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
And the Band Played On by SHILTS RANDY
45.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, "And The Band Played" on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was al ...Show more
Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.... The author's crisp, imagi ...Show more
The Artificial Intelligence Contagion - Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth and the Social Order? by David Barnhizer; Daniel Barnhizer
60.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Artificial Intelligence Contagion examines the ominous social impact of as many as half the world's workers in the US, EU, China and Japan being replaced by AI/Robotics within the next 30 years. Jobs are already being lost across the spectrum, from the most intellectual to basic areas of services an ...Show more
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
29.05 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those c ...Show more
The Dostoevsky Effect - Problem Gambling and the Origins of Addiction by Lorne Tepperman; Patrizia Albanese; Sasha Stark; Nadine Zahlan
69.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
When writing his novella The Gambler in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky remained true to the old adage "write what you know." Critically acclaimed for its insight into the mind of a gambling addict, the book offers a fascinating glimpse into Dostoevsky's personal struggle with gambling. Themanuscript, in fact, ...Show more
Uncontained - Digital Disconnection and the Experience of Time by Robert Hassan
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Author Robert Hassan believes that we are 'trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction', and that the time we spend on screens is draining more from us than hours in the day. With the increasing amount of attention that digital devices demand, diminishing our capacity for reflection, there is le ...Show more
Crack - Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber
36.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcer ...Show more
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Cultural Criticism. In THE WORD PRETTY Elisa Gabbert brings together humor and observational intelligence to create a roving and curious series of lyrical essays on writing, reading, and living. Combining elements of criticism, meditation, and personal essay ...Show more
Incerto Box Set by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
80.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes - Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, a ...Show more
A Map Is Only One Story - Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Search for Belonging by Nicole Chung (Editor); Mensah Demary (Editor)
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies ...Show more