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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
$50.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem; a source of prejudice, not kindness. We think of empathy - the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves - as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But while it inspires care and protection in personal relationships, it ...Show more
Cleopatra - I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history-and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is the lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She has fascin ...Show more
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra--one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history--and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most int ...Show more
Dream Riders: Frankie by Jesse Blackadder, Laura Bloom
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Dream Riders
Without a saddle or bridle, all that's left is the truth. Dream Riders is an exciting new middle-grade series about horses, friendship and being true to yourself. Frankie's dream is more like a nightmare when her new horse turns out to be Zen – a shaggy, disobedient clown of a pony, who will totally wre ...Show more
Dream Riders: Kai by Laura Bloom
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Dream Riders Ser.
Without a saddle or bridle, all that's left is the truth. Dream Riders is an exciting new middle-grade series about horses, friendship and being true to yourself.When Shannon (the horse whisperer) takes the Dream Riders on a trip to the Brumby Rescue Centre, to pick out a wild horse to train, Kai decide ...Show more
Dream Riders: Storm by Laura Bloom, Jesse Blackadder
$18.00 AUD
Category: Fiction (8 to 12 years) | Series: Dream Riders Ser.
Without a saddle or bridle, all that¿s left is the truth. Dream Riders is an exciting new middle-grade series about horses, friendship and being true to yourself. Living in a remote reach of The Pocket, twelve-year-old Storm is a hippy home-schooler Medievalist who knows almost nothing about the modern ...Show more
Falstaff: Give Me Life by Harold Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes "a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom's imagination" (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of ...Show more
Get the Girls Out by Lucy Bloom
$32.99 AUD
Category: Self-Help
A rousing, funny, straight-talking, inspirational and generally awesome book from social entrepreneur Lucy Perry, part memoir, part life-lessons, which urges us all to step up, speak out, make a difference and save the world. This book is for women and girls who are restless. Women who seek adventure, ...Show more
How Pleasure Works: Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
$19.95 AUD
Category: Science
We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to the hidden aspects of things and people. Drawing on insights from child development, philosophy, neuroscience and behavioural economics, this title shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it.
How to Read and Why by Bloom
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong rea ...Show more
I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
$30.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. "It's nice to know someone as talented as Rachel is also pretty weird. If you're like me and love ...Show more
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A profound reflection on assisted death, and the enduring power of a marriage: an astonishing memoir from the celebrated author. New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In Janu ...Show more