The Tree by Richard Woldendorp

$45.00 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

Trees are the biggest plants on earth, and its longest living species. In this spectacular volume, acclaimed landscape photographer Richard Woldendorp AM explores Australian trees of all shapes and sizes. From abstract close-ups to aerials, Woldendorp's images reveal the beauty and wonder of trees.Forew ord by Piers Verstegen. ...Show more

Be More Wonder Woman by DK

$14.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

Learn how to be the best you can be and make no apologies! What would Wonder Woman do? Wonder Woman is a strong leader known for her sense of justice, kindness, and fearlessness. Join the universe's most famous Amazonian as she and her allies face adversity, battle their foes, and encourage those around them to live up to their full potential. Packed with iconic scenes, inspiring quotes, and uncanny tips from the popular comic series, Be More Wonder Woman is the perfect gift for friends, family, and colleagues who need guidance on how to take charge, claim their powers, and lead by example! All DC characters and elements © & (tm) DC Comics. (s20) ...Show more

A Ladybird Book about Donald Trump by Jason Hazeley; Joel Morris

$19.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts | Series: Ladybirds for Grown-Ups

A Ladybird Book about Donald Trump- A charming introduction to the President of the United States, the important jobs he has to do, and the friends he's made all over the world. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with th e world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. ...Show more

100 Postcards from Austen to Zola by None

$29.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

Since its launch with The Odyssey in 1946, Penguin Classics has become the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, Postcards from Penguin Classics is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere. Here you will find Shakespeare, Austen, Balzac, Ibsen, Virgil, Chekhov, Gaskell, Dickens, Bronte, Nietzche, Wells, Confucius, Keko, Keats and more. ...Show more

Crystal Wisdom by CHARMAN Rachelle

$14.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

Crystal Wisdom is a deck of inspirational mini-cards, capturing the beauty and wisdom of our Earth's crystals. These 40 cards represent universal messages of love from the inner symbols and spirit of crystals, allowing its inspirations to connect across all ages and walks of life. The cards can be draw n to inspire jolts of creative ideas, for self-healing meditation and as an oracle for guidance. ...Show more

Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith

$24.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts | Series: Wellcome Ser.

An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt, from time to time, at news of others' misfortunes. You might feel schadenfreude when... the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter. a cool guy swings back on his chair, and it tips over. a Celebrity Vegan is caught in the cheese aisle. an aggressive driver cuts you off - and then gets pulled over. your co-worker heats up fish in the microwave, then gets food poisoning. an urban unicyclist almost collides with a parked car. someone cuts the line for the ATM - and then it swallows their card. your effortlessly attractive friend gets dumped.   We all know the pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune. The Germans named this furtive delight in another's failure schadenfreude (from schaden damage, and freude, joy), and it has perplexed philosophers and psychologists for centuries. Why can it be so satisfying to witness another's distress? And what, if anything, should we do about it?   Schadenfreude illuminates this hidden emotion, inviting readers to reflect on its pleasures, and how we use other people's miseries to feel better about ourselves. Written in an exploratory, evocative form, it weaves examples from literature, philosophy, film, and music together with personal observation and historical and cultural analysis. And in today's world of polarized politics, twitter trolls and "sidebars of shame," it couldn't be timelier.   Engaging, insightful, and entertaining, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about the role this much-maligned emotion plays in our lives -- perhaps even embracing it.   ...Show more

The Office Playing Cards

$17.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

Your favorite characters from Dunder Mifflin Paper Company have assembled to appear on this deck of high-quality playing cards.   It's time to bring the world of Dunder Mifflin to your card nights with The Office Playing Cards. If you don't love The Office, the chances are you don't actually have a pu lse and should seek immediate medical treatment. It's the greatest sitcom ever made, period. That's why we're making these celebratory (and practical) playing cards, to immortalize our undying love for The Office.   Printed on high-quality card material, this deck is a standard poker set, with the four classic suits. Each suit celebrates our favorite characters from The Office. Regional Manager Dwight Schrute is spades; the lovebirds Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly represent clubs; Ryan Howard takes diamonds; and Michael Scott is hearts because, well, we just love to love him. But of course, it's Creed Bratton himself who is the joker of the deck. ...Show more

Time to Wine Down

$16.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene - True Stories, Illustrated by Tallulah Pomeroy

$26.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

One day, the artist Tallulah Pomeroy overhead a conversation between two girls about another friend of theirs they knew in college. Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she'd drunkenly 'done a shit in the sink.' 'She's not a girl if she did that,' said one to the other. 'Sh e may have a vagina, but she's not a girl.' This exchange made Tallulah laugh, but it also made her think. How many things had her friends done that meant they 'weren't girls?' She made a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their 'unladylike' behaviors. The page was soon flooded with more stories than she could have ever imagined- about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas. It became a community of honest, funny, and supportive women, who, by admitting to things they'd thought were shameful, no longer had to feel ashamed. For A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of those Facebook posts - plus dozens more from an expanded call for submissions - to create an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world. ...Show more

Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are by C. J Frick

$19.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

For dog owners and dog lovers everywhere, a humorous, fully illustrated book that shows us that even when we feel at our worst, our dogs still think we?re the best - so start acting like it! With more than forty full-colour illustrations from The New Yorker?s Liza Donnelly, Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are reminds us just why our canine companions want us as their best friend. Hilarious, heartfelt, and howlingly clever, this book is sure to find a welcome home on any bookshelf, right next to the chew toys. ...Show more

Chaser Quarterly: Issue 16: The the Chaser's Book of Modern Fairy Tales by The Chaser

$19.95 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

Written by Australia's top comedy writers, each tale investigates a current topic that you can read to your kids to teach them about how morality actually works nowadays. - Why it's alright to take money from dead people - Why you shouldn't tell anyone about a horrible man if he's more powerful and well connected than you - Why you should accept gold coins to not talk about rising water levels Tales include- The Woman Who Told the Truth A woman travels from a distant land to visit the King to tell him of a terrible tale about one of his courtiers. Many years before, she says, this courtier was mean and horrible to her. He drank too much, and played weird vomiting games with his friends. He was not a good man, he was a very, very bad man. But when the woman told the King this, he went to the courtier to get his version of events. The courtier was not a charming man, he was not a smart man, but he was very well connected, and he told the King another tale about why the King should just ignore the woman. The King immediately banished the woman from the kingdom, and everyone lived happily ever after (except the woman). Archimedes And His Bath Archimedes was getting into his bath one day when he realised that the water level was rising higher and higher. Eventually he worked out what was happening - a large block of ice was melting into the bath. All he had to do was move the ice away from the stove. But just as he was about to do that, Archimedes was offered a gold coin from charming prince, and told that as long as he did nothing about the melting ice, he would be rewarded with lots of riches. Eventually Archimedes drowns, but he drowns and rich and happy man. The Dead Man Thief The tale of the peasant child who was discovered breaking into houses and taking money from families while they were at the funeral of their loved ones. He was discovered, and taken before the King for punishment, who instead promoted him to become a CEO of a major bank. ...Show more

Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Jong-Un and Friends by Rob Sears

$24.99 AUD

Category: Little Gifts

There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes. Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk's nanobots? Driven collective ly insane by Russia's most potent memes? Or smashed to atoms by someone sitting on the wrong button in North Korea? In this book, YOU will meet the leaders with the future of civilisation in their hands. And YOUR wits and judgement will decide how we all inevitably die. Or then again, maybe, just maybe, with a little positive thinking, YOU will find a way to keep us all safe long enough to expire of old age and global warming instead. Just don't get too hopeful. On every page of Choose Your Own Apocalypse with Kim Jong-un & Friends, the end of your choice is most definitely nigh. ...Show more