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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
What does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more
Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell --Jenny Offill"Fascinating...Oddly uplifting" --The EconomistSmart, funny, irreverent, and philosophically rich --Wall Street Journal By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense--and c ...Show more
The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs by Dr. Mark O'Connell, PhD
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster classic science fiction epic film, and made a nation want to believe in UFOs. In June 1947, private pilot Kenneth Ar ...Show more
To Be a Machine - Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O'Connell
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology-of our senses, intelligence, and life spans-with technology. Its supporters have reached a critical mass and now include some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and beyond, among them Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Ray Kurzweil. In this pro ...Show more
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