How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$36.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
Entangled Life Illustrated: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$65.00 AUD
Category: Nature
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'. Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'. Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an advent ...Show more
The War Came to Us - Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
$42.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a seasoned, personal perspective to his account of both the 16-month conflict and its wider roots.'Daily Telegraph'An eye-opening and deeply touching inside story of the country's long fight for freedom against Russian aggression.'WaterstonesA breathtaking explorati ...Show more
Spin Dictators by Daniel Treisman; Sergei Guriev
$34.99 AUD
Category: Journalism & Press
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recap Tayyip Erdog ...Show more
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
In the sixteenth century, Japanese monks developed the haiku, a poem consisting of (respectively) three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. Now, David Bader applies this ancient poetic form to 100 Great Books. From Homer to Milton to Dostoyevsky, the entire literary canon is finally withi ...Show more
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals by Richard Twine
$40.00 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Animal Politics Ser.
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our planet and the animals who live on it. Twine examines the impact of the climate crisis on nonhuman animals and argues for the importance of a climate and food justice movement inclusive of nonhuman animals. ...Show more
CANNIBAL PB by JONES LOIS
$16.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
German native Armin Meiwes placed this ad in an internet chatroom catering to cannibals. He received 430 responses. Among them was Bernd Juergen Brandes, who arrived at Meiwes's isolated country home literally to be eaten alive. Escorted to the "slaughtering room"--equipped with meat hooks, a cage, and ...Show more
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To by David Sinclair
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising, scientifically-proven methods that can help readers l ...Show more
Beyond DNA: How Epigenetics is Transforming our Understanding of Evolution by Benjamin Oldroyd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Uncover how a new approach to epigenetics affects the basis for our understanding of evolutionary biologyBeyond DNA is a journey through uncharted territory, advancing new ways of thinking about evolution and adaptation. For nearly a hundred years evolutionary biologists have understood that evolution p ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The greatest love story in English, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play of star-crossed lovers who take a valiant stand against social convention, with tragic consequences. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with notes by T.J.B. Spencer, and an introduction by Adrian Poole. 'What's ...Show more
Silk and Venom: The incredible lives of spiders by James O'Hanlon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature
There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority are completely harmless to humans.In Silk & Venom, James O’Hanlon takes us from his backyard to all corners of the globe (and even outer space!) to explore these fasc ...Show more