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
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.'