TED: The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Mark Kushner
$16.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Part of the TED series: The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings A pavilion made from paper. An inflatable concert hall. A building that eats smog. A bridge that grows grapes. The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings captures the soaring confidence, the thoughtful intelligence, the futuristic wond ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...Show more
Terror TunnelsThe Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas by Alan M. Dershowitz
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
At a time when Israel is under persistent attack—on the battlefield, by international organizations, and in the court of public opinion—Alan Dershowitz presents a powerful case for Israel's just war against terrorism. In the spirit of his international bestseller The Case for Israel, Dershowitz show ...Show more
Reason for Hope : A spiritual journey by Jane Goodall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Those who know Jane Goodall through her many books, speeches, and National Geographic television specials, know she is obviously no ordinary scientist. She is a genuinely spiritual woman who cares passionately about the preservation and enhancement of life in all its forms. Based upon the many spiritual ...Show more
The Shallows : How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understand ...Show more
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you r ...Show more
Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special by Liam Pieper
$9.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
Liam Pieper's made some poor life choices, but he's (usually) meant well. He's tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he's ended up with life-threatening infestations, a punch in the face at a Leonard Cohen concert and brief detention by counter-terr ...Show more
Great Divide by Joseph Stiglitz
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing problem. With his characteristic blend of clarity and pas ...Show more
TED: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
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Category: Essays | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: The Mathematics of Love There is no topic that attracts more attention-more energy and time and devotion- than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns. In her book The Mathematics of Love - and TEDxTalk of the ...Show more
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington
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Category: Essays
Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in I'll Have What She's Having, her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on 'sea vegetables' and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk. Where ...Show more
Triple Package: What Really Determines Success: What Really Determines Success by Amy Jed;Chua Rubenfeld
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Why do Jews win so many Nobel Prizes and Pulitzer Prizes? Why are Mormons running the business and finance sectors? Why do the children of even impoverished and poorly educated Chinese immigrants excel so remarkably at school? It may be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups starkly outperform others ...Show more
Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies by Julianne Schultz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'As a civil, pluralistic, liberal and democratic society, Australia did not pass the test of the crisis brought about by the war in Europe. The country suffered a setback in its political culture from which it did not recover until long after the next world war.' Gerhard Fische In the year that marks th ...Show more