In Love with Betty the Crow - The Science Show ABC radio by Robyn Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Robyn Williams reflects on why science matters, after 40 years of ABC RN's The Science Show. The Science Show with Robyn Williams on Radio National is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio. Scientific issues, debates, events, personalities, exposing scientific fraud, discoveries and b ...Show more
The Fictional Woman by Tara Moss
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Tara Moss has worn many labels in her time, including "author," "model," "gold-digger," "commentator," "inspiration," "dumb blonde," "feminist," and "mother," among many others. Now, in her first work of non-fiction, she blends memoir and social analysis to examine the common fictions about women. She ...Show more
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Dreger (Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "The World until Yesterday""Alice Dreger would win a prize for this year's most gripping novel, except for one thing: her stories are true, and this isn't a novel. Instead, it's an exciting account of complicated good guys and bad guys, and the pursu ...Show more
Last Night's Reading - Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Irresistible illustrations of authors and the charming, wise and hilarious things they say at their readings. At every book reading Kate Gavino attends, she hand-letters the event's most memorable quote alongside a charming portrait of the author. In Last Night's Reading, Kate takes us on her journey th ...Show more
Griffith Review 51: Fixing the System by Gabbie Stroud
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
Griffith Review 51: Fixing the System sets out to examine Australia's political and social system and to investigate why so many believe it to be unfit for the purpose. While Australia has never been richer, its people better educated and the country better connected internationally, there is a widespre ...Show more
Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference by Judea Pearl
$77.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory with significant applications in the fields of statistics, artificial intelligence ...Show more
The Telomerase Revolution: The Breakthrough That Holds the Key to Slowing the Ageing Process by Michael Fossel
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about aging - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before.Dr. Michael Fossel has been in the forefront of aging research for decades. In The Telomerase Revolution, he takes us on a scientific journey, with startling ...Show more
Usage & Abusage by Eric Partridge
$9.95 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Popular Penguins
Usage and Abusage is Penguin's classic linguistic reference book that not only tells you how to use English correctly, but is also a declaration of war on its misuse. Covering grammatical problems, words that are commonly abused and confused, matters of style, as well as providing advice on how to commu ...Show more
Inside the Now by Thich Nhat Hanh
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
For the first time Thich Nhat Hanh shares his inspiration and experience of living in stillness and timelessness. Written to pull you into the moment as he sees it, "Inside the Now" offers teachings inspired by the spirit of poetry. More personal than the majority of his writing, Inside the Now shares t ...Show more
Philosophy of Boredom by SVENDSEN LARS
$50.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
It has been described as a tame longing without any particular object by Schopenhauer, a bestial and indefinable affliction by Dostoevsky, and time's invasion of your world system by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigate ...Show more
Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet by Alicia Silverstone
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
After spending more than 20 weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list, Alicia Silverstone's inspiring guide to eating a plant-based diet has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to a brand new relationship with food and health. Now available as a paperback and printed on 100 per cent recycled ...Show more
The Power of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are alr ...Show more