The Address Book: What Our Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Power, Race and Wealth by Deirdre Mask
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful. Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says abou ...Show more
The Adventure of French Philosophy by Bruno; Bosteels Alain; Bosteels Badiou
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the French Moment in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first time in Englis ...Show more
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Ill. Lilian Melcher
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist ...Show more
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Henry David Thoreau is an American intellectual icon; what made him so was the decade between his graduation from Harvard and the years he spent in a cabin he built himself on Ralph Waldo Emerson's land at Walden Pond--the formative decade that turned him into one of America's most influential writers. ...Show more
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society's finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a c ...Show more
The Advice Trap by Michael Bungay Stanier
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business
Hi there, it's Michael, the author. You might know my previous book, The Coaching Habit. It was an unexpected bestseller: more than 700,000 copies sold so far, 1,000+ 5-star reviews on Amazon (my favourite: "I have plodded through many books that wish they could be this book"), a Wall Street Journal bes ...Show more
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron AgeContinuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC by Oliver Dickinson
$66.99 AUD
Category: History
Following Oliver Dickinson's successful The Aegean Bronze Age, this textbook is a synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civilization in the eighth century BC. With chapter bibliographies, distrib ...Show more
The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: Life, Death and Everything Afterwards by Annie Kagan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Annie Kagan is not a medium or a psychic, she did not die and come back to life; in fact, when she was awakened by her deceased brother, she thought perhaps she had gone a little crazy. In The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death, Kagan shares the ext ...Show more
The Age of A. I. - And Our Human Future by Henry A. Kissinger; Eric Schmidt; Daniel Huttenlocher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Not since the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach knowledge, politics, economics, even warfare. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore what it means ...Show more
The Age of Anxiety - A Novel by Pete Townshend
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discover ...Show more
The Age of Anxiety: A Novel by Pete Townshend
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he h ...Show more
The Age of Bowie - How David Bowie Made a World of Difference by Paul Morley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
'A handsome six footer with a warm and engaging personality, Davie Jones has all it takes to get to the show business heights including ...talent.' David Bowie at 17 in May, 1964 writing his own press biography. Respected arts commentator Paul Morley, one of the team who curated the highly successful re ...Show more