Essential Marcus Aurelius by John Piazza; Marcus Aurelius; John P. Piazza; Jacob Needleman
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Tarcher Cornerstone Editions Ser.
This inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and eth ...Show more
My Reading Life by Carr Bob
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Carr is renowned for his erudition, but what are his favourite books and why does he read them? What does he believe all thinking citizens of the West should read? He speaks of his profound love of reading, examining the reasons why certain books have so captured his attention.
The Paris Review Interviews: vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
$34.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The Paris Review
Volume One received blanket review coverage and was acclaimed by readers and critics alike. Word about "The Paris Review" is spreading more and more widely. Canongate is now the UK distributor of "The Paris Review Magazine". Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, Raymond ...Show more
The Canon : A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She draws on conversati ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science
"The God Delusion" caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. Whil ...Show more
Cultural Amnesia - Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
$32.95 AUD
Category: Essays
A guide to the twentieth-century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, such as Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.
Granta 99, Autumn 2007 : What Happened Next by Ian Jack (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays
This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano ...Show more
Uncertainty by David Lindley
$24.95 AUD
$27.95 (10% off)
Category: Science
Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's theorem stated that there were physical limits to what ...Show more
Jesus for the Nonreligious by John Shelby Spong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Controversial bishop and moral activist John Shelby Spong has been on a lifelong quest to rescue the Church from irrelevance. In JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS, he takes aim at the core of the Christian faith: the identity of Jesus himself. He first strips back the myths that have surrounded Jesus for cent ...Show more
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Black Inc. Agenda Ser.
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts an ...Show more
Curious Obsessions : In the history of science and spirituality by Rachael Kohn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Astonishing stories of religious quests that have spurred humankind on to great discoveries, from popular ABC Radio National presenter and author Rachael Kohn. A monk who kept banned books in a secret library under the nose of the Pope; an abbess who designed outlandish royal garments for her nuns; a ma ...Show more
Granta 96 - Winter 2006 : War Zones by Ian Jack (ed.)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Dispatches from the world of conflict, on the battlefield and off of it. Featuring Wendell Steavenson reporting from Beirut on the Israeli bombardment, Jame Buchan on the Trident base in Scotland, Geoff Dyer on everything he learned from war films, Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia and ...Show more