Black Sheep : The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad by Dr. Richard Stephens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the man who won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 and married a human statue comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological science from the far-flung corners of human experience. Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention for his research on the psychological ...Show more
Hack Attack : How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Award-winning journalist Nick Davies spent more than six years uncovering the truth about the crimes at the News of the World. Hack Attack is the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. This book tells for the first time how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities worked tirele ...Show more
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J. ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in internat ...Show more
I Gave A Gonski - Selected Speeches by David Gonski
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
David Gonski, businessman, philanthropist and patron of the arts, is one of Australia's most successful people, whose name has passed into the language as the author of the Gonski report into education funding. In this collection of mostly unpublished speeches, he writes for the first time about the iss ...Show more
World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In the follow-up to his inspiring bestseller The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew Crawford examines daily life as a whole - doing the shopping, sharing a meal, going to the park. He asks: with ever-increasing demands on our attention, and without the guidance once supplied by tradition and reli ...Show more
My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out (Penguin Special) by Jay Rayner
$9.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Shorts/Specials
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out ...Show more
When To Rob a Bank by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken? Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing has been ...Show more
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flo ...Show more
Supermarket Monsters: the Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance: Redback by Malcolm Knox
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Redback Ser.
Down, down . . . In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia's retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this country spends $100 a week across their many outlets. What does such dominance mean for supplie ...Show more
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: NYRB Classics S.
One of the major documents of modern European civilisation, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it 'the greatest work of prose of the greatest perio ...Show more