechanism of Mind presents Edward de Bono's original theories on how the brain functions, processes information and organises it. It explains why the brain, the 'mechanism', can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking that have gone on to inform his life's work, nam ...Show more
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
For the first time, a single volume that collects all of the aphorisms penned by this universally acclaimed twentieth-century literary figure. Kafka twice wrote aphorisms in his lifetime. The first effort was a series of 109, known as the Zurau Aphorisms, which were written between September 1917 and Ap ...Show more
The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology by Michael C. Gerald
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Sterling Milestones
Authors Michael and Gloria Gerald explore 250 of the most significant and interesting biology milestones from roughly 4 million BCE to modern times, such thought-provoking questions as Are animals altruistic? Why does the heart beat? What do the smallest microbe and the largest mammal have in common? Ke ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2015 by Geordie Williamson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing es ...Show more
Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines by Malcolm Gay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Imagine controlling a machine with your mind. Imagine a communication line direct from your mind to someone else's. Imagine controlling a prosthetic limb with a thought, or 'seeing' through a camera located miles away. Once the stuff of science fiction, such remarkable feats are now within the grasp of ...Show more