The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$26.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
Power vs Force: The Hidden Determinates of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: General Adult
Imagine--what if you had access to a simple yes-or-no answer to any question you wished to ask? A demonstrably true answer. Any question . . . think about it.-- from the ForewordWe think we live by forces we control, but in fact we are governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which we have ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
Beyond Weird ... Quantum Physics ... by Philip Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, addressing the question that most others fail to ask: what does quantum mechanics actually mean?'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili 'I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum ...Show more
Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Struggle for an Independent Voice in Kabul by Saad Mohseni, Jenna Krajeski
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
"Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. In the heady days early days of the American ...Show more
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia by Stephanie Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war against Russia after Putin's invasion of Ukraine - written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'One of the most remarkable books I have ever read' Susan Jeffers One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, thi ...Show more
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.--The New York Times Book Review A] bold and magnificent attempt to resurrect our Neanderthal kin.--The Wall Street Journal Kindred is the definitive guide to the ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more