Increasing Life Chances

What lessons can Australia learn from Israel's start-up friendly economy? Jack Goodman explores the book and its theories in more detail.

McPhee’s much anticipated Draft No.4, On the Writing Process, is both deeply nostalgic and quirkily entertaining. For budding writers it offers an eclectic collection of anecdotes, touchstones and mud-maps, alongside earnest encouragement for those immersed in the sometimes brutal process of “knitting a novel”, writes Mike Larsen.

Enjoy the festive season with a good book - or ten! Reading ebooks is an easy and environmentally friendly way to absorb tonnes of knowledge, keep your brain entertained, and improve your vocabulary while you're at it.

What better time than to lose yourself in a novel! Reading will not only keep your brain stimulated over the break, but it will help with creative thinking, improve your vocabulary and simply provide you with a wonderful form of entertainment or inspiration.

We're all cyborg-gods who don't know how to adapt to change, says Yuval Noah Harari in his sequel to Sapiens, Homo Deus. Let's look deeper into this, shall we?

A quick look at The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, in relation to the connectivity of what we do.

Some musings on Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

These holidays why not try reading something new? We’ve put together our list of favourite books from when we were growing up, for your holiday inspiration.

Today is a sad day, as it marks the passing of Sir Terry Pratchett. To call him an author is to barely scratch the surface. He wrote over 70 books, more than 40 of them in the famous Discworld series.