Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: very good
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Fight for Planet A by Craig Reucassel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
What we can do when there's no planet B. Based on the hit ABC series - don't leave earth without it Most Australians accept that climate change is real, but many don't know what to do about it and feel powerless to make a difference. In Fight for Planet A, Craig Reucassel shows that it isn't as scary as ...Show more
A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever by Cal Newport
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Constant communication has become part of the way we work as we check our emails every 5.4 minutes. But at what expense?Bestselling author Cal Newport argues that this steady flow of distractions disrupts us from achieving any meaningful work, causes us undue stress and is costing businesses millions in ...Show more
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. When it comes to c ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$26.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: good
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
In Search of the Miraculous by P D Ouspensky
$33.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Harvest Book
A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson . Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal view. This h ...Show more
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
$18.99 AUD
Category: Essays
"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the 21st century. "-Boston Globe. In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. In true emulative and contrarian style, Hitchens i ...Show more
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and w ...Show more
Witches - What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Witches is a celebration of the power and pleasure of working with other women, and a powerful statement against the cultural conspiracy to keep us apart from one another - against the myths of the 'cool girl' or the 'catty workplace'. Sam George-Allen knows that women working together are formidable. S ...Show more
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary on Julian Assange: Short Black 9 by Robert Manne
$6.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one. This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutiona ...Show more