Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels ...Show more
Origins: Early-Life Solutions to the Modern Health Crisis by Susan Prescott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The field of epigenetics is revolutionising our understanding of how environment shapes our genes. Dr Susan Prescott, a leading childhood immunologist, shows how the application of epigenetics through Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) is changing scientific research and public health. ...Show more
Very Good Lives : The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J. K. Rowling; Joel Holland (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a ...Show more
Supermarket Monsters: the Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance: Redback by Malcolm Knox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Redback Ser.
Down, down . . . In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia's retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this country spends $100 a week across their many outlets. What does such dominance mean for supplie ...Show more
Emergency - This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
$40.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
Combining wit and journalistic detail, Emergency follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island. Facing shady lawyers, cult leaders, crippling doubts, governmental corruption, and plane ...Show more
Country: A Continent, a Scientist and a Kangaroo by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Country is about the unique nature of Australia and about Flannery's own journey toward understanding it. Travelling thousands of kilometres, he encounters Aboriginal cultures and examines Europeans trying to understand this land. He begins to understand how Australia's deserts and rainforests have shap ...Show more
Who Gets What - and Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin Roth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have. In many parts of life - jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the internet - price is not the only determinant of who gets what. So how do the other processes that influence who gets which goods, jobs, ...Show more
Online Gravity by Paul X. McCarthy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Why have local video shops disappeared and been replaced by Netflix? Why are hotels being replaced by AirBNB? Why is your taxi driver from UBER? Why is Amazon the only company who can sell you the book you want to read? And why is there no Pepsi in cyberspace? They are all under the influence of Online ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minis ...Show more
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary. 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done. From historical tomes to comic boo ...Show more
How the French Think - An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle. Why are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France i ...Show more
Global Megatrends: Seven Patterns of Change Shaping Our Future by Stefan Hajkowicz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Global Megatrends tells a story about how the world will change over the next 20 years. 'Megatrends' are gradual yet powerful trajectories of change that have the potential to throw companies, individuals and societies into freefall. In Global Megatrends author Stefan Hajkowicz identifies seven patterns ...Show more