Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies by Gordon Corera
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes us from the Second World War to the internet age, with astonishing revelations about espionag ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt ...Show more
Anatomy 101: From Muscles and Bones to Organs and Systems, Your Guide to How the Human Body Works by Kevin Langford
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 101
An all-in-one guide to the human body! Anatomy 101 offers an exciting look into the inner workings of the human body. Too often, textbooks turn the fascinating systems, processes, and figures of anatomy into tedious discourse that even Leonardo Da Vinci would reject. This easy-to-read guide cuts out the ...Show more
Smashing Physics by Jon Butterworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Col ...Show more
Black Sheep : The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad by Dr. Richard Stephens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the man who won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 and married a human statue comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological science from the far-flung corners of human experience. Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention for his research on the psychological ...Show more
Hack Attack : How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Award-winning journalist Nick Davies spent more than six years uncovering the truth about the crimes at the News of the World. Hack Attack is the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. This book tells for the first time how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities worked tirele ...Show more
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J. ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in internat ...Show more
I Gave A Gonski - Selected Speeches by David Gonski
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
David Gonski, businessman, philanthropist and patron of the arts, is one of Australia's most successful people, whose name has passed into the language as the author of the Gonski report into education funding. In this collection of mostly unpublished speeches, he writes for the first time about the iss ...Show more
World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In the follow-up to his inspiring bestseller The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew Crawford examines daily life as a whole - doing the shopping, sharing a meal, going to the park. He asks: with ever-increasing demands on our attention, and without the guidance once supplied by tradition and reli ...Show more
My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out (Penguin Special) by Jay Rayner
$9.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Shorts/Specials
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out ...Show more
When To Rob a Bank by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken? Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing has been ...Show more