On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* 'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' - Olivia Laing So often deployed as ...Show more
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th ...Show more
On Getting Off - Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young
$24.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' — Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explo ...Show more
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the "Studies in Grand Strategy" seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its p ...Show more
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject by A. Zee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativity Of the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments when ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: On ... Series
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
On Identity by Stan Grant
$16.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: On Series
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately ho ...Show more
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
$29.99 AUD
Category: Health
When Eula Biss became a mother, she stepped into a new world of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, the contents of her child's air, food, mattress and vaccines. In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity, and its ...Show more
On JM Coetzee: Writers on Writers - Ceridwen Dovey by Ceridwen Dovey
$17.99 AUD
Category: Art & Design
'I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared ...Show more
On John Marsden: Writers on Writers by Alice Pung
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art & Design
An original and moving look by award-winning writer Alice Pung at one of her biggest influences - the much-loved and hugely successful writer John Marsden.In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these ...Show more
On Kate Jennings : Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen
$4.50 AUD
$17.99 (74% off)
Category: Art & Design
Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake- a work of art that depicts rura ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips
$4.99 AUD
$19.95 (74% off)
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are ...Show more