The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of 'good parenting'. Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call 'parenting' is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surrounding i ...Show more
Not for Profit : Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The Public Square
Argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. This title offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for those who cares about the deepest purposes of education.
The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
$28.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism, subversion, and homage, Wayne Koestenbaum illuminates ...Show more
Queering the Pitch by Phillip Brett
$80.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
When the first edition of Queering the Pitch was published in early 1994, it was immediately hailed as a landmark and defining work in the new field of Gay Musicology. In light of the explosion of Gay Musicology since 1994, a new edition of Queering the Pitch is timely and needed. In this new work, the ...Show more
Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship by Ruth A. Solie
$75.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most cha ...Show more
Ethics: a Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Written by Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think Short, lively, humorous, and accessible Unique combination of depth, rigor and sparkling prose Ethics is the area of philosophy which touches most on everyday life - its central theme is how we ought to live Discusses topics such as birth, ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race and the Birth of Private Space Flight by Julian Guthrie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Alone in a spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed towards space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world's first commercial astro ...Show more
The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best Novelist by Rebecca Smith
$33.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A delightful and informative guide to writing like Jane Austen, written by the five-times-great niece of Austen herself Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Her novels changed the landscape of fiction forever, and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and wi ...Show more
Picasso's Brain The basis of creative genius by Christine Temple
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A fascinating study of the factors that contribute to creative genius from an eminent neuropsychologist, using Pablo Picasso as our case study Where does creativity come from? Why are some people more creative than others? Eminent neuropsychologist Christine Temple navigates a wide range of factors from ...Show more
Einstein's Greatest Mistake - The Life of a Flawed Genius by David Bodanis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by eve ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Shenanigan to Selfie by John Simpson
$29.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more