Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines by Malcolm Gay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
Imagine controlling a machine with your mind. Imagine a communication line direct from your mind to someone else's. Imagine controlling a prosthetic limb with a thought, or 'seeing' through a camera located miles away. Once the stuff of science fiction, such remarkable feats are now within the grasp of ...Show more
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga
$22.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
The prevailing orthodoxy in brain science is that since physical laws govern our physical brains, physical laws therefore govern our behaviour and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless, goes the mantra; we live in a 'determined' world. Not so, argues the renowned neuroscientist Michael S. ...Show more
John Farnham the Untold Story by Jane Gazzo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
John Farnham is nothing less than an Aussie icon. In a career spanning almost five decades, the likeable, charismatic star has entertained countless Australians of every generation, selling millions of records along the way. But his extraordinary story is as much about tackling adversity as it is about ...Show more
Red Hot Chili Peppers Treasures by Gillian G. Gaar
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The Red Hot Chili Peppers tells the incredible story of this epic band's rise to international fame, with words from acclaimed music pundit Gillian G. Gaar and a scorching collection of photos and rare facsimile memorabilia. No die-hard Chilis fan will want to miss this red-hot volume. Exploding out of ...Show more
Gurrumul-Cd by GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU
$35.45 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Blind from birth, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a powerhouse of musical creativity. A former member of Yothu Yindi, now with Saltwater Band, Gurrumul's solo excursions highlight his amazing talent as a singer/songwriter/musician, his beautiful voice singing the songs of his Gumatj country will never le ...Show more
Why I Write (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolutio ...Show more
Give Me Excess of It by Richard Gill
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Richard Gill is one of Australia's best-known and best-loved musical figures. His career has taken him from a music teacher in Sydney's western suburbs to the Music Director of the Victorian Opera, and along the way an involvement with almost every major opera company and orchestra in Australia. To the ...Show more
Phi : A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi
$59.99 AUD
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
This title is printed in full color throughout.From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other--as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a ...Show more
The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life by Uri Gneezy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do - and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve more. Uri Gneezy and John List are a little like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studyin ...Show more
Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
'A gripping tale of royal feuds and divided kingdoms' - AMANDA FOREMAN Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, THE RIVAL QUEENS is the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm ...Show more
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace m ...Show more
Imperial AmericaReflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal
$33.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the long-awaited conclusion to his bestselling trilogy, Vidal has written his most devastating exploration of Imperial America to date. Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California, he writes, has an American government been so nakedly predatory.