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  • Schopenhauer's Porcupines

    Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

    by Deborah Anna Luepnitz ...
    The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writerEach generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers likeDeborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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  • The Mapmaker's Wife

    A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon

    by Robert Whitaker ...
    In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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  • I Am a Strange Loop

    by Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"-a ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

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  • The Truth Will Set You Free

    Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

    by Alice Miller ...
    More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers, and ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • The Design of Future Things

    by Don Norman ...
    Donald A. Norman, a popular design consultant to car manufacturers, computer companies, and other industrial and design outfits, has seen the future and is worried. In this long-awaited follow-up to The Design of Everyday Things, he points out what's going wrong with the wave of products just coming on the market and some that are on drawing boards everywhere-from "smart" cars and homes that seek ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Play Anything

    The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

    by Ian Bogost ...
    How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient ageLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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  • Crossfire

    The Plot That Killed Kennedy

    by Jim Marrs ...
    The explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, "the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked." (Kirkus)Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassination? In Crossfire, Jim Marrs demonstrates that the facts are all there-they just need to be pieced together. Offering a wealth of evidence, including rare photos, documents, and interviews, Marrs, a ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Patient Will See You Now

    The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

    by Eric Topol, MD ...
    The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our healthA trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"-but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

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  • The Unschooled Mind

    How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

    by Howard E Gardner ...
    Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author. ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Acquiring Genomes

    A Theory Of The Origin Of Species

    by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan ...
    In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries of evolution -- the source of inherited variation that gives rise to new species. Random genetic mutation, long believed to be the main source of variation, is only a marginal factor. As the authors demonstrate in this book, the more important source of speciation, by far, is the ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • They Didn't See Us Coming

    The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

    by Lisa Levenstein ...
    From an award-winning scholar, a vibrant portrait of a pivotal moment in the history of the feminist movementFrom the declaration of the "Year of the Woman" to the televising of Anita Hill's testimony, from Bitch magazine to SisterSong's demands for reproductive justice: the 90s saw the birth of some of the most lasting aspects of contemporary feminism. Historian Lisa Levenstein tracks this time ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • The Evolution of Desire

    Strategies of Human Mating

    by David M. Buss ...
    A “drop-dead shocker” (Washington Post Book World) that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of loveIf we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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