Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters. In Death By Shakespeare, Kathryn Harkup, best-selling author of A is for Arsenic and expert on the more gruesome side of science, turns her expertise to William Shakespeare and the creative methods ...Show more
Pandemic Century - A History of Contagion From The Spanish Flu To Covid 19 by Mark Honigsbaum
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disea ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
$33.00 AUD
Category: Climate
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...Show more
Anger : Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh
$32.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
" Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth." -His Holiness The Dalai Lama Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today's leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort. It was under the bodhi tree ...Show more
Floating Coast - An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans--the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia--before American and Eur ...Show more
Philosopher of the Heart: Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard's life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regar ...Show more
What We Need to Do Now - A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth by Chris Goodall
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. The book emphasises the importance, and relative simplicity, of decarbonising our energy supply but also stresses that this is a small part of the switch to a sustainable planet. Among many oth ...Show more
The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high up on a pedestal, or out on the curb, but right where they belong: beside words. It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. Th ...Show more
Billion Dollar Burger - Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food by Chase Purdy
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fast-paced, gripping insider account of the global race to be the first company to put a lab-produced meat product on the market, and to enact the biggest upheaval to the food business in decades The animal agriculture business is a billion-dollar industry, but with relentless population growth, incr ...Show more
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse - What You Urgently Need to Know by Nina Schick
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and situations which never actually happened. When co ...Show more
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano
$7.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Sublimely elegant, provocatively simple, deeply troubling. In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of ou ...Show more
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
$20.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES Editors' ChoiceFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theor ...Show more