New Social Studies
MP3: The Meaning of a Format
$45.00 – Paperback / Duke University Press
MP3: The Meaning of a Formatrecounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital... Buy or find out more→
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance
$23.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
In this enchanting tour of French literaturea from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21sta Yalom attempts to unravel the mystery of how the French manage their... Buy or find out more→
The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
$34.99 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan
Writing by hand is something that has shaped and revealed our humanity for thousands of years. In a world where people are increasingly swapping pens, letters and love-notes for typing text messages with their thumbs, The... Buy or find out more→
People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures
$39.95 – Paperback / Federation Press
Over the past four decades Aboriginal people living in remote and regional Australia have been empowered by land rights and native title laws to claim back large tracts of their ancestral lands. Today the Indigenous... Buy or find out more→
Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions
$19.95 – Paperback / The Westbourne Press
Mixing personal experiences with more global facts and considerations, Joumana Haddad, author of 'I Killed Scheherazade' reflects, in what could be considered the sequel of her exploration of Arab womanhood, upon the vital need... Buy or find out more→
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
$21.99 – Paperback / The Perseus Books Group
Consider Facebook--it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more... Buy or find out more→
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
$29.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Happiness Project, " Rubin embarks on a new project: to make home a happier place. Buy or find out more→
How Much is Enough?: The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life
$35.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening. Anger at... Buy or find out more→
Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What it Means for Us
$29.99 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global... Buy or find out more→
Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resource Rush
$24.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
‘It is not a case of governments and companies putting royalties and profits before people; instead it is as though people don’t matter at all …’ In Mine-Field, Paul Cleary counts the true cost of Australia’s... Buy or find out more→
Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us About Ourselves
$27.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Subliminal is all about how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world far more than we realize, from our relationships with family, friends and business associates to the way we handle money and even our... Buy or find out more→
Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We are
$19.99 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Like many of her generation, the author grew up on antidepressants. In this book, she tells the story of the societal and scientific perfect storm that led to the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs explosion in the... Buy or find out more→
Journalism at the Crossroads: Crisis and Opportunity for the Press
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Considers role of journalist in new media landscape, why we still need quality news reporting, how new technologies enhance traditional reporting, how journalists &citizens can work together to break stories. Simons coordinator of... Buy or find out more→
Living, Thinking, Looking
$22.99 – Paperback / Hodder & Stoughton General Division
A dazzling collection of essays by the bestselling author of What I Loved - thought-provoking, engaging, illuminating reflections on what it means to be human. Buy or find out more→
Pieces Of Mind 21 Short Walks Around The Human Brain
$19.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe. Modern computers might be faster, and whales might have larger brains, but neither can match the sheer intellect or capacity for creativity that we humans enjoy. Buy or find out more→
History Of Books
$26.95 – Paperback / Giramondo Publishing Co
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader... Buy or find out more→
The Office: A Hardworking History
$45.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
A lively social and cultural history of the office, blending its birth, growth and emergence as a means of organising a company, an institution or a bureaucracy to the place in which most of us spend more time than any... Buy or find out more→
The Novels of Alex Miller
$40.00 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
One of Australia's most respected novelists, Alex Miller's writing is both popular and critically well-received. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has said that writing is... Buy or find out more→
Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement from 1971 to 1979
$29.95 – Paperback / Fremantle Press
This is the story of the birth and early years of Greenpeace, the most important environmental activist organisation to come out of North America. It was first published in 1979 and written by founder and journalist Bob Hunter,... Buy or find out more→
Demons
$20.00 – Paperback / Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
A collection that explores demons in many forms - from spirit possession of the human soul to fallen angels and the devil - through thirty-five stories from the writers of horror and fantasy including Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker,... Buy or find out more→
Mia Culpa
$19.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
'Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Engaging stuff.' SUNDAY AGE Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask 'What do you write about?' Tricky... Buy or find out more→
How The World Works
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. This title collects speeches and interviews with Chomsky. It includes What Uncle Sam Really... Buy or find out more→
The Table Comes First
$40.00 – Hardback / Quercus Publishing Plc
Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows... Buy or find out more→
Boyer Lectures 2011 Idea Of Home
$25.00 – Paperback / ABC Books
For The Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of At Home in the World. Buy or find out more→
Women's Stuff
$59.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Whether you're starting or ending a relationship, a friend has found a lump in her breast, you're in debt, your partner's lost interest in sex or you don't know whether to believe the moisturiser label, Women's Stuff is your... Buy or find out more→
Women of Letters
$29.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Australia
In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter. In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created... Buy or find out more→
Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How it Changed the World
$24.95 – Hardback / Ebury Press
Simplicity looks easy. It’s not. It’s easier to complicate than simplify. No one knows this better than Maurice Saatchi, the man behind the world’s most successful advertising agency. In this book he presents stunningly simple... Buy or find out more→