A Good Life by Mark Rowlands
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning ...Show more
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, wheth ...Show more
The Simplest Words: A Storyteller's Journey by Alex Miller
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimat ...Show more
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
$50.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates."Why do we write?"With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its atte ...Show more
Time Travel by James Gleick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells ...Show more
Evolution: A Visual Record by Robert Clark
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth Evidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. E ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There - Tales from the Edge of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy
$27.00 AUD
Category: Science
An Oliver Sacks-style tour of the neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome and out of body experiences in which people lose some critical sense of themselves - with sometimes bizarre and often painful results - revealing the absolute importance of our sense of self ...Show more
The People's Bard by Nancy Pellegrini
$10.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
"Shakespeare is, arguably, Britain's most famous literary icon. So how did this uniquely Anglophone playwright come to China? From the first staging of the Merchant of Venice in 1913, to experimental new interpretations on the Chinese stage, his plays touch on universal themes, of love and loss, revenge ...Show more
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing ...Show more
Dream of Reason .. Greeks to Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites ...Show more
Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
"Physics for Future Presidents" gives the reader the science behind the headlines - the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hypertechnical times. As citizens of the world today, we need to know - trul ...Show more
Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman
$36.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, a ...Show more