Four Times Through the Labyrinth by Olaf Nicolai
25.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This book on labyrinths is wonderful! It enlarges the traditional catalog of labyrinth so much and so well, being itself labyrinthine.
Rock, Paper, ScissorsGame Theory in Everyday Life by Len Fisher
27.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in na ...Show more
The Shallows : How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understand ...Show more
The Public City by Brendan Gleeson
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Paul Mees' urban ideal counted on watchful, confident and well-informed citizenry to work collectively in a quest for fair and just cities. As such, The Public City is largely a critique of neo-liberalism and its arguably negative influence on urban prospects. As Mees explained it, neo-liberal urbanism ...Show more
18 Days: Al Jazeera English and the Egyptian Revolution by Scott Bridges
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This is the story of a plucky newsroom in the middle of an anonymous Middle Eastern desert city that through its coverage of one huge story changed the rules of 24-hour TV news. On February 11, 2011, President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule of Egypt came to an end after 18 days of massive and unprece ...Show more
One-dimensional Woman by Nina Power
26.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Where have all the interesting women gone? If the contemporary portrayal of womankind were to be believed, contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags, a vibrator, a job, a flat and a man. Of course, no one has to believe the TV shows, the magazines and adverts ...Show more
Fury - Women Write About Sex, Power and Violence by Samantha Trenoweth
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Australia violence against women is a silent epidemic. By the age of 15 almost 20% of women have experienced sexual violence and more than one in three have experienced physical violence. One woman dies every week due to domestic violence in Australia. Violence against women is the leading contributo ...Show more
Northern Lights: The Positive Policy Example of Sweden, Finland, Denmark & Norway by Andrew Scott
39.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Public Policy Ser.
The nations of Scandinavia and Finland, or Nordic Europe, continue to provide living proof that economic prosperity can be combined with social equality and environmental responsibility. This book, written from an Australian perspective, explores previous outside policy interest in the Nordic nations an ...Show more
The Third Teacher by OWP/P Architects
39.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Explores the critical link between the school environment and how children learn. Suitable for those who have school-age children in their life, from educators and education decision-makers to parents and community activists, this book intends to ignite a blaze of discussion and initiative about environ ...Show more
Drone Theory by Grégoire Chamayou
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare. In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world. Drawing on philosophical debate, ...Show more
Minority Policy Rethinking Governance When Parliament Matters by Richard/Prosser, Brenton Denniss
59.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Topical and up-to-the-minute, Minority Policy: Rethinking governance when parliament matters explores the influence of marginal parliamentarian both within the major parties and on the cross benches in the formations of contemporary public policy. Despite Australia having minority government in some for ...Show more
Alter-Politics by Ghassan Hage
59.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of ine ...Show more