Stargazing : Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper by Peter Hill
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
A moving and hilarious memoir of life on three Scottish lighthouses - and a beautiful tribute to a long-lost vocation that will always capture the imagination. In 1973, Peter Hill was a 19 year old hippy art student when he was interviewed for the job of Relief Lighthouse Keeper by The Commissioners of ...Show more
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments With Time by Vladimir Nabokov; Gennady Barabtarlo (Commentaries by, Editor)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Nabokov's dream diary--published for the first time On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher John Du ...Show more
True Stories - And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with p ...Show more
From Fascism to Populism in History by Federico Finchelstein
$48.00 AUD
Category: Essays
One of the leading scholars of fascist and populist ideologies synthesizes their history to offer a thoughtful perspective on how we might apply the concepts today. This new edition includes an updated Preface that brings the book's content up to date following midway through the Trump presidency and th ...Show more
Vital Science by Karl Kruszelnicki
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
Get your pulse racing with Australia's most popular scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.Discover why people tell lies, why some planets are hotter than stars and how humans are terraforming the Earth. Is cockroach milk really the next Superfood? Why are birds so smart? Why do trees need each other to grow a ...Show more
Cold Case Investigations by Xanthé Mallett
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the disappearance of the Beaumont children to the abduction of William Tyrrell to the double murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce, Xanthé is determined to expose the truth to maximise dignity for both deceased victims and those left behind. Xanthé talks to experts to uncove ...Show more
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All by Robert E. Smith
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by laws and regulations. Frighteningly often, the influence of technology in and on our lives goes completely unchallenged by citizens and governments. We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that tech ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more
This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerants ...Show more
Am I Dreaming? New Science of Consciousness... by James Kingsland
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from them.
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid be ...Show more