The View from the Cheap Seats - Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse in ...Show more
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain by Dario Fernandez-Morera
$60.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern Un ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Making Headlines by Chris Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
As editor-in-chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for over a dozen years. In this humorous and revealing book he gives first hand details about the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and med ...Show more
The Promise of Things by Ruth Quibell
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Some of our strongest, most lasting relationships are hidden in plain view:those we have with objects. What do our possessions do for us? And how do they do it? In The Promise of Things, Ruth Quibell explores what our possessions say about us: who we think we are, what we long for and struggle against. ...Show more
Why the Future is Workless : The Long, Slow Death of the Full-Time Job by Tim Dunlop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing. The landscape of work is changing right in front of us, from Uber, Airbnb and the new share economy to automated vehicles, 3D ...Show more
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
"Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the ...Show more
1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think by Robert Arp
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An elegant addition to the successful "1001" series--a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years. 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest mind ...Show more
You Are The Universe by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In this book, that combines cutting edge science with real world applications, Chopra and Kafatos redefine our nature of reality and what is possible. Here they ask 9 questions: What Came Before the Big Bang? Why Does the Universe Fit Together So Perfectly? Where Did Time Come From? What Is the Universe ...Show more
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
THE SUNDAY TIMESNUMBER 1 BESTSELLERThe crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe?s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, 'the emerging rock star of Europe?s anti-austerity uprising? (Telegraph), shows that th ...Show more
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep w ...Show more