Selling Students Short by Richard Hil
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
More students than ever before go to university across ANZ, however what they experience is vastly different from just a decade ago...
Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World by Yaneer Bar-Yam
$53.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Today, as individuals and as a society, we are faced with highly complex challenges. When we don't solve them correctly they rapidly become crises. This book explains how we can use complex systems research to solve complex problems in: * healthcare * education * military conflict * ethnic violence and ...Show more
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
$21.95 AUD
Category: Science
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an ...Show more
On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the advocacy group Liberty On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of except ...Show more
Hidden Pleasures of Life by Theodore Zeldin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What is the point of working so hard? What can replace the shortage of soulmates? What else can one do in a hotel? Through these questions, and many others, Zeldin demonstrates that both the greatest problem and the greatest opportunity of the twenty-first century lie in our relationships with others. W ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shap ...Show more
She's Having a Laugh - 25 of Australia's Funniest Women on Life by George McEncroe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In She's Having a Laugh, 25 of the funniest women in Australia write about life, love and laughter. Their stories are irreverent, intimate and - most of all - often hilarious. They reflect on why they became comedians, celebrate the funny women in their own lives, explore what's different about the fema ...Show more
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins. The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that D ...Show more
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has Time by Brigid Schulte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses - individual, historical, biological and societal - that have ripped working mothers' leisure to shreds, and a quest for how it might be possible for them to put the pieces back together. In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes ...Show more
Story of Australian English by Kel Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on 26 January 1788. Today there is clearly a distinctive Australian regional dialect with its own place among the global family of 'Englishes'. How did this come about? Where did the distinctive pattern, accent, a ...Show more
Working it Out by Jayne Anderson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Have you ever wondered how successful women manage to combine motherhood and a career? In This is How She Does It, women such as Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Leader of the Opposition; Federal Court Judge, Annabelle Bennett; singer, Helen Reddy; former Sports Minister, Jackie Kelly and surgeon and Australian ...Show more