The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge by Gary White, Matt Damon
$43.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with ...Show more
Fugitive by Simon Tedeschi
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short, violent and strange - the music of another world. In 1938, a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney, Australia. In 1942, another family, this time Polish, is nearly destroyed.Half a ...Show more
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith by Sarah Krasnostein
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves ...Show more
Portable Magic - A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
$45.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow ...Show more
The Transgender Issue - An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An incisive overview of transgender oppression and a brilliant argument for transgender rights, from a powerful new voice Trans people today have become a culture war issue, the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. T ...Show more
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their ...Show more
The Other Dark Matter - The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health by Lina Zeldovich
$42.95 AUD
Category: Science
Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource--if we make better use of it. The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet ...Show more
Scene and Structure by Jack M. Bickham
$24.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
Using many examples from his own work, Jack Bickham shows writers how to construct solid, believable narratives that keep editors and readers anxiously turning the pages.'
Against the Tide - The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism by Roger Scruton; Mark Dooley (Edited by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume, edited by Mark DooleyThe philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative thinker of the post-war years. In this book are assembled the very best of his essays and co ...Show more
Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Discover the truth about the billion-dollar online economy that made the internet's best known stars. Being an influencer is now the top future career choice for children. What if you could spend your life adored by fans, receiving freebies and countless riches. What if you could bypass the worst job ma ...Show more
Tickets for the Ark: From wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save? by Rebecca Nesbit
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
A popular science title about conservation. What should we conserve and why in this age of extinctions? Who should get tickets for the ark? Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global conservation efforts are failing to halt th ...Show more
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race by Esi Edugyan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art. History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who ...Show more