On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to Dawkins by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years. This lively history traces the evolution of the idea of evolution, showing how it ha ...Show more
Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World by Peter Christoff
$39.95 AUD
Category: Environment
At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal. Inst ...Show more
365 Ways to Change the World : How to make a difference - one day at a time by Michael Norton
$12.50 AUD
Category: Environment
The ultimate answer for anyone who has ever asked "how can I make a difference?", this ingenious handbook shows how the smallest actions can impact on your local community and the wider world. First published 2006.
The Velocity of Honey and More Science of Everyday Life by Jay Ingram
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
Why doesn't honey flow out in all direction across your toast? What's the science behind the theory of 'six degrees of separation'? How do stones 'skip'? When visiting a new place, why does getting there always seem to take so much longer that returning home? In The Velocity of Honey, bestselling au ...Show more
2020 Dictionary by Dominic Knight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
2020 sucked. It's been a year of bushfires, floods, a recession, a global pandemic and Kanye West's presidential campaign. But it was also the year we all watched Hamilton, baked sourdough, had dinner parties on Zoom and drank constantly - okay, so maybe that wasn't such a great thing either.Amid the no ...Show more
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency from perhaps his closest collaborator, and a political memoir about the power of words to change our world This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama ...Show more
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote "The Book of Five Rings," a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive and incisive texts on strategic thinking ever to com ...Show more
Fabulously Feisty Queens - 15 of the Brightest and Boldest Women Who Have Ruled the World by Valerie Wilding; Pauline Reeves (Illustrator); Lucy Worsley (Foreword by)
$15.99 AUD
Category: Gender
Who needs a Prince Charming when you're busy running the world? Do you know about the fierce and fearsome pirate who dared to challenge the Queen of England? Or the Indian daughter of a slave who became a warrior queen? And what about the Hungarian princess who became a king when she was just 11...? F ...Show more
The Cure for Hate - A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion by Tony McAleer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi groups in Canada and the United States? The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Reading Level: Adult
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Antipodean China - Reflections on Literary Exchange by Nicholas Jose (Editor); Benjamin Madden (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke a ...Show more
The Great Philosophers: Socrates by Anthony Gottlieb
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.'So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His word ...Show more