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WITH THE END IN MIND; DYING, DEATH AND WISDOM IN AN AGE OF DENIAL
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy RentzenbrinkWh...
View full detailsTHE TURING EXPERT NUMBER PUZZLES
Alan Turing is often called the father of modern computing. During World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park, where top secret work was carried out...
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Over 50 knots are covered, complete with clear full-colour photographs and step-by-step instructions to make the steps easy to follow. Each entry ...
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What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel...
View full detailsJAGUN A FIRST NATIONS COLOURING BOOK
Pronounced jooh-gun, meaning Country in Bundjalung language.Jagun celebrates the land, sky, waters, flora and fauna that together form Country. The...
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Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, c...
View full detailsWHY WE SLEEP: THE NEW SCIENCE OF SLEEP AND DREAMS
The phenomenal bestseller that's starting a sleep revolution, now in paperbackSleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and ...
View full detailsMEET ME AT THE INTERSECTION
Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or liv...
View full detailsWITH THE FALLING OF THE DUSK
In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democ...
View full detailsJOURNEYS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion were aiming to rec...
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Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to change our minds. Implicit bias leads us to dis...
View full detailsENDURE: MIND, BODY, AND THE CURIOUSLY ELASTIC LIMITS OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE
If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson’s En...
View full detailsWILD THINGS
When best-selling Australian children’s author Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, she assumed it would sort itself out over...
View full detailsTHE MYTH OF NORMAL
We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness and chronic disease are on an unstoppabl...
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THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological ...
View full detailsGUNS, GERMS AND STEEL
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and...
View full detailsONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DIRT
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, ...
View full detailsBLOWOUT
Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow. A blac...
View full detailsSTOLEN FOCUS: WHY YOU CAN'T PAY ATTENTION
A HUMAN KIND: A HOPEFUL HISTORY
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us an...
View full detailsSHE IS NOT YOUR REHAB
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...
View full detailsTAMBORA: TRAVELS TO SUMBAWA AND THE MOUNTAIN THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
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...
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