In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies by David Rieff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independ ...Show more
A Country Too Far by Rosie; Keneally Scott
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"I don't think I've seen a more impressive collection of Australian writers in a single book.'aStephen Romei,aThe Australian One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven ...Show more
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselve ...Show more
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent inti ...Show more
Psychology Squared (100 Concepts You Should Know) by Christopher Sterling
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: 100 Concepts You Should Know
Psychology is one of the most important applied sciences, investigating everything from the way we interact with each other to the means by which we perceive and interpret the world around us. This is vital to self-understanding, but to the outsider psychological concepts can all too often seem like a b ...Show more
On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind by London Library
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
"Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity - that dreadful tormenting parasite on health and comfort" On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The boo ...Show more
Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth by London Library Staff Contribu
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipation of intellectual and moral power. Its consequence is exhaustion and nervous collapse. And its symptom is Hurry" Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth is par ...Show more
Putin Country by Anne Garrels
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's coll ...Show more
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing expose of dirty money and the drug trade reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world. "The most important book of the year ...Here it is, laid bare: cartel as corporation, corporation as cartel; cocaine as ...Show more
FORTY-NINE STEPS by CALASSO ROBERTO SHEPLEY JOHN
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution. In this first translation of his mo ...Show more
Against Remembrance by David Rieff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hat ...Show more
The Devil: A New Biography by Philip C. Almond
31.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has throughout the ages and across civilizations been ...Show more