Live This Book by Tom Chatfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Do you want to spend more quality time with the people, ideas and passions that matter most in your life? In an age of weightless, disposable digital products, here's a book to help you live more fully: that invites you to explore your beliefs, ambitions, friendships, memories and flights of imagination ...Show more
Making Things Right - The Simple Philosophy of a Working Life by Ole Thorstensen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A celebration of craftsmanship, teamwork, and the relationship between contractor and client. An enriching and poetic tribute to manual labour.--Karl Ove Knausgaard Making Things Right is the simple yet captivating story of a loft renovation, from the moment master carpenter and contractor Ole T ...Show more
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans by Simon Head
$27.33 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)--the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of b ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Philosophy Park: A Beginner's Guide to Great Philosophy and Their Ideas by Philip Cam
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Park is a beginner's guide to philosophy, which introduces young readers to the ideas of some of the world's most famous philosophers, both ancient and modern. The book includes notes on each philosopher and a story based on what they had to say about a key philosophical issue or problem. Yet ...Show more
Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But, there is much more to them than that. Mitochondr ...Show more
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult. From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have ...Show more
Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality by Hannah Holmes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Are you neurotic, eager to please, and honest? Or cheerful, gregarious, and disorganised? Whatever you're like, with the tweak of a couple of genes, scientists can make a mouse just like you. And mice, and the scientists who study them, can tell us a lot about ourselves. As Hannah Holmes shows us by hum ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more
Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be...wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable,philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realis ...Show more
Sustainability: All That Matters by Chris Goodall
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Sustainability: All That Matters, by award-winning writer and campaigner Chris Goodall argues that building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has ever faced. Today's generation has borrowed from the future by grabbing prosperity now and imposing the cost on the next gener ...Show more