Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author - On Storytelling, Business, and Literature by Philipp Schönthaler; Amanda DeMarco (Translator)
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations. Corporations love a good story. Microsoft employs a chief storyteller, who heads a team of twenty-five corporate storytellers. IBM, Coca-Cola, and the World B ...Show more
In a Different Voice - Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into ...Show more
The Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Thought by Sunzi
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
America: the Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair-drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate America, says Pul ...Show more
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the world famous author of In The Name of the Rose, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, bro ...Show more
Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong by David Edmonds
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he wil ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Politics and Culture Ser.
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state o ...Show more
Sympathy for the Traitor - a Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty--summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is t ...Show more