Dear Life: on Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society. Through some unforgettable case studies, she shows what care for the elderly and dying is really like - both the good and the bad. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatmen ...Show more
The Art of Reading by Damon Young
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
"In The Art of Reading, philosopher Damon Young delights in the pleasures of this intimate pursuit through a rich sample of literature: from Virginia Woolf's diaries to Batman comics. He writes with honesty and humour about the blunders and revelations of his own bookish life.Devoting each chapter to a ...Show more
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from ...Show more
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journali ...Show more
Susan Sontag - The Complete Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott
$23.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of t ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
How to Be a Leader (The School of Life series) by School of Life Staff (Compiled by); Martin Bjergegaard; Cosmina Popa
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
No one is born to lead. This is the idea at the heart of this thoughtful book on leadership. Popular culture feeds us images of the square-jawed, strong-armed leader - charismatic, powerful, decisive - but the truth is, with the right amount of self-knowledge and authenticity, anyone can be a good leade ...Show more
How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The School of Life
How to embrace boredom and find meaning in doing nothing. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedul ...Show more
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (The School of Life series) by Philip Delves Broughton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The School of Life
Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can dramatically improve your work, your life and your relationshipsHaving the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset - no wonder we regard successful entrepreneurs as modern-day magic-makers. But what if that spirit and dr ...Show more
Storyteller's Secret: From Ted Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch on and Others Don't by Carmine Gallo
$30.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
How did an American immigrant without a college education go from Venice Beach T-shirt vendor to television's most successful producer? How did a timid pastor's son surmount a paralysing fear of public speaking to sell out Yankee Stadium, twice? How did the city of Tokyo create a PowerPoint stunning eno ...Show more
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling by Larissa Behrendt
$24.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deep ...Show more