Readings Recommends: Cultural Studies
Mia Culpa
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
'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 questi... Buy or find out more →
Who Repo'd My Jet? The US's Manic Millionares And Why They'll Lead Us To The Next Boom And Bust
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Though intimate portraits of people who are named and on the record, Who Repo'd My Jet? chronicles the decline of the newly-moneyed class: their mortgaged mansion, blown-up balance sheets, repossessed Bentleys and Gulfst... Buy or find out more →
The Price Of Civilisation: Economics And Ethics After The Fall
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bodley Head
We have less time for global transformation than many hoped or expected. Our planet is crowded. Our natural resources are scarce. Serving as a call to action, leading economist Jeffrey Sachs brilliantly sets out his plan... Buy or find out more →
How The World Works
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
According to "The New York Times," Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speec... Buy or find out more →
Victorian Modern
$99.95 – Paperback book / Robin Boyd Foundation
Robin Boyd published his first book ‘Victorian Modern: 111 years of modern architecture in Victoria’ in 1947. Just prior to his death in 1971 Robin was in discussions with publishers to arrange a new edition of this impo... Buy or find out more →
Shadow Of A Great Rock The A Literary Appreciation Of The King James Bible
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
The King James Bible stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English," sharing the honor only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insight... Buy or find out more →
Thinking Fast And Slow
$29.95 – Paperback book / Allen Lane
The mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and Effort) pos... Buy or find out more →
Overboard: The Stories The Cruise Industry Doesn't Want Told
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Random House
Love boat, shining and new, come aboard, we're expecting you...' Expecting you to get drunk or diseased, fall overboard, participate in environmental degradation and generally act like a goat, that is. From the Achille L... Buy or find out more →
The Allergy Epidemic: A Modern Mystery Life
$29.95 – Paperback book / Univ West Aust Pr
Dr Susan Prescott, an internationally renowned specialist in childhood allergy and immunology, takes us on a journey into the world and science behind the allergy epidemic.
Why is allergic disease increasing so rapidly, ... Buy or find out more →
Women's Stuff
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Books
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Brutal Simplicity Of Thought
$24.95 – Hardcover book / 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 ... Buy or find out more →
Life of SYN: A Story Of The Digital Generation
$19.95 – Paperback book / Monash University Epress
SYN (Student Youth Network) is a media organisation run by people between the ages of 12 and 26. In this ‘coming of age story’, Ellie Rennie follows the SYNners as they build Australia’s most unusual media empire against... Buy or find out more →
Paramedico
$29.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
‘As you read this, more than a hundred thousand ambulance medics across the planet are responding to emergencies. They are scrambling under crashed cars, carrying the sick down flights of stairs, resuscitating near-dead ... Buy or find out more →
Childhood Under Seige
$32.95 – Paperback book / Bodley Head
'There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.’ Nelson Mandela
Joel Bakan, author of the international bestseller, The Corporation, takes Nelson Mandela’s words a... Buy or find out more →
The Cheat Sheet
$23.95 – Paperback book / Random House
A man is only as faithful as his options - Chris Rock There are three types of men: 1. Those who cheat 2. Those who have cheated in the past 3. Those who will cheat if placed in the right (or wrong) circumstances As hars... Buy or find out more →
A Point Of View
$32.99 – Paperback book / Macmillan
The BBC Radio 4 series,A Point of View, has been on the air since 2007. Over the years, it's had a variety of presenters – including the national treasure that is Clive James – talking for ten minutes about anything and ... Buy or find out more →
When Money Dies: The Nightmare Of The Weimar Hyper Inflation
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
In 1923, German currency became effectively worthless: the exchange rate in December of that year was one US dollar to 4200 trillion marks. The Weimar Republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, a... Buy or find out more →
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws And The Power Of Words
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Why does language move some of us to anxiety or even rage?
For centuries, sticklers have donned the cloak of authority to control how people use words. In this sensational new book, Robert Lane Greene strikes back to def... Buy or find out more →
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past
$26.95 – Paperback book / Faber
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-u... Buy or find out more →
Close To The Edge: In Search Of The Global Hip Hop Generation
$29.95 – Paperback book / Nsw University Pr
At its rhythmic, beating heart this book asks whether Hip Hop can change the world. Hip Hop – rapping, rhyming, b-boying, d-jaying, graffiti - captured the imagination of the teenage Sujatha Fernandes in the Sydney subur... Buy or find out more →
Big Porn Inc
$36.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
Pornography culture has become the dominant expression of an aggressive new sexual tyranny that now saturates popular culture and rapidly adapts new communication technologies. The contributors to Big Porn Inc show how t... Buy or find out more →
The Wizard Of Lies: Bernie Madoff And The Death Of Trust
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself.
Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
These q... Buy or find out more →
Hung Like An Argentine Duck: A Journey Back In Time To The Origins Of Sexual Intimacy
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
No doubt about it, sex sells. From homosexual penguins, lesbian ostriches to necrophiliac snakes and fellating fruitbats, it′s all here in this unusual little book.
Dr John Long discovered the Gogo Fish. What′s that yo... Buy or find out more →
Zero Degrees Of Empathy: A New Theory Of Human Cruelty
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has carried out groundbreaking research to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this... Buy or find out more →
Extreme Money: The masters of the universe and the cult of risk
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Portobello
The bestselling author of Traders, Guns & Money on how money and finance enslaved the world.
Once, we built things – useful things. Now, we construct immense financial structures from thin air and lies. We have craft... Buy or find out more →
8 Steps to Happiness: An Everyday Handbook
$14.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Based on the hit ABC TV series Making Australia Happy, this practical, everyday handbook shows you how to become a happier person in just eight weeks. The simple exercises and activities in 8 Steps to Happiness are profo... Buy or find out more →
The Neurotourist: Postcards From The Edge Of Brain Science
$19.95 – Paperback book / Oneworld Pubn
Acclaimed journalist and intrepid brain "explorer" Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience to reveal how today's top scientists are reinventing human nature, morality, happiness, he... Buy or find out more →
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Are you a baby boomer feeling out of touch with today’s modern dudes? Why do those Gen Ys wear their underpants so high and their jeans so low? Perhaps you are a member of Generation X, stuck like the proverbial meat in ... Buy or find out more →
Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom And Australia's Future
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
'We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck—a lot of luck without the planning or strategy to make sure our good fortune lasts.'—Paul Cleary
In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows that the r... Buy or find out more →
Moby Duck
$35.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them.
A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern ... Buy or find out more →
Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins Of Modern Sexuality
$27.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Since Darwin’s day, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science — as well as religious and cultural institutions — has maintained that men and women evolved in families in whic... Buy or find out more →
Culture In A Liquid Modern World
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contempo... Buy or find out more →
Dante In Love
$55.00 – Hardcover book / Atlantic Books
For over half a millennium, The Divine Comedy has inspired writers from Shakespeare to Beckett. Dante's epic journey - out of the raging inferno to the gates of paradise - continues to dazzle readers today. Tennyson base... Buy or find out more →
Hitchens Vs Blair: Be It Resolved Religion Is A Force For Good In The World
$14.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Two of the most formidable intellects of our generation. One powerfully charged debate on a subject set to ignite furious discussion. One riveting reading experience.
'An intellectual faceoff...Full of sharp humour, and ... Buy or find out more →
Guns Germs And Steel
$29.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Playaway is the simplest way to listen to audio on the go. Each Playaway comes with the digital content already pre-loaded on it and a battery to make it play. Simply plug in earbuds and enjoy. Each ultra-portable Playaw... Buy or find out more →
The Psychopath Test
$0.00 – Paperback book / Macmillan
This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challen... Buy or find out more →
The Big Tilt: What Happens When The Boomers Bust and Xers and Ys Inherit The Earth
$29.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Baby bust. Environmental blasphemy. The hotness delusion syndrome. These are just some of the intriguing new phenomena this next decade may yield. The past decade has provided us with a lot of fodder for prognostications... Buy or find out more →
The Next Decade: Where We've Been And Where We're Going
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
'There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8-Ball.' (New York Times Magazine)
The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopoliti... Buy or find out more →
Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped The Modern World
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
Why are people getting fatter?
Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27?
Is there any hope of curbing population growth, rampant consumerism and the environmental devastation they wreak?
Evolutionary biologist Rob Bro... Buy or find out more →
The Anatomy Of Influence: Literature As A Way Of Life
$45.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate."
For more than half a century, Bloom has share... Buy or find out more →
Iphigenia In Forest Hills: Anatomy Of A Murder Trial
$35.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
"Astringent and absorbing..."Iphigenia in Forest Hills" casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell -- the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm's admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."--Dwight Garner, "New York Ti... Buy or find out more →
Super Cooperators: Altruism, Evolution And Mathematics Or Why We Need Each Other To Succeed
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Darwin’s theory of evolution is infamous but it has one major chink. If life is all about survival of the fittest, then why do people risk their lives to save strangers? And what about charity and fairness? Why do we coo... Buy or find out more →
Yuck: Nature And Moral Significance Of Disgust
$43.95 – Hardcover book / Mit Press
People can be disgusted by the concrete and by the abstract--by an object they find physically repellent or by an ideology or value system they find morally abhorrent. Different things will disgust different people, depe... Buy or find out more →
Ballets Russes In Australia And Beyond
$75.00 – Hardcover book / Wakefield Press
‘How lucky for us to have seen the amazing artists of the Ballets Russes in performance and to have had some of them live amongst us here in Australia, sharing their art, wisdom and life experiences. Their personalities ... Buy or find out more →
Bento's Sketchbook
$36.00 – Hardcover book / Verso
From the author of the modern classics Ways of Seeing and To the Wedding (“Wherever I live in the world . . . I have this book with me.”—Michael Ondaatje), a singularly conceived, beautifully written consideration of how... Buy or find out more →
Chocolate Nations: Living And Dying For Cocoa In West Africa
$22.95 – Paperback book / Zed Books
FROM BEAN TO BAR - WHERE DOES YOUR CHOCOLATE COME FROM?
Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury...
From th... Buy or find out more →
The Good Book: A Secular Bible
$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
Britain's most popular philosopher on all that it means to be human in a secular age.
Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the... Buy or find out more →
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years Of Life On Earth
$10.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
In this major new book, paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly shows how what we do to the environment in the 21st century will affect the next 100,000 years of life on this planet.
Most of us have accepted that our plan... Buy or find out more →
Indignez-Vous
$9.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Proving that age is no boundary to publishing success, the French book world has been taken by storm by a surprise Christmas bestseller: a political call to arms by Stéphane Hessel, 93.
The unlikely publishing sensation... Buy or find out more →
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, toothbrushes, babies bottles and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realise it’s not such a healthy rela... Buy or find out more →
The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries For Health And Long Life From The Landmark Eight-Decade Study The
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
This landmark study--which Dr. Andrew Weil calls "a remarkable achievement with surprising conclusions"--upends the advice we have been told about how to live to a healthy old age.
We have been told that the key to longe... Buy or find out more →
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers "Chaos" and "Genius, " now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defi... Buy or find out more →
The Googlization Of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Univ California Pr
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission - 'To organize... Buy or find out more →
Faulks On Fiction: The Secret Life of the Novel
$35.00$14.95 – Trade paperback / Bbc Books
A social history of Britain through its literature by bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks - published to coincide with his landmark series on BBC2
The British invented the novel, with the publication of Robinson Crusoe... Buy or find out more →
Delusions Of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
$22.99 – Paperback book / Icon Books
A passionately argued and much-needed corrective to the belief that men's and women's brains are intrinsically different.
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientifi... Buy or find out more →
God Is Not One: The Rival Religions That Run The World And Why Their Differences Matter
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
A fascinating guide to religion and its place in the world today.
In God Is Not One, bestselling author Stephen Prothero makes a fresh and provocative argument that, contrary to popular understanding, all religions are n... Buy or find out more →
The Sex Diaries: Why Women Go Off Sex and Other Bedroom Battles Bettina Arndt
$24.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
In The Sex Diaries Australia’s best known sex therapist, Bettina Arndt, uncovers the night-time drama being played out in bedrooms everywhere—the creeping hand and feigning of sleep, the staying up late in the hope that ... Buy or find out more →
The Band That Played On: The Extaordinary Story Of The Eight Musicians Who Went Down With The Titanic
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Published to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic’s launch comes this inspiring portrait of music and courage
When the Titanic collided with an iceberg on April 14th 1912, the eight members of the ship... Buy or find out more →
Against Remembrance
$19.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
In his searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gal... Buy or find out more →
Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other And The World
$23.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.
In one corner, Bernard-He... Buy or find out more →
Age Of Absurdity Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy
$24.99 – Paperback book / Simon & Schuster
The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. Th... Buy or find out more →
Oprah The Gospel Of An Icon
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr
'Today on Oprah', intones the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tune in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates the Oprah phenomenon and finds in Winfrey's empire - Harpo Pr... Buy or find out more →
Net Delusion How Not To Liberate The World
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen Lane
Shows us how our misplaced faith in cyber-utopia means the West risks missing the real challenges. This title argues that we must look at other ways of promoting democracy abroad, and forces us - policymakers and citizen... Buy or find out more →
Love Of The World
$24.99 – Paperback book / Faber
John McGahern did not spread himself thinly as a writer. Nearly all of his creative energy went into what was central for him: the great novels and stories that are now part of the canon of Irish and world literature. Ye... Buy or find out more →
Behind The Veil Of Vice The Business And Culture Of Sex In The Middle East
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Palgrave
Takes a deep look at sex, vice and exploitation in the Middle East and examines the hypocrisy of a region that is, on one hand, steeped in religion, and on the other, struggles with human sex trafficking and prostitution... Buy or find out more →
Wilful Blindness Why We Ignore The Obvious At Our Peril
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster
In the 2006 case of the US Government vs Enron, the presiding judge instructed the jurors to take account of the concept of wilful blindness as they reached their verdict about whether the chief executives of the disgrac... Buy or find out more →
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Wrong And Why We Believe Them Anyway
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
For fans of Blink, The Tipping Point, and Freakonomics, here is a brilliant, funny, and accessible exploration of our flawed quest for certainty.
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it w... Buy or find out more →
Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think? The Nets Impact On Our Minds And Future
$20.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org,... Buy or find out more →
Price Of Everything
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
The Price of Everything starts with a simple premise: there is a price behind each choice that we make individual or collective. Whether we're deciding to buy a cheeseburger, go to church, or enact health care reform, ev... Buy or find out more →
Incivility, The Rude Stranger In Everyday Life
$44.95 – Trade paperback / Cambridge Univ Pres
Has anyone ever pushed in front of you in a queue? Stolen your parking space? Talked on their mobile phone during a film at the cinema? In our everyday lives we all encounter rude and inconsiderate people. This unique bo... Buy or find out more →
Essays On Muslims And Multiculturalism
$26.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
September 11, 2001 marked a change in Australian attitudes towards immigrants. The spotlight was on Muslims. This collection of thought-provoking essays looks at multiculturalism's successes and failures in providing a s... Buy or find out more →
Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet
$24.95 – Paperback book / Uwap
Somewhere between The Tipping Point and Mad Men lies Adland.
Adland is the wickedly funny, compelling personal chronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man; a riveting insider’s look at the astonishing transform... Buy or find out more →
Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
$34.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have bee... Buy or find out more →
The Fair Trade Revolution
$24.95 – Paperback book / Pluto Press
Fair Trade has come a long way in the last 20 years. The Fair Trade Revolution celebrates the movement's achievement and takes up the challenge of improving more lives through fair dealing with producers.
Fair Trade is n... Buy or find out more →
Spirit Level Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than the Japanese do? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer in each case: inequa... Buy or find out more →
Making Girls And Boys: Inside The Science Of Sex
$34.95 – Paperback book / New South Books
What is it that makes a person a boy or a girl? From our cradles to our graves, a pair of letters, either XX or XY, will define much of our lives. “It’s a girl!” or “It’s a boy!” will be the first label applied to us, th... Buy or find out more →
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait Of A Nation's Remaking
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
Reversing his parents’ immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new.
Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly p... Buy or find out more →
Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy
$19.95 – Paperback book / Guardian Books
The first inside and in-depth account of WikiLeaks
The extraordinary twists and turns of the WikiLeaks drama have been closely followed by the Guardian newspaper ever since the website launched in 2006, and Guardian jour... Buy or find out more →
Inside Wikileaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website
$29.95$0.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
An explosive and deeply revealing exposé of the 'World's Most Dangerous Website', by former WikiLeaks insider and spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
Since its launch in 2006, WikiLeaks has rapidly grown into the most powe... Buy or find out more →
The Amazing Story Of Quantum Mechanics: A Math Free Exploration Of The Science That Made Our World
$34.99 – Paperback book / Duckworth
In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants. Obviously, things didn't turn out that way. B... Buy or find out more →
Future Babble Why Expert Predictions Fail And Why We Believethem Anyway
$41.95 – Hardcover book / Scribe Publications
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year ... Buy or find out more →
Priceless: The Myth Of Fair Value And How To Take Advantage Of It
$26.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
People used to download music for free; then Steve Jobs convinced them to pay for it. How? By charging 99 cents. Prada and other luxury stores stock a few obscenely expensive items — just to make the rest of their invent... Buy or find out more →
Consumer Republic: Using Brands To Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave And Maybe Even Save The World
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
If we really want to save the world, maybe we should start at the mall.
Consumer Republic’s message begins with this single, inarguable truth: brands make corporations accountable. Expensive to create, essential to makin... Buy or find out more →
Life Of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere
$29.99 – Hardcover book / Aurum Press
Alchemists sought gold in it. David Bowie refrigerated it to ward off evil. In the trenches of Ypres soldiers used it as a gas mask, whereas modern-day terrorists add it to home-made explosives. All the Fullers, Tuckers ... Buy or find out more →
Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage
$24.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
The eagerly awaited sequel to the astonishing international bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love.
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australi... Buy or find out more →
The Devil's Milk: A Social History Of Rubber
$36.95 – Paperback book / Monthly Review Press
Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitiv... Buy or find out more →
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth And The Vaccination Debate
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
In 1998 Andrew Wakefield claimed to have found a link between a common childhood vaccine and autism. Wakefield based his findings on a case study of just a dozen children, and his methods and conclusions almost immediate... Buy or find out more →
Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape The Global Economy
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Times Publications
A Harvard-trained economist’s startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions.
As individuals, companies, and countries ... Buy or find out more →
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat To Democracy
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
'A gripping political thriller, a masterpiece of investigative journalism' - Peter Manseau, author of Rag and Bone
The secretive Christian fundamentalist group known as 'The Family' is leading a new crusade for 'God-led ... Buy or find out more →
School Blues
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Maclehose Press
Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized tha... Buy or find out more →
A Lighter Footprint
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Climate change is perhaps the most important issue facing the world today. A Lighter Footprint compiles the latest research, statistics and information specifically for Australians on how to minimise our impact on the en... Buy or find out more →
The Rose: An Illustrated History
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Atlantic Books
The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century Europe. The Madonna lily may match the white r... Buy or find out more →
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Thames And Hudson
Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award.
In this new and engaging study Alex Harris presents a confident case for the interest and importance of the English arts during the modern period. During the 1930s and 1940s,... Buy or find out more →
Teach Us To Sit Still
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An inspiring and entertaining true story of a sceptic's journey into the world of meditation and alternative health.
‘Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in... Buy or find out more →
Home and Away: In Search of Dreams at the Homeless World Cup
$26.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
With a keen eye and a pair of goalkeeping gloves, award-winning author and filmmaker Dave Bidini followed a ragtag group of soccer players, homeless residents of the Canadian streets, to Melbourne for one of the humblest... Buy or find out more →
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
$34.95 – Paperback book / Spinifex Press
Pornland takes an unflinching look at pornography and its effect on our lives, showing that today's pornography is strikingly different from yesterday's Playboy. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a ne... Buy or find out more →
Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Granta
This title presents a fascinating history of classical ballet which takes us from its origins in 18th century France through the Italian influence in the 19th century, the dominance of Russia in the late 19th and early 2... Buy or find out more →
Pygmonia: My Quest For The Secret Land Of The Pygmies
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
ONE MAN'S QUEST TO UNCOVER THE HIDDEN LAND OF THE PYGMIES
Archaeologist Peter McAllister had never given much thought to Pygmies. When he chanced upon an early 20th-century photograph of Pygmy-sized people in far north Q... Buy or find out more →
Self Comes To Mind: Constructing The Conscious Brain
$40.95 – Hardcover book / Pantheon
As he has done previously, USC neuroscientist Damasio (Descartes' Error) explores the process that leads to consciousness. And as he has also done previously, he alternates between some exquisite passages that represent ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Lists
$26.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
The Book of Lists is the first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia. It has spawned many imitators - but none as addictive or successful.
For nearly thre... Buy or find out more →
The Country Diaries
$23.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
Edited and introduced by Alan Taylor
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. In this fine treasur... Buy or find out more →
The Ancient Guide To Modern Life
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Profile
Whether political, cultural, or social, there are endless parallels between the ancient and modern worlds. Whether it's the murder of Caesar or the political assassination of Thatcher; the narrative arc of the hit "HBO S... Buy or find out more →
Shock Of Gray
$35.00 – Hardcover book / Scribner
The New York Times bestselling author of China, Inc. reports on the astounding economic and political ramifications of an aging world.
The world's population is rapidly aging—by the year 2030, one billion people will be ... Buy or find out more →
Choke: Use the Secrets of Your Brain to Succeed When It Matters Most
$36.99$12.95 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Why do you mess up when it matters the most - and how can you perform your best instead?
It happens to all of us. You've prepared for days, weeks, even years, for the big day when you will finally show your stuff - in ac... Buy or find out more →
The Offensive Internet: Privacy, Speech And The Internet
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr
The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and com... Buy or find out more →
The Force: Living Safely In A World Of Electromagnetic Pollution
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Technology infiltrates our lives so rapidly that few of us stop to consider the potential health implications. Yet could the technology designed to improve our lives actually be making us sick?
Scientists have long belie... Buy or find out more →
Gods And Diseases: Making Sense Of Our Physical And Spiritual Wellbeing
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
There are many problems in today′s society that cannot be resolved by the applications of reason, logic or medical science. These include child abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide. Numerous mental health probl... Buy or find out more →
Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration And The Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
$39.95 – Hardcover book / New Press
Coins, a crucifix, a padlock, safety-pins, a toy goat… Cappello studies the life of Dr Chevalier Jackson, as well as musing on the baffling psychology that compels people to swallow unusual things. Dr Jackson became a sp... Buy or find out more →
Brain Rules For Baby: How To Raise A Smart And Happy Child From Zero To Five
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A groundbreaking new book from the author the New York Times bestselling author of Brain Rules
What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the b... Buy or find out more →
The Procrastination Equation
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Pier 9
Why do kitchens need to be cleaned the night before the final exams? Why does the arrival of a new email suddenly seem more important than a crucial sales pitch? And why does a healthy diet always start tomorrow? Writing... Buy or find out more →
Eating Animals
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
Eating Animals is a riveting exposé which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quick... Buy or find out more →
Talking To The Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values And What It Means To Be Human
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
"Talking to the Enemy" is an intellectually and personally courageous exploration of one of the most contentious issues of modern times. Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to I... Buy or find out more →
The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History Of The Last Boom And The Next Bust
$0.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked when she was sacked herself. The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis and the people w... Buy or find out more →
We Have Met The Enemy: Self-Control In An Age Of Excess
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
A witty and wide-ranging investigation of the central problem of our time: how to save ourselves from what we want.
Freedom is dangerous. Half of all deaths in America, for instance, come from overeating, smoking, drinki... Buy or find out more →
Cracking The Carbon Code: The Key To Sustainable Profits In The New Economy
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Palgrave
The carbon market is a new one, so investing in it is not as easy as it could be. The market is extremely volatile and very illiquid, to say nothing of being at the mercy of the whims of politicians. Still, that doesn’t ... Buy or find out more →
The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
The Big Short tells a story of spectacular, epic folly.
It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller Liar's Poker expo... Buy or find out more →
The Gilded Stage: A Social History Of Opera
$45.00 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
The first and only global social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: opera.
The Gilded Stage is a comprehensive tour of the world of opera. From its origins i... Buy or find out more →
The Green Scorecard: Measuring The Return On Investment In Green Initiatives
$35.00 – Paperback book / Nicholas Brealey
How to know which sustainability efforts are worthwhile.
From solar panels to company-wide recycling programs to supply chain decisions: green is here to stay. With today's emphasis on green investment, no longer is a co... Buy or find out more →