How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya (Stanford Univ. Stanford University, California Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ. Stanford Univ.)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof can be of help in attacking any problem that can be 'reasoned' out. Generations of readers have relished Polya's instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem.
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic by Ramesh Menon
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The great Indian epic rendered in modern proseIndia's most beloved and enduring legend, the "Ramayana "is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed by the Sanskrit po ...Show more
What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"The question 'what is philosophy?' can perhaps only be posed lat in life, with the arrival of old age and the time for speaking concretely. It is a question posed in a moment of quiet restlessness, at midnight, when there is no longer anything to ask." Posing that question, Deleuze and Guattari worked ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Category: Philosophy
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey--"The Story of Philosophy "is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the n ...Show more
Simplest Words (HB) by Alex Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more
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)
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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