The Complete Philosophy Files by Stephen Law
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Is there a God, should I eat meat, where does the universe come from, could I live for ever as a robot? These are the big questions readers will be wrestling with in this thoroughly enjoyable book. Dip into any chapter and you will find lively scenarios and dialogues to take you through philosophical ...Show more
Born Liquid by Zygmunt Bauman; Thomas Leoncini
$21.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Born Liquid?is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today.
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more
Creating Freedom : Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future by Raoul Martinez
$24.99 AUD
Category: Inspiration
We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undem ...Show more
Guitars - Past and Present (HB) by Christian SEGURET
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
The guitar has adapted to every musical evolution. Few musical instruments have experienced such a wide variety of models, shapes, colours and materials. This book features more than 160 instruments, spanning more than four centuries of guitar history. They are the works of the great Italian and French ...Show more
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories by Elleke Boehmer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Ficton | Series: One World
One World Two is even more ambitious than Volume One in its geographic scope, featuring 21 writers drawn from every continent. Most of the stories are unique to this volume, while others are appearing for the first time in English (as in the case of the contributions from Egypt's Mansoura Ez-Eldin and B ...Show more
Brain Changer: The Good Mental Health Diet by Felice Jacka
$34.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Reading Level: 5
You feel how you eat.Professor Felice Jacka's love of food led her to question whether what we put in our mouths everyday affects more than our waistline. Felice set out on a journey of discovery to change the status quo and uncover the truth through rigorous science. Beginning her PhD in 2005, she exam ...Show more
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, has been found guilty of five sexual crimes against children.Updated edition. He is the most senior Catholic figure in the world to be charged by police and convicted of child sex offences. The abuse involved choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick's ...Show more
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
'We can draw lines across the world any way we choose, and in the history of race science, people have. What matters isn't where the lines are drawn, but what they mean.' Modern science is pivotal in our understanding of race - not because of the lines that thinkers through the centuries have chosen to ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion, the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Winner, 2017 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the----and then you wake.This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands u ...Show more
Dr Space Junk vs the Universe - Archaeology and the Future by Alice Gorman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
Going boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling fieldof space archaeology, Dr Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) turns the commonperception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head. Hercaptivating inquiry into the most modern and daring of technologies spanningsome 60 years -- a mere s ...Show more