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  hen LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychologica...

  Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography ...

  It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us an...

Mataio (Matt) Faafetai Malietoa Brown offers the men in his barbershop a haircut with a difference: a safe space to be seen and heard without judge...

 In the best tradition of Paul Theroux and J. Maarten Troost, comes Derek Pugh's torrid tale of Sumbawa, and his ascent of the iconic volcano Mt. T...

   From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraor...

'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular ...

In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He uncovers a handful o...

The ultimate book about growing up in Australia - a choice selection of wonderful stories and recollections This special collection is the perfect...

An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed world The gripping, deeply mo...

Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and how it makes its home in our hearts a...

Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that wil...

ILLNESS, MEDICINE AND WHAT MATTERS IN THE END For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether yo...

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days d...

The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charle...

A condensed guide to life from the bestselling author of "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Bed of Procrustes" is an invaluable collect...