Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes (although he might, in a bur ...Show more
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious ...Show more
Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
Composting for a New Generation: Latest Techniques for the Bin and Beyond by Michelle Balz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Composting is no longer only in the realm of environmentalists! It's not just about reducing food waste; most composters get their hands dirty because of the benefits it brings to the soil in their garden. All the extra nutrients make for well-fed gardens with plenty of nutrients and rich moisture.Compo ...Show more
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World by Jeremy Rifkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economics
The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a s ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl Gift Edition by Clementine Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gender
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
The Universe: A Travel Guide - created in collaboration with NASA JPL by Lonely Planet
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
The world's first and only guide to the Universe The follow-up to the best-selling The World has been developed with NASA and is the world's first and only guide to the Universe. It explores in detail the planets within our solar system and informs readers of their distance from Earth, temperature and a ...Show more
The Invention of Air : An experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery by Stephen Johnson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. Stephen Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the develop ...Show more
Kay's Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body by Adam Kay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well... pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, a ...Show more
2019 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science
Compact and easy to use, this popular guide by well-known astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb has been providing stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky for over 25 years. The 2018 guide contains monthly astronomy maps, viewing tips and highlights, and details of the yea ...Show more
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence will change our world over the next 20 years. In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling an ...Show more