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
Seeing What Others Don't by Gary Klein
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Insights can change the world, but we also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us, so we can more effectively solve problems, make decisions and get things done. Yet until now, we knew remarkably little about insight: how it works, and how we can develop it for ourselves. A ...Show more
Morality by Jonathan Sacks
$50.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
In today's world of cultural climate change, argues Jonathan Sacks, we have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and to government on the other. If the market rewards it, it must be OK - unless the law says not to. Yet while the markets have brought wealth to many and the state has done m ...Show more
The Works of Aretino - Letters and Sonnets by Pietro Aretino; Samuel Putnam (Editor); Marquis de Bayros (Illustrator)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
$40.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible influence.
On Sleep (On Series) by Fleur Anderson
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
On Sleep is the story of our love-hate relationship with slumber. Part-time insomniac Fleur Anderson ponders the big questions: Why can't I sleep? Do politicians and other high-fliers ever admit they too are exhausted? Do they get enough sleep to make sensible decisions? Where is society heading, and wh ...Show more
En Route by Juliana Engberg
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
It's almost impossible to get lost these days; the fastest and most direct route arrives with the press of a few keys. But what of the joys of unexpected discoveries off the grid? En Route is an ode to wandering through time and place, meeting personalities with no fixed addresses. Assisted by her GPS ...Show more
On Resilience (On Series) by Elisabeth Wynhausen
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
Elizabeth Wynhausen tells the story of an extraordinary inspirational character and reflects on the mysterious quality that is resilience. A humorous, irreverent essay that arrives at contentment and joy....
On Rape (On Series) by Germaine Greer
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
It's time to rethink rape. Centuries of different approaches to rape as inflicted by men on women have got us nowhere. Rape statistics remain intractable- one woman in five will experience sexual violence. Very few rapes find their way into court. The crucial issue is consent, thought by some to be easy ...Show more
On Rage ( On Series) by Germaine Greer
$17.00 AUD
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On Rage is Germaine Greer's enduring essay about Aboriginal dispossession. With characteristic acuity and passion, Greer looks to the causes of rage and its consequences in Indigenous Australian men. Originally published six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations in ...Show more
On Passion (On Series) by Dorothy Porter
$17.00 AUD
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In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other than romantic love and that 'some of the most deeply passionate experiences of [her] life happened between the cov ...Show more
On Obsession (on series) by Malcolm Knox
$17.00 AUD
Category: On Series | Series: On Ser.
Part of a series that pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with important themes in life, this essay contemplates obsession. Discussing topics such as love, Marcel Proust, soul mates in fiction, numerical palindromes, and bloodlines, among other fixations, this personal examination exp ...Show more