The Symposium by Plato
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge t ...Show more
My First Atlas of Animals by CHRISTINA BANFI
$37.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In this big format atlas of the world, children will find in each spread a different continent with some of the most famous or curious animals represented but... some are missing! Don't worry, in the last page of the book, children will find the missing animals that can be taken out and built in 3D, to ...Show more
My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation It occurred to me then that the thing that made me the sickest, the thing that made me suffer most, was the fact that I felt so compelled to hide what had bee ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance — The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 by Stephen Gapps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In mid-1824, the Bathurst district was under siege. Local Wiradjuri people had broken off contact with colonists and vowed to kill all invading white men. Warriors raided outstations, killing people and stock with impunity while large warbands threatened convict stock-workers who either fled or cowered ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop. This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, m ...Show more
The Canberry Tales - Salacious Satire from the Culture Wars by Rowan Dean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
"The latest hilarious collection of Rowan Deans weekly satirical columns in the AFR Weekend poking fun at the craziness of political correctness gone mad, cancel culture and woke identity politics in Australias modern political world from 2017 to the present, including the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, th ...Show more
Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestion by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$9.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A powerful statement about feminism today from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her bab ...Show more
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Penguin American Library
One of the great classics on democracy, "Rights of Man" was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
An exquisite new edition of the true crime classic; 'a classic' (John le Carré)Saville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot.On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family aw ...Show more
A World Without Email: Find Focus and Transform the Way You Work Forever by Cal Newport
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Constant communication has become part of the way we work as we check our emails every 5.4 minutes. But at what expense?Bestselling author Cal Newport argues that this steady flow of distractions disrupts us from achieving any meaningful work, causes us undue stress and is costing businesses millions in ...Show more
On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck by Nick Riggle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In this original, fun, and slyly helpful investigation of a thoroughly modern condition, pro-skater-turned-philosopher Nick Riggle argues that our collective interest in being awesome (and not sucking) marks a new era in American culture, one that is shaped by relatively recent social, cultural and tech ...Show more