Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he c ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
$65.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world by Alex Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achi ...Show more
Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift by Charmian Clift
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Category: Critical Thinking
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years i ...Show more
The Little Grey Book on Sex and Transgender by Patrick J. Byrne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The Orwell Tour - Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
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Category: Critical Thinking
A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote. Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell.Over three years he trav ...Show more
Meditations The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius; Robin Waterfield
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Category: Critical Thinking
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. As featured on the Today Show Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome--and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he ...Show more
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Critical Thinking
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A playbook for the future of the internet written by the world's most successful blockchain investor What will the internet of the future look like? The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of unbridled innovation. In the past decade, the interne ...Show more
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit
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Category: Critical Thinking
An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers 'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have be ...Show more
Marlow's Dream - Joseph Conrad in Antipodean Ports by Martin Edmond
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Category: Critical Thinking
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with the serialised publication of Heart of Darkness, Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, with sev ...Show more
Thinking in Pictures - Adventures in Trying to Be Smart by Michael Blastland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
An original and witty guide to the world of smart-thinking that uses pictures to show where it goes right and wrong, by the creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less.