The Immortal Mind - Science and the Continuity of Consc...
Evidence now points to consciousness existing beyond the bra...
Science and the City - The Mechanics Behind the Metropo...
Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don...
The Great Leveler - Violence and the History of Inequal...
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced...
The Strange Little Monster And The Swamp Goblin - Aussi...
Sasha is different from other monsters. All she wants ...
The Body Keeps the Score - Mind, Brain and Body in the ...
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, thei...
Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal
Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal - Univ...
Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
Science in the 20th Century and Beyond - University textbook...
Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the ...
Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the Mind ...
Endure - Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits o...
From the National Magazine Award-winning Runners World col...
The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Maki...
The Feeling of What Happens: Body, Emotion and the Making of...
What is This Thing Called Science? an Assessment of the...
What is This Thing Called Science? an Assessment of the Natu...
The Cosmic Serpent - DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
For ten years, Jeremy Narby explored the Amazonian rain fore...
The Biology of Belief - Unleashing the Power of Conscio...
This 10th-anniversary edition of Bruce Lipton s best-selling...
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Nathalia Buttface and the Most Embarrassing Dad in the World
At last something laugh-out-loud funny for girls in this hilarious new series from TV and radio comedy writing talent Nigel Smith. The Most Embarrassing Dad in the World was embarrassing Nathalia even before she was born. He went and married Mum, didnt he? Mums last name was De Montfort. Thanks to Dad she wasnt Nathalia De Montfort. She was Nathalia Bumole.Its pronounced Bew-mow-lay, ...
The Fabric of the Cosmos - Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas Financial TimesI thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended the Independent (Greene) send(s) the readers imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride. As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator the New Yor...
The Key - The heartwrenching new pageturner from the #1 bestselling author of The Letter
From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter Kathryn Hughes comes The Key, an unforgettable story of a heartbreaking secret that will stay with you for ever. Riveting Lesley Pearse on The Letter. Gripping Good Housekeeping on The Secret. 1956 Its Ellen Crosbys first day at work as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young girl committed by her father,...
Endure - Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
`This book is AMAZING! MALCOLM GLADWELL `If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinsons Endure. BEAR GRYLLS How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a persons limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, were fasc...
Lillian Armfield - How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face ...
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman Australias first female detective LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydneys organised crime underbelly. Special Constable Lillian Armfield was policing Sydneys mean streets during some of the most dramatic years of crime in the city. By the late 1920s, eastern Sydney was the heartland...
Food & Wine Best of the Best, Volume 18 - The Most Exceptional Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year
The most exceptional recipes from the 25 best cookbooks of the year, as chosen by the experts at Food & Wine magazine.To find the years most outstanding cookbooks, Food & Wine considered hundreds of contenders. Featuring 110 dishes from superstar cooks such as Mario Batali, Alice Medrich, Carla Hall, Tyler Florence, Marcus Samuelsson, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Geoffrey Zakarian, Food & W...
Bearing the Unbearable - Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
If you love, you will grieveand nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearableespecially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, NO! with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinearand often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it ...
Far from the Tree - Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, and one of The New York Times Book Reviews Ten Best Books of 2012, this masterpiece by the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing soa brave, beautiful book that will ...
The Near and the Far - new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them. Its a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. Its post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her foster child, who provokes painful reminders of her past. Its contemporary Bangkok, and a writers encount...
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - A Study of the Chilling Criminal Phenomenon from the Angels of Death to the Zodiac ...
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Second Edition provides accurate, unglamorized information on hundreds of serial murder cases from early history to the present. It includes new major serial killers who have come to light since the first edition was published, as well as many older cases that have been solved, such as the Green River Killer, or further investigated like Jack the Ripper a...
The Body Keeps the Score - Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the worlds experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is o...
A History of the Crusades II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
The second volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams
Steven Runcimans unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of ...
A History of the Crusades III - The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
The third volume of Steven Runcimans classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion Steven Runcimans triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and continue to resonate today. This final volume of the trilogy be...
Medium Raw - A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the authors bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts wh...
The Cupcake Diaries - Katie and the Cupcake Cure
Sometimes starting from scratch turns out to be the icing on the cupcake. Its Katie Browns first day at her new school and shes already feeling miserable. Her best friend Callie has been invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katies been left out in the cold. Is their an Unpopular Girls Club she can join? The only thing that makes Katie feel better is the special cupcake her mum pack...
The New Rules of Work - The ultimate career guide for the modern workplace
The modern playbook to finding the perfect career path, landing the right job, and waking up excited for work every day, from founders of online network TheMuse.com.In todays digital age, finding job listings and endless data about those jobs is easy. Whats difficult is making sense of it all. With The New Rules of Work, Muse founders Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew give us the tool...
The Australian Disease - On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Ils haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped ...
Serpent of Light - Beyond 2012: the Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light
Every 13,000 years on Earth a sacred and secret event takes place that changes everything. Mother Earths Kundalini energy emerges from its resting place in the planets core and moves like a snake across the surface of our world. Once at home in ancient Lemuria, it moved to Atlantis, then to the Himalayan mountains of India and Tibet, and with every relocation changed our idea of what spiritual...
Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africas first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby te...
War on Peace - The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. This is one of the most important books of our time. Walter Isaacson THE NEW YORK TIMES #3 BESTSELLER US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing Americas place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out af...
Barak vs The Black Hats of Melbourne - The untold story of how the Black Hats destroyed Coranderrk
Most Victorians would agree that, yes, European settlement had indeed removed the Wurundjeri from their hunting grounds in the Yarra Valley in the first instance, but surely not from their very last acre later on in 1924.In 1863, after twenty-eight years of dispossession and the death of most of the Colonys first people, a repentant government had returned 4,860 acres of land to its Wurundje...