Run Towards the Danger - Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
$49.95 AUD
Category: Essays
*Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2022 by Entertainment Weekly, Lit Hub, and AV Club* Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I hav ...Show more
S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346) by S. J. Perelman; Adam Gopnik (Editor)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Essays
S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty. He remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humour. Author and New Yorker st ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A behind-the-scenes tour for booklovers everywhere.
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished And Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--"quality"--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works."The ultimate goal in the pursuit of e ...Show more
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
$30.00 AUD
Category: Climate
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx – whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth – comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings ...Show more
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Lives of Australian Mammals by Jack Ashby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The platypus is an amazing animal – A mammal that lays eggs, produces venom and detects electricity. From the moment of its discovery, it has played a disruptive role in the narrative of evolution, and perhaps due to this rocky start, or to the lasting legacy of colonialism, most of us still know very l ...Show more
Hard Knocks by Fiona Scott-Norman (editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Hard Knocks is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who had a toughtime at school - either being bullied, not fitting in, or facing other adversities.The concept for the book is simple: many of the most popular Australians today were outsiders when they ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Robert J. Vanderbei
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D.Welcome to the Universe in 3D takes you on a grand tour of the observable universe, guiding you through the most spectacular sights in the cosmos — in breathtaking 3D. Prese ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' Spe ...Show more
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate and ally, remembering that just because others are learning you don't need to be the teacher, from the dynamic and sharp co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf. Poignant, inspiring, funny and most importantly authentic, How to ...Show more