In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and ...Show more
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics
In 1933, Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. "The Road to Oxiana" offers not only a wonderfu ...Show more
The Histories by Herodotus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Herodotus, from Halicarnassus, here displays his enquiries, that human achievement may be spared the ravages of time, and that everything great and astounding, and all the glory of those exploits which served to display Greeks and barbarians alike to such effect, be kept alive - and additionally, and m ...Show more
Ethics by Benedict Spinoza
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from ...Show more
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict, which poses new questions and provides new and often unexpected answers to the old ones' ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more
Emotional: The New Thinking about Feelings by Leonard Mlodinow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics
We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinkingYou make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how to influence people, and not one of them could ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science and how we understand the world around us' Steven Pinker 'Is reality virtual? It's a questio ...Show more
How We are: How to Live book 1 by Vincent Deary
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
We live in small worlds. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But what happens when something occurs, from within or without, that changes all that? The first book in the mesmerizing How To Live trilogy, How We Are examines how we negotiate change in our e ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds ...Show more