Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis; Steven Kotler
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Exponential Technology Ser.
Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge--this is a book about how we rise to meet it.Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge--this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abunda ...Show more
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard 'He writes with gusto...the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely clever ...this book sizzles.' The Times 'The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
Diving for Seahorses by Hilde Østby; Ylva Østby
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory? Diving for Seahorses answers these questions and more, offering an illuminating look at one of our most fascinating faculties: our memory. Sisters Hilde and Ylva Østby - one an acclaimed writer the other a neuropsychologist-skilfu ...Show more
2,024 QI Facts to Stop You in Your Tracks by John Lloyd; James Harkin; Anne Miller
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new facts to stop you in your tracks... Humans glow in the dark. The Pope drives a blue Ford Focus. One of the moons of Uranus is called Ma ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and beyond by examining some astonishing facts that reveal the vast complexities of the universe.There is much about our world that seems to make perfect sense, and important scientific breakthro ...Show more
1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over by John Lloyd
$9.99 AUD
$22.99 (56% off)
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.Bees can play football.Cholesterol is good for you.Camels gave humans the common cold.English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness.In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold ...Show more
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins; Gillian Somerscales (ed.)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER.Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion- is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passiona ...Show more
How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life by Dr. Bob Rotella
$31.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. "Rotella's philosophy is astonishingly simple...his success rate...is phenomenal" (The New York Times). Now, for th ...Show more
The Edge of Memory - Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World by Patrick Nunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
We all know those stories that have been told in our families for generations. The ones that start 'Have I ever told you about your great-great-uncle...?' In some cultures these stories have been passed down for thousands of years and often reveal significant information about how the surrounding envi ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more