The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses by Patrick Hastings
$48.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce's masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical context to create an easy-to-read, entertaining, and thorough review of Ulysses. In The Guide to James J ...Show more
Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo Floresiensis by Debbie Argue
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
A thrilling tale of discovery and the history of Homo floresiensisThere is only one kind of human on earth today- us. But we are only one of a number of human species - primates of the Hominini tribe - that have existed on our planet across the millennia. In 2004 the world was astounded by the discovery ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
'I have long been a fan of David Christian' - Bill Gates A user's guide to the future from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways befor ...Show more
Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less by James Hamblin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
SOAP SAVES LIVES. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment? Apart from in hand-washing there is no need to use soap on our bodies at all?Doctor and preventative medicine expert James Hamblin gave up showering five years ago and only eve ...Show more
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality 'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. Wilson In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, i ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial TimesFrom the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equa ...Show more
Under the Skin: racism, inequality, and the health of a nation by Linda Villarosa
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From an award-winning writer at The New York Times Magazine comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll that racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and ...Show more
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
$45.00 AUD
Category: Climate
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the clim ...Show more
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence by James Bridle
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
A mind-bending exploration of non-human intelligence, and how it holds the keys to our continuing life on earth. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans - or do we share it with other beings? Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increas ...Show more
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven PinkerWhy can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory- because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then pa ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more