Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.98 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...Show more
Hard Labour: wage theft in the age of inequality by Ben Schneiders
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
A startling investigation of how some of Australia's best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years. Whether it's at McDonald's, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billion ...Show more
Let's Talk About Hard Things: Death, Sex, Money, and Other Difficult Conversations by Anna Sale
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Death. Sex. Money. Tricky subjects we're taught to avoid in polite conversation. But if they're so unpleasant, why do so many people tune in regularly to hear Anna Sale asking perfect strangers about them? What if, rather than declaring them off-limits, we could all benefit from discussing them more?In ...Show more
138 Dates: The true story of one woman's search for everything by Rebekah Campbell
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Gripping, authentic and inspiring, Rebekah Campbell's quest to find love and happiness is packed with hilarious mistakes and insights that can help us all become better at relationships. 'This book will change lives. I couldn't put it down.' Fleur Brown, Founding Team TEDxSydney.'I laughed, learned a lo ...Show more
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call.But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the stat ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? The answer- too many people running the world don't have skin in the game. In this provocati ...Show more
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Humanity stands at a precipice. We live at a time of unprecedented innovation. Technology is accelerating faster than at any point in history, granting us ever greater power, and creating ever greater risk. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves o without developing the mo ...Show more
Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more