The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Mind reading, recording memories, downloading dreams, telekinesis- no longer are these the province of science fiction. In some laboratories, they already exist. Michio Kaku takes us on a thrilling tour of the latest advances in brain science - in this life, and beyond. 'A mind-bending study of the poss ...Show more
Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now by Julianne Schultz
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
The Asian century is in full swing, generating unprecedented economic and social power. In coming decades this will profoundly change the world, and the lives of all those living in the world's most populous region. New Asia Now features outstanding young writers from the countries at the centre of this ...Show more
Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the 'disease model' of addiction is wrong, and illuminates the path to recovery.The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a br ...Show more
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
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Category: Contemporary Thought
"Tristes Tropiques" begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he ...Show more
Modern Romance - An Investigation by Aziz Ansari
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Category: Words & Ideas
People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your te ...Show more
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories by Ms Gertrude Stein
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Category: Contemporary Thought
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Living with a Wild God: A Non-Believer's Search for the Truth About Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Words & Ideas
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and a ...Show more
Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom by Cornel West
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Category: Words & Ideas
The "New York Times "best-selling author of "Race Matters "and" Democracy Matters "offers open-hearted wisdom for our times in this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, philosophy, and photographs that reflect the profound humanity that fuels the passionate public intellectual. ...Show more
Guidelines for Mountain Lion Safety by Poe Ballantine
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Category: Essays
"I explained toTomthat dealing with the bully was no different than dealing with the mountain lion. They were both predators looking for easy prey." Poe Ballantine visits his dying Grandfather Bing, receives free rent in return for evicting difficult tenants from the Totalitarian Hotel, models nude for ...Show more
What's Wrong with Diplomacy?: The Future of Diplomacy and the Case of China and the UK by Kerry Brown
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Specials
Traditional methods of diplomacy are fast becoming antiquated. Secrecy, pomp and elitism may have dictated diplomatic strategy of the Cold War era, but in a digitised twenty-first century, inclusivity and transparency are values of increasing importance. Access to information is being democratised for a ...Show more
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The world not only feels different. The data tell us it isdifferent. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking All the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
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Category: Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what ...Show more