Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Black Inc. Agenda Ser.
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts an ...Show more
Curious Obsessions : In the history of science and spirituality by Rachael Kohn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Astonishing stories of religious quests that have spurred humankind on to great discoveries, from popular ABC Radio National presenter and author Rachael Kohn. A monk who kept banned books in a secret library under the nose of the Pope; an abbess who designed outlandish royal garments for her nuns; a ma ...Show more
Granta 96 - Winter 2006 : War Zones by Ian Jack (ed.)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Dispatches from the world of conflict, on the battlefield and off of it. Featuring Wendell Steavenson reporting from Beirut on the Israeli bombardment, Jame Buchan on the Trident base in Scotland, Geoff Dyer on everything he learned from war films, Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia and ...Show more
Essential Dalai Lama by Dalai Lama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A huge international success, the Dalai Lama's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Now, for the first time, this inspirational new book brings together the Dalai Lama's writings on all sides of life from work to meditation, in his highly appealing and unique voice that applies the principles o ...Show more
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About it by Al Gore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it has become a true planetary emergency and we must recognise that we are facing a crisis. So why is ...Show more
A Reading Diary : A Year of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel
$25.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word. He decided to keep a record o ...Show more
Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million y ...Show more
We are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science
Tim Flannery dedicated the first edition of The Weather Makers to children: 'to all of their generation who will have to live with the consequences of our decisions.' Seventy percent of the people who are alive now will be alive in 2050. This is the date, many scientists agree, by which we have to cut o ...Show more
A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A collection of essays, which addresses many of the themes explored in the author's novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, it focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James an ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2010 by Christopher Hitchens (ed.)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Best American Essays (Paperback)
The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is "reliable and yet still surprising--the best of the best" ("Kirkus Reviews").
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists by Neil Strauss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it. Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist - men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques of seducing women. None of this is fiction. These men have their own vernacular and codes of honour, they trade strategies ...Show more
Albertus Seba, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Irmgard Musch; Rainer Willmann; Jes Rust
$110.00 AUD
Category: Science
Albertus Seba's curious creatures: A most unusual collection of natural specimens Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often col ...Show more