Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could ...Show more
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
$20.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times 'The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read' Matt Haig 'Rarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything I've ever read, seen or written. A masterpiece' Adam Rutherford ...Show more
On the Grid: Australian Electricity in Transition by Guillaume Roger (Ed.)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Around the world and within Australia an energy transition is occurring. While engineering solutions are being developed to facilitate this transformation, the institutions governing Australia’s electricity market are failing to adjust rapidly enough to the new energy mix and to the demands on the power ...Show more
Wittgenstein's Ladder by Perloff, Marjorie
$54.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that philosophy ought really to be writte ...Show more
Concise Foraging Guide by Tiffany Francis-Baker
$15.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: The\Wildlife Trusts Ser.
This practical pocket guide includes 194 edible fruits, nuts and seeds, flowers, greens and vegetables, herbs, roots, whole plants, fungi, seaweeds and shellfish that you can forage in the UK and Europe. Each species account includes accurate artworks and concise descriptions outlining essential details ...Show more
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM BOOK CLUB PICK*'A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.' Bill Gates, from the foreword 'The de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large.' The New York Times 'This is a colourful and ...Show more
Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.Amanda Lohrey is a fearless and idiosyncratic writer whose award-winning career spans four decades. Her work is experimental, political, intimate and compelling. Lo ...Show more
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the microscopic world around us by Keith Seifert
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
An enthralling look at our relationship with fungi, from an author who has spent more than forty years studying them on five continents.Fungi are essential to all life on Earth and yet fungal diseases lead to over one million deaths each year. How can we strike a better balance with our microbial cousin ...Show more
The Nerves and Their Endings - Essays on Crisis and Response by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.She draws parallels between an eati ...Show more
Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Nature Is More Cooperative Than We Think by Kristin Ohlson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A revelatory work about the many connections and helping behaviours among plants, fungi, microbes, and animals, and the implications of this reality for the way we manage our forests, wilderness areas, farmlands, waters, and even our cities.In Sweet in Tooth and Claw, Kristin Ohlson explores the subtle ...Show more
Legitimate Sexpectations: The Power of Sex-Ed by Katrina Marson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Can we promise future generations a life free of sexual violence, in which their sexual wellbeing will be protected? Is this a promise we can keep?As a sexual offences prosecutor, Katrina Marson works for an institution that can only respond, one case at a time, to sexual violence once the damage is alr ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more